College of Saint Mary has a legacy of academic excellence stretching back more than 80 years, but our use of technology is anything but a thing of the past. We strive to provide our students with an exciting and engaging educational experience through the use of new and innovative technologies.

The Institutional Technology Department provides technical services such as the maintenance of the campus data network, telephone system, computer systems, computer labs, and servers at College of Saint Mary. We also offer centralized support, training, and consulting concerning both academic and administrative technology needs to the campus community.

Being that our course offerings are a mix of online, hybrid, and web-enhanced, our campus has one unified online learning platform, ANGEL. All of our online and hybrid courses are required to use ANGEL, but even some of our on-the-ground courses have even begun to use the system, which is why they are called web-enhanced. ANGEL allows our instructors to take a creative and student-focused approach to their instruction through the use of threaded discussions, online rubrics, and electronic grading, and ANGEL promotes the concept of being “green” by having students submit their work via digital drop boxes.

Another technology that our students find great benefit in is the Tegrity Lecture Capture System. The Tegrity software allows instructors to record their lectures and have them available for playback by their students. Through the use of a webcam, the instructor’s video and audio is captured by the software, as well as the information being presented on the computer. Students are able to login to the Tegrity system online and review lectures at their own convenience. We are proud to say that we were the first University in Nebraska to use Tegrity!

Along with these technologies, we have our MyCSM portal that allows for campus-wide communication from faculty and staff to our students, and we also have our Self Service application which is used for things such as registration and advising. In addition, we have the ability to conduct webcasts with Skype, which allows our distance education students the ability to still be a part of community.

Although we are growing in terms of the technology that we have to offer our students, we are a University that focuses on an individual, small-class, personalized approach to learning. We have adopted a single-sign-on process so students only need to remember one username and password to utilize these technologies. The great thing about all of them is that they are accessible from home!