Psychology Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Working Group UW/IST Unified Communications project (new phone system) UW IST Guidance on Artificial Intelligence use University of Waterloo's GenAI Hub I'll be retiring at the end of October, but I'm only in the office for a few more days. Updates going to our Psych Nexus stations Monday September 28 starting at 11:00pm: 7-Zip 26.03 Adobe Acrobat DC 26.002.21931 FileZilla Client 3.71.1 GIMP 3.2.6 Google Chrome 153.0.8010.53 jamovi 2.7.38 K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 20.0.0 Microsoft Edge for Business 153.0.4234.46 Mozilla Firefox 156.0 Notepad++ 8.9.8 OBS Studio 32.2.2 (where requested) PuTTY 0.85 WinSCP 6.5.7 Zoom Workplace 7.1.46825 How a Waterloo Arts student is building better tools for research - JOLIVE, the no-code research platform lets researchers design, customize, and run studies Jacob Oliveira research ISS Newsletter: Honk if You're Secure! September 2026 Waterloo grad designs puzzle for older adults - Olivia Vento Everyone Should Be Able To Enjoy The Playground - Daniela O'Neill, Stephanie Snow, Olivia Vento, Maia Aurini, Catelyn Ritchie, and Aimee Landry The first time you login to a Psych Nexus station, follow these steps to set up your user profile on the machine. old Psych IT requests can be emailed to PsychIT@uwaterloo.ca (you'll need to send with your @uwaterloo.ca account) or use New PsychIT Jira Requests. Check your open requests at My Jira Requests. • Dept News • Dept Events • UwaterlooPsych Twitter • UwaterlooPsych YouTube • ACO News • IST News • IST Status Page • IST KB • MS Status Permanent Weekender fun

Tidbits

• Psychology SharePoint --- Clinical SharePoint --- REG-Sona SharePoint
• Calendar of Events and Academic Deadlines
• REG --- SONA --- Office of Research Ethics --- Research Ethics System login --- myResearch
• Qualtrics:
  1. UW Qualtrics Login - real people accounts (UW credentials)
  2. Generic (non-people) UW Lab Account Qualtrics Login - generic non-people lab accounts (we're in the process of pruning these so not many left).
  3. See also: IST Qualtrics Online Surveys info page --- Qualtrics Online Training Programs --- Collaborating on Projects --- User Groups
• psych-jatos login (email PsychIT@uwaterloo.ca to have an account set up) --- see also: JATOS - Just Another Tool for Online Studies
• Laptop/Projector Bookings - Psych Classroom AV Setups and Troubleshooting
• Local Scholarships Info
• Psychology Staff Vacation Database and notes.
• Safety Spectrum Dashboard - monitor your safety training.
• FORE --- WatProcure --- Unit4 --- Remuneration to Research Participants --- Travel Tip Sheet --- Concur --- Concur User Guide --- Surplus Asset Disposal
• UW Software Licensing --- IST Webstore --- Dell pricing (prices you see will be much higher so email PsychIT@uwaterloo.ca who can login to UW Premier account to get UW pricing on items) ---- CDW (you won't see UW pricing here either so email PsychIT@uwaterloo.ca for UW prices)
• Clinical: Penelope --- time2track --- Q-Global --- OQ --- TRCDB --- TRCDB view only --- email: cmhrt cmhrte cmhrtint
• Grads/Faculty/RAs: AVD (Azure Virtual Desktop). Ensure you load/save files on your OneDrive space --- ACO AVD Instructions --- AVD Connecting to OneDrive --- Your first login to AVD might take several minutes so be patient. Subsequent logins should be quicker if you happen to connect to the same virtual machine. Ensure you login to your OneDrive account (login window might be in the background and ensure you select "Work or school") and store/load files somewhere under your "Onedrive - University of Waterloo" file space. Unfortunately SPSS is not available on the AVD due to budget constraints.

