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Getting Help 

Contact the OIT Technology Support Center

Walk-in Support: Technology Support Center, Clough Building, Rm 215
Hours: 8:00am - 6:00pm, Monday-Friday
Phone number: 404-894-7173 - Hours: 8:00am - 5:00pm, Monday-Friday
Web Help Request:  http://www.remedy.gatech.edu/support

Overview 

BuzzPort is a Georgia Tech campus portal with features designed to help students, faculty, and staff interact more effectively with Georgia Tech services and with campus colleagues. The portal integrates and organizes online communications and resources that can be used in everyday tasks. You can customize BuzzPort for your needs, such as news coverage, reminders, chat rooms, and study groups. You can customize the layout by adding, removing, and rearranging tabs and channels.

Features of this Service

MyGaTech email. BuzzPort provides easy access to MyGaTech email, your primary campus email service.

Calendar. BuzzPort provides a Web-based calendar via MyGaTech  that you can use to create and manage personal calendars, access course calendars to view information added by course instructors, and access calendars for any online groups that you have joined.

Groups. BuzzPort allows individuals at Georgia Tech to request the creation of online groups and maintain homepages for these groups containing resources like photo albums, Internet links, news articles, and applications like message boards, chat rooms, and calendars.

Message boards. BuzzPort provides a message board for each class in which you are enrolled or that you are assigned to teach. Depending on the privileges allocated to a group, message boards may also be available to groups for which you are a member.

Chat. BuzzPort provides a chat room for each class in which you are enrolled or that you are assigned to teach. Depending on the privileges allocated to a group, chat rooms may also be available to groups for which you are a member.

Administrative. Students and faculty can access OSCAR to do things like check grades, register for classes, and change personal information displayed in the Georgia Tech directory. Some users have permission to perform administrative functions in the system, including creating and sending targeted announcements, and creating and maintaining content on default system pages or channels.

Service Lead
Name 
Greg Huseth
Email 
greg.huseth@oit.gatech.edu
Phone 
404-385-4180