Students have given McGill’s campus technology the highest grade of any university in Canada. McGill University received an A — a campus technology grade unmatched by 15 other large Canadian universities. The results were published in The Globe and Mail’s Canadian University Report 2010.
These results mark the second consecutive year that McGill’s campus technology has received top honours from students. For an illustration of the important ways in which current technologies are serving McGill students, please see the Student IT experience at McGill in 2010, a web page devoted to key facts and figures on the delivery of IT services today on campus.
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Graph: There is always a drop after start of term, which is a known peak for traffic on the IT Knowledge Base. 2008 recorded an even more pronounced ebb, with a drop in traffic from September to October that was slightly over 50 per cent. 
Graph: Monthly Visitors to the IT Knowledge Base (The hits for configuring Wireless for Mac OS X increased again this month. IT Frontline Services will be looking to identify more useful topics to support the Mac user-base in the coming months: 
Graph: Monthly Visitors to the IT Knowledge Base (Rise in hits for configuring Wireless for Mac OS X, in comparison to configuring Wireless for Windows, could suggest that the number of new students and faculty with Macs is rising too.)
As Manager of Research Computing, Roland is never lost in the passages of the NCS datacentre in the Burnside Hall basement. 