UW Psychology Lists, Notices and Announcements

• Here's the latest Psych Phone List (only available on campus)
• Psych Admin Staff - Who do I ask?
• Psych Mailing Lists --- Always use your UW email address for all UW-related emails.
• Psychology Department News
• Psychology Department Events
• UwaterlooPsych Twitter 
• Seminar schedules for Clinical, Cognition, Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental, I/O and Social.
• GASP ---- GASP Survival Guide ---- GASP Facebook page ---- GASP Calendar ---- GASP First Year Forum

REG - UW Psychology Research Experiences Group

• REG Homepage
• Login to SONA
• Participants Information
• Office of Research Ethics
• Research Ethics System login
• UW Waterloo Copyright Guidelines

Also of interest to Researchers

• UW Office of Research
• NSERC --- SSHRC --- MRC --- NRC --- Community of Science
• UWaterloo Scholar
• UWSpace - Psychology

Answers to Occasionally Asked Questions

...about local stuff:

• Nexus
  • Psych Nexus Notes - including where to store things, how to setup printers (printer drivers), recovering stuff from backups, and reminders to not store things on your desktop. Here's some links to some of the sections:
    1. Storage Space
    2. Nexus User Profile Setup
    3. Printing (printer setup and default)
    4. Printing Problems (w/ delete/re-add a printer)
    5. Printing from wireless
    6. Free Up Space
    7. Backups and Restoring Files/Folders
    8. Accessing Your Nexus Files From Elsewhere
    9. Remote Desktop Access
    10. Preparing for Machine Rebuilds/Replacements
    11. Nexus Laptop Considerations
    12. Avoid Data Collection Interruptions
    13. Reboots
    14. Quick Fixes
    Also, please check the Nexus Security Groups Lists and send me updates for the userids which should be allowed access to your printers and network shares. Send both their full name and UWuserid (not student id#).
  • Nexus Rooms and Printer List
  • Nexus passwords can be changed at WatIAM. If you do change your password, remember to update smartphones, tablets, laptops which might be logging in automatically to Eduroam - potentially, if they have the wrong password, you may be locked out of your account due to failed password attempts against your userid.
• Local Experts We're hoping this will help lighten the load a bit for Michael and myself.. If you are a current member of the Psychology department, here's some Local Experts you can contact who may be able to help you out with questions or problems with various packages. If you are contacting them by email, use your @uwaterloo.ca address so that they can confirm who you are. Requests from people outside the department will be silently ignored - we don't want these kind folks to be overwhelmed and want to avoid them from having to deal with riff-raff from outside of the department.
  • SPSS: Hilary Burbank Bergsieker hburbank@uwaterloo.ca ; Jonathan Oakman jmoakman@uwaterloo.ca ; need more volunteers please
  • AMOS: Hilary Burbank Bergsieker hburbank@uwaterloo.ca ; more volunteers please
  • R: Igor Grossman igrossma@uwaterloo.ca ; more volunteers please
  • Qualtrics: Hilary Burbank Bergsieker hburbank@uwaterloo.ca ; more volunteers please
  • PsychoPy: Mike Dixon mjdixon@uwaterloo.ca
  • E-Prime: need volunteers please
  • Excel: Mike Dixon mjdixon@uwaterloo.ca
  We'd really like to get as many people as possible volunteering here, so if you'd like to help out in one or more areas, let me know and I'll add your contact info. These folks are doing it on a volunteer basis and might have their own higher priorities, so please respect their time and work around their schedule (meaning they might not be able to help you out right away).
• Finding People
  • Here's the UW Departmental Telephone Directory and UW Directory. WatIAM also has a search.
• Library Resources
  • UW Library.
  • Tim Ireland (tireland@uwaterloo.ca, x35061) is the Liaison Librarian for Psychology and will be available for consultation every Wednesday morning in PAS 2048. from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. PsycINFO
  • e-Journals
  • Medline Plus
  • UW booklook
  • RefWorks resources: RefWorks login -- Guide -- Tutorial -- Importing -- Download Write-N-Cite (already installed on all Nexus stations)
• Course Related and Marking
  • Course Information
  • Electronic classrooms
  • Training for classroom podiums
  • LEARN ----Turnitin and iThenticate
  • UW Undergraduate Studies Academic Calendar
    • Grades
  • UW Graduate Studies Academic Calendar
  • Use Exambook for Marks Management or ExamProc OMR Exam Scoring - contact the IST Helpdesk, x37070, for additional help.
  • Arts Faculty YouTube Channel
  • UWaterlooPsych's YouTube Channel (check, not redirecting)
  • UWaterlooPsych's YouTube Videos
  • UWaterlooPsych380's YouTube Channel - Psych 380 History of Psychology course
• UW Computing, Hardware and Software
  • Peruse: UW Secretriay = Policies --- UW Policy 46 - Information Management --- UW Information security services (ISS) --- Computer Security Incident Response Procedure --- Information Security Breach Response Procedure
  • Here's some information about upcoming IST Training. Be sure to take advantage of the IST Online Course Materials.
  • UW Software Licensing includes information on packages available for UW-owned machines at a reduced cost. Many can be purchased through UW accounts directly from the IST Webstore and if a Nexus machine name is specified, the software will automatically be installed an hour or two later. You can also find details on software which faculty/staff/grads can get for personally owned machines for free or deeply discounted - e.g., Windows (one copy of Windows 10 is available for $11.95) and other Software for Students (Imagine, SAS, S-Plus, etc). Microsoft 365 also provides 5 Office Suite (Word, Excel, etc) licenses to install on personally owned machines - see UW Microsoft 365. NVivo is also available at no cost for UW members.
  • University of Waterloo's GenAI Hub
  • IST Contacts for specific applications
  • Dell UW pricing (if registering create a unique password different from your UW password)
  • Laptop loans are available from the ACO if you need something in a pinch.
  • The Waterloo Content Management System WCMS) is available to researchers to set up lab web sites. IST can assist with the move of existing sites to, among other things, ensure the site conforms to the newly legislated Accessibility laws. Sites need a full-time staff member as a point of contact so contact PsychIT@uwaterloo.ca and we can get the ball rolling.
    • WCMS Compliance and Guidelines
    • All research lab web sites have been migrated to WCMS 3. New sites will be created in WCMS 3.
    • See WCMS 3 training and sign up for the required WCMS 3 Essentials: Level 1 (basic editing/features, 3-4 hours), and perhaps WCMS 3 Web Forms (2-3 hours) if needed.
    • WCMS Help and Support
    • WCMS sites
    • Psych departmental and Research Lab WCMS sites
    • SiteImprove --- Content authors
    • Waterloo Photos (select "Internal users", restricted access) --- Waterloo Photos User Guide --- Organizing users and assets within Waterloo Photos Photos --- Arts Photos (restricted access)
  • Two-factor authentication (2FA)
  • WStore
  • SHARCNET - high performance computing (HPC) environment
  • Waterloo Photos. See also
  • Digital assets from Waterloo Photos can now be added to many of the content types within the WCMS..
  • Here's info on the UW Campus Network.
  • To connect to the campus wifi/wi-fi/wireless network, use Eduroam with your "youruserid@uwaterloo.ca".
  • Campus Wireless Guidelines and Wireless - what you need to know - email PsychIT@uwaterloo.ca for problems in the department so that we can coordinate the reporting of problems.
  • Net-ID (NetID, Net ID) to provide temporary access to wireless for UW visitors. They'll need to login to Eduroam with theuserid@netid.uwaterloo.ca.
  • UW VPN Service --- Check your UW VPN connection
  • WatSAFE to receive messages in the event of a campus emergency.
  • Sendit is a service for transferring files when email is not appropriate, whether because of file size, file type or concerns over security.
  • Zoom Pro/Educational licenses are vailable to faculty/staff/grads - login at https://uwaterloo.zoom.us/. Stick to Teams meeting when possible for meeting with people on campus.
• Additional UW Info
  • Undergraduate Students - Important Dates
  • List of University Holidays
• E-Prime
  • We have a site license for E-Prime from Psychology Software Tools which allows us to install the packages on any dept owned machine.
  • Resources: E-Prime Product Info -- E-Prime 3.0 KB -- E-Prime 3.0 Experiment Library -- E-Prime YouTube Channel -- E-Prime Google Group -- Archives of E-Prime -- BGSU E-prime Resources -- Video on Creating A Simple Experiment In E-Prime (among other things) - you may need to right-click and Save Link As..., and double-click. -- How to Import E-Prime Data into SPSS -- Advice on how to use E-Prime in time-critical experiments -- E-Prime Newsletter Archives
  • Alternatively, you might also consider purchasing PsyScope X.
  • The Dark Side of Overdrive contains some useful display time tests.
• Misc
  • Waterloo Copyright FAQ
  • VeraCrypt

