Distance Learning Tools
City Tech Virtual Resources
City Tech Learn Anywhere Link
OpenLab
The OpenLab is City Tech’s open online community. Students, faculty, and staff can sign up using a City Tech email address. Students use the OpenLab for working in courses and projects, student clubs, and portfolios.
- OpenLab Help
- OpenLab Virtual Office Hours for help using the OpenLab
- OpenLab Advice and Support: openlab@citytech.cuny.edu
CUNYfirst
Activate Your Email
To activate student City Tech email, click here.
Accessing City Tech email
Zoom Live Meeting Sessions
Zoom is a video communications medium, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars.
- Class Meeting Zoom https://zoom.us/j/6514712173
Meeting ID: 651 471 2173
Course Drives
- Class Dropbox
- Free drop box space form CUNY https://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/cis/technology-services/dropbox/
- Google Drive Google account for 15 GB Space
- Free space for cuny
Software: Adobe Creative Suite
- InDesign
- Illustrator
- Photoshop
Term-active CUNY students can now download Adobe Creative Cloud applications to their personal devices. Students can go to https://creativecloud.adobe.com and use their CUNY Login username to authenticate and select which Adobe Creative Cloud applications to install.
The student instructions on Accessing Adobe Creative Cloud are available online and will be available from the IT Resources for Remote Work & Teaching page.
Hardware
- Computer with internet access
- Flash drive (or online storage for your files)
Student Device Loan Request Form
- Department has a limited about of iMacs request through this link to loan.
- Remote Desktop Client on all of the COMD Computers on campus
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd1127-type-media-ol39-f20/2020/08/26/remote-login-to-comd-c0mpters/ - Remote login to utilize department onsite computers as a remote workspace, will have Creative Suite this link
- They require a special user login ID
- For students who own a computer, Chromebook, or otherwise but no Adobe and need the apps.
- Remote login into classroom computers 24/7 and use them.
- Students MUST MUST save all work on a cloud solution, Microsoft One Drive (1TB per student), Google Drive, or DropBox.
- Student must NEVER NEVER shut down the computer, only log out.
- Link here step by set by step
Microsoft Office 365
To access Microsoft Office 365 (using City Tech email), for online access to the Microsoft Office Suite and other applications: https://login.microsoftonline.com.
Note: Email login (ending with @mail.citytech.cuny.edu) is different from CUNY login (ending with @login.cuny.edu)