With the increasing use of tablets within the School, this policy outlines what is supported by computing services.
In order to support our users this policy may change as the market demand changes, please email us at socit@uci.edu with any questions you may have.
All Social Ecology (SE) faculty and staff (employees) are required to return UCI-owned computers, including desktops, laptops, and tablets, to SE Computing for decommissioning that are either (1) non-functioning or (2) at the end of their useful life. SE employees are further required, upon their resignation, retirement, or termination from the School, to return all UCI-owned computers, including desktops, laptops, and tablets, to SE Computing for either decommissioning or redeployment.
Note for Apple Users: Any Apple equipment being returned must be removed from your Apple ID account to allow SE Computing/campus to wipe the drives. Follow these links for instructions:
All faculty profiles for the School of Social Ecology are now hosted on the Faculty Websites platform (opens in a new window) .
Use Faculty Websites to create a simple, editable site using WordPress — no web-development experience is required. Everything is managed through your web browser.
Within the School of Social Ecology you may need to login to various websites for the purpose of editing pages, editing your faculty profile information, editing your graduate student profile information and access restricted pages on our intranet. In order to login to any site you must have a registered and approved account. You can request access by completing the website login request form on the Computing Services website. Once submitted, your information will be reviewed for account approval.
If you have not logged into the Social Ecology websites and believe you qualify for a website login in order to update information, please fill out the form below. The websites throughout the School of Social Ecology provide access to the following groups:
All computing equipment paid for with University funds should be approved by our office before any hardware purchases are made. We check to make sure any equipment you are considering will work within the limits of the campus network and that it will effectively meet your needs. In some cases we have access to better equipment at a lesser price. If you are planning on purchasing new computer equipment, please email Computing Services at se.computing@uci.edu with specific details about what you would like to buy, and we will advise and/or prepare an equote. All Computing Support equotes include warranties. Keep in mind all hardware purchases, must include a 4 year warranty (PC) or AppleCare+ for Education (Mac).
Individual UCInetIDs are granted to each member of the faculty, staff, and student population at UCI. For the duration of your relationship with UCI, you will use your individual UCInetID regularly to access important online services, one example would be accessing email services.
The Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides email accounts for all faculty. Social Ecology supports Microsoft Office 365.
Research accounts are usually set up by Faculty members, shared by a group of researchers.
To login use your assigned login ID, password, and in the third field select "SOCECO."
If there is a need to reset the account password or any other related requests, please ask the appropriate Faculty member to contact Social Ecology Computing Support for the reset.
Computer viruses are an ongoing problem across the Internet. OIT now scans incoming email for viruses and cleans up infected messages. This protection is available only to messages sent to your @UCI.EDU address. SE Computing installs McAfee anti-virus for the Macs and uses built in Microsoft Defender for PC's for anti-virus protection. If you believe your anti-virus is out of date please send an email to se.computing@uci.edu. Here are some tips to prevent from being infected by viruses: