Our Offerings

The Affordable Learning Exchange (ALX) uses a multi-pronged approach to support faculty who wish to explore affordable alternatives to expensive textbooks and course materials.

Stay connected and productive with an audio conferencing service that allows several people in different locations to participate in a real-time conversation. 

Broadcast Transmission Services provides national transmission of live, commercial broadcasts for sports and media events on campus utilizing campus infrastructure to connect with Vyvx services.

BuckeyeBox will be retired in 2021 and data will be migrated to Microsoft OneDrive. Ohio State uses Box.com to offer faculty, staff and students an easy way to store and share files online.

BuckeyePass (powered by DUO) is a multifactor authentication service provided to Ohio State faculty, staff, students and student employees. It helps protect your account even if your password is stolen.

Call Center Services provide a complete customer interaction solution for campus colleges and departments.

CarmenZoom is the academic audio and web conferencing solution for Ohio State. CarmenZoom provides faculty, students and instructional staff with all the functionality of a Zoom pro account that includes up to 300 participants in a meeting, CarmenCanvas integration and the ability to request webinar spaces.

Classroom Services provides on-demand support services to our classrooms at no cost, including classroom technology support, technology equipment loan and routing/addressing all classroom related issues, including HVAC, lighting and furniture concerns.

Collibra is a business glossary, data catalog and data dictionary that hosts a repository of information on university and Wexner Medical Center data.

Enterprise Security works to ensure that users adapt safe practices when they use technology to keep their information safe as well as securing the data entrusted to The Ohio State University.

The Cybersecurity for You (C4U) awareness platform provides cybersecurity training and awareness on topics that help you in role at the university and beyond. You'll earn points while learning which can be redeemed for rewards.

Data Privacy Days provide information about university privacy strategy and practices as well as opportunities to share your ideas, ask questions and collaborate with others from across the university.

Databas Services provides a range of database packages that all include an SQL Server instance and a database, daily backups, monitoring, patching, encryption and compliance.

Digital Flagship is a comprehensive, university-wide digital learning initiative to support educational innovation for students and economic development opportunities for the community, including a Swift Coding and App Development Certificate Program and a Mobile Design Lab.

We work alongside colleges to develop distance education programs. We'll be with you through the program development and approval process and beyond.

Endpoint Defense service offers an agent-based solution to detect and stop the spread of malicious software threats (virus, malware, adware, etc). A centrally-hosted management console provides agent configuration management and malware activity reporting.

The eSignature service allows users to collect electronic signatures that are secure and legally binding. Electronic signatures are obtained using web-based software from a university-approved external vendor, DocuSign, that allow users to quickly and securely prepare, send, sign and manage documents on a computer instead of using paper forms.

Extended Education offers admission assistance and academic advising for adult students who want to take undergraduate courses and are not currently interested in earning a degree from Ohio State.

Find People is a web-based university directory that allows users to search for and view published information of employees, students and sponsored guests.

The Group Management Service is an access management platform supporting distributed and automated access controls for university applications.

Innovate is an annual conference that brings together educators, administrators and tech industry professionals to explore recent advancements, best practices and provocative approaches to teaching and learning with technology.

The ServiceNow environment allows you to perform many different IT Service Management tasks including managing assets, incidents, requests and changes.

Log Management Hosting supports department and college server administrators who manage large volumes of machine data (aka audit records, event logs, etc.). This service includes an initial consultation, access to the Splunk web console with powerful analytic capabilities, training and technical support.

Managed IT Services (MITS) provides Ohio State units with consistent service from IT experts and more secure services while reducing operating costs and allowing you to focus on the technology necessary for your unique unit.

Microsoft 365 allows the university to collaborate through one cloud platform delivering a wide range of productivity apps. Access email with Outlook, store and share files on OneDrive, communicate with your coworkers or students through Teams, create documents with Word, Excel and PowerPoint, and so much more.

This service allows you to conduct university business on the go through university-owned smartphones, tablets and Wi-Fi hotspots for Ohio State departments with service through AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon.

Ohio State makes custom apps with your experience in mind. From your first days on campus to your lifelong Buckeye connection, these apps put Ohio State in your pocket. Easily access tools to get around, get business done and get connected to communities across campus and beyond.

The Ohio State University provides wireless network services for Ohio State students, faculty, staff and guests.

The Privacy Program's mission is to cultivate our community’s long-standing trust that Ohio State collects, uses and shares personal information transparently and appropriately.

Program 60 is a tuition-free, noncredit, non-degree program available for Ohioans age 60 or older. Program 60 participants may attend Ohio State courses on an instructor permission, space-available, audit basis.

ScarletCanvas is Ohio State's Learning Management System for public-facing, non-credit offerings. ScarletCanvas allows Ohio State units to provide online course registration and delivery by leveraging a combination of Instructure’s Canvas and Catalog tools. Through ScarletCanvas, colleges and units can offer continuing education, including professional and workforce development courses and other non-credit programming, to learners without requiring admission to the university.

The Security Portal provides an interface with Enterprise Security for notifcations, reports, logs and tools to assist your security efforts.

This service provides an Ohio State username (lastname.#) to guests of the university so they may access university systems including CarmenCanvas, OSU Wireless and OSU Libraries.

This services allows you to request Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificates at no cost to enable encrypted web traffic to and from your site.

The Streaming Music Service (powered by Muzak) provides workspace background music in campus buildings to help energize and inspire students, faculty or staff at any Ohio State campus location.

The Teaching and Learning Resource Center, a partnership with units from across the university, is a website for Ohio State educators seeking to enhance their teaching skills and support student success. Browsing the site, you’ll find teaching and learning strategies and examples, learning opportunities from across the university, and extensive documentation on Ohio State’s eLearning toolset.

This service provides telephone services for outside entities that are not affiliated with The Ohio State University, such as construction trailers or vendors providing services within Ohio State buildings.

A third-party risk assessment is required of any system or service, managed by a third-party, that stores, processes, or transmits Ohio State institutional data. The purpose of the assessment is to identify risks of utilizing the cloud service and recommend controls that might mitigate or reduce these risks. 

U.OSU is the university's easy-to-use professional website platform. Use your site to share your independent work, host course assignments, enhance project visibility, communicate within groups and represent your organizations.

The University Code Repository (UCR) is a software repository management platform based on git. UCR was created as a tool to provide a university-wide resource for code management, code review and general collaboration for software projects at Ohio State.

The Vulnerability Management service provides a mechanism for all units at Ohio State to identify and measure risks to their infrastructure created by outdated or vulnerable software and improper configuration.

The Web Single Sign-On service (also known by the software name "Shibboleth") offers a standard set of authentication and authorization services to web-based applications. It allows websites and web-based applications to authenticate users by means of “name.#” accounts and provides access to useful institutional data about users at the time of login.