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Online Semester Survival Guide

TA Resources

The computer science department has a bunch of awesome TAs that are available to help with lower division classes like CS 101, CS 149, CS 159, CS 227, etc. They also run weekly review sessions for several of these courses. For the online semester, they are using Microsoft Teams to organize TA hours and connect with students. You can find information on when the TAs are available and how to connect with them at the TA Hours/Review Sessions page.

Accessing Campus Computing Resources

Many of the computing services used in CS classes, like Autolab, require that your computer either be on the campus network or connected through a VPN. For students who are not currently living on campus, the best thing to do is to run Pulse Secure VPN to connect your computer to the campus network. The library has detailed text-based instructions for installing Pulse Secure VPN on Windows and Mac. JMU IT also has a External page of instructions that includes screenshots. For Linux and ChromeOS users, we have compiled our own instructions.