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Faculty and Staff

The Law Center’s Information Technology department provides the following services for Faculty and Staff:

Contact Information and Hours for Faculty and Staff Support

  • Hours: Monday through Friday 8:00am to 5:00pm
  • Phone: 713.743.2260

Adjunct Information

The UH Law Center Discussion boards are a web based software application that allows you to post documents and interact with students outside of the classroom.

Examples of the types of conferences below:

Types of Conferences and Messages

Any board on a WebBoard site can have four different types of conferences:

  • Public conferences let anyone read and post messages.
  • Moderated conferences have one or more persons exercising editorial control. Anyone can post, but the messages may be reviewed before being posted. A moderated conference helps keep discussions focused.
  • Private conferences are limited to specific users who are authorized to read and post messages. Private conferences allow you to discuss confidential or nondisclosure topics, such as new products being developed. Private conferences appear in the Conferences list only for authorized users.
  • Read-only conferences distribute official information to WebBoard users, such as company policies or product announcements and updates. You can read, but you can’t post messages to a read-only conference.

These conference types can also be mixed. For example, an administrator might create a private, read-only conference for a company’s accounting group to post financial data for executive managers. Or, a private conference might also have a moderator to move the discussion along.

FAQ

How do I Reset my COUGARNET Password?

If you are on campus, the easiest and quickest way to change your cougarnet password is by logging in to your computer. Press CTRL + ALT + DEL keys and choose the option for "Change Password."

However, if you are not on campus, please change your password here.
For information on the UH Strong Password Standard, click here.

How do I setup a UH Central E-Mail Account?

E-mail accounts are created in conjuction with a COUGARNET account. Central e-mail accounts will be used to receive information about law center events, announcements, and communication from University Employees.

All mailboxes have a 250 MB quota of storage. Once you hit the 225 MB mark, you will receive a notification that you are close to your quota mark. Once you exceed your quota, you will not be able to send or receive messages until you bring your mailbox under 25MB.The quota includes all folders in your mailbox: inbox, sent items, deleted items, and folders you create. Faculty/Staff may request additional space if they exceed their quota.

Why do I need the Virtual Private Network (VPN) ?

UH Virtual Private Network (VPN) is a utility which provides a secured connection for your computer. The VPN prevents your data from being intercepted while it is in route to the destination computer. The VPN client has the same functions as a firewall, therefore while the VPN client is running, you must turn off your firewall, or allow IPSec through on your firewall.

In order to get to any Law Library resources on the internet, you must have the O'Quinn Law Library VPN client running.

Additionally, if you are trying to access network resources (your H: drive, e-mail via Outlook client) while you are off campus, you must have the UH VPN client running.

What is a H drive?

Each faculty/staff member is alloted a personal network share (H: drive) which is limited to amount of space available on the server.

This share is scanned for viruses and backed up daily by the central IT department.

How do I map network drive?

How do I map to a Law Center Printer?

Why do I need Virus Protection?

Viruses and worms can affect computers in different ways. They can infect files which might be required to run applications on your computer or even system files which is the core of the operating systems. It can also infect the boot-sectors (the starting of the Hard disk). The boot-sector is read and executed during computer startup.

Virus protection programs run in the background and look for viruses and worms as the computer user opens files and emails and accesses floppy disks. The virus protection program will alert the user of the infection and ask if it should disinfect. Sometimes the virus or worm can be removed without any harm; other times, it has already done the damage, and the file or disk it infected is corrupted. Be aware that virus protection programs only protect you from known viruses. They do not protect you from new viruses. A new virus can spread unrestricted throughout the world for a couple of days until users start updating their antivirus programs. Self-protection is the key to preventing new viruses from spreading. The UH Law Center recommends that it's users use McAfee VirusScan.

What is CALI and how do I access it?

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit consortium of law schools that researches and develops computer-mediated legal instruction and supports institutions and individuals using technology and distance learning in legal education. As a Faculty/Staff/Student of the UHLC, you may have access to over 800 free, law professor authored legal tutorials online. Please request the authorization code for the CALI site here.