Technical Services

Git project hosting is provided for all students, faculty, and staff at git.cs.dal.ca. This is an Enterprise version of Gitlab for academic use only.  Please email cshelp@cs.dal.ca with any requirements for your upcoming semester at least 4 weeks before start of semester. The CS technical team will assist you with setting up your GitLab environment.

For information on our instance of Gitlab click here.

Computer Sciences uses an OpenStack private cloud environment for courses that require it. Your instructor will inform you if you will require access to it for your coursework. Please email cshelp@cs.dal.ca with any requirements for your upcoming semester at least 4 weeks before start of semester. The CS technical team will assist you with setting up your OpenStack environment.

For information on our OpenStack environment click here.

Timberlea.cs.dal.ca is the general use compute environment for student’s coursework.  You can login with your CSID and password via SSH.

brookside.research.cs.dal.ca:8000 and calvert.research.cs.dal.ca:8000 are equipped with a GeForce RTX 2080 card. These systems run JupyterHub which will allow students to run Python Jupyter notebooks. You can login with your CSID and password via SSH.

For all booking inquiries, please go to the Campus Bookings Website and log in via the top right Login button or read the Booking Process for Lecture Recordings.

**This recording room is currently unavailable for bookings.** 
The faculty provides a recording room for instructors needing to record their lectures for online teaching. This room includes a PC with a 1080p web cam, Blue Yeti mic, a document camera, and white board.  This room can be booked in 3 hour intervals between 10 am and 4 pm Monday through Friday. 

As a student at Dalhousie, you have access to several services to support your technology needs. These services are provided by the Dalhousie IT Services group (ITS). For information on this please click here

These services include:

• Accounts, Passwords, and Access
• Administrative and Ancillary Systems
• Computers, Printers, and Gadgets
• Email and Calendaring
• File Sharing and Storage
• Network Connections
• Teaching Technologies
• Telephone and Web Services

ITS provides a number of software packages for general university use. Specific packages available depend on your account type (student, faculty, staff, etc.)

For student, staff, and faculty with existing access, there are a number of tools made available by ITS Networks and Systems.

Azure Dev Tools for Teaching is a program offered by Microsoft that supplies software and services to eligible students for academic purposes. Students registered in DalFCS Undergraduate programs or DalFCS Graduate programs are eligible to access the program.

Microsoft makes the software available through the Azure Dev Tools for Teaching portal, which you can access using your Dalhousie email address as your Microsoft Account.

New students are automatically enrolled in the program.  To access these tools please click here.