...mostly about computer stuff:

• Internet
  • WayBackMachine,
  • Other useful tools: WebMasterEyes.com, aboutURL, ColorJack
  • Locations from: WhatIsMyIPAddress.com, IP Location Finder
  • Check for dead links with W3C Link Checker or Link Validation Spider.
  • How to Clear the Cache and Cookies in Your Web Browser -- Cookiemonster - eats cookies
• Virus Info
  • VirusTotal allows you to upload a file and it is checked against a bunch of visrus checking programs.
  • Have I been pwned? - to check if your userid or email has been associated with a compromised site.
• Email, Phishing Attempts and Fighting Spam
  
  • Recognize and follow the instructions on our phishing info page if you receive bogus emails.
  • UW Cyber Awareness
  • IST's Email security resources
  • UW's Secretariat & Office of General Counsel statement on Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation.
  • Spam Reporting Centre - forward emails to spam@fightspam.gc.ca
  • If you are reporting spam or phishing attempts, in addition to the body of the email, please also include the internet header lines which won't be included if you simply forward the message. What can you find in an Email Header?
  • Dealing with Junk Email.
• Hoax Info
  • snopes.com: Urban Legends Reference Page.
• Home Networking
  • SpeedTest
  • Consider configuring your home router to use CIRA Canadian Shield to help protect things on your home network from phishing and malware attacks.
  • Local Computer Recycling Donations (personally owned stuff only, UW owned equipment must go thru the UW Surplus process)
  • Eco-Tech Recycling Waterloo - e-waste drop off, free of charge
• Security
  • IST Recent information security threats
  • How I'd Hack Your Weak Passwords
  • If you are checking your password, realize that these sites are reading your password as plain text - don't put in your actually password, but use a similar character combination to do the check: --- How Long to Hack My Password --- How Secure is My Password --- The Password Meter --- Password Basket
• Stats
  • Statistical advice for research problems is available from the Statistical Consulting and Collaborative Research Unit.
  • Starting in January 2026, faculty, researcher and students, can purchase SPSS from one of the following sources:
    1. https://studentdiscounts.com/ - SPSS Student and Teacher Discounts on Gradpack
    2. University of Waterloo | Academic Software Discounts (OnTheHub)
    3. Other vendor options from IBM are listed at: Gradpack and Faculty Packs - IBM SPSS Statistics
  • UW has licensing which allows SPSS and AMOS to be purchased on UW owned machines on a yearly basis (licenses expires the end of December each year). IST also offers a SPSS Student Pack, but I'd stay away from that since it doesn't include the Advanced Modules which folks around seem to require. SPSS is also available from University of Waterloo Shopify, On the Hub, and Student Discounts for teaching and course work.
  • SPSS Inc.
    • selected articles from the SPSS Keywords magazine
    • for patches, etc, login to SPSS Tech Support using the userid/password guest/guest.
    • SPSS Handouts
    • Video of SPSS Techniques (among other things)
  • free alternative: R Project
• Misc
  • The Original World's Cheapest Optical Mousepad
  • Screen Cleaner

There. I guess the above items effectively makes the consulting portion of my job obsolete...

Graduating or Leaving UW

1. Be aware of M365 storage quotas and information and differences between employees, students, alumni, and retiree quotas and access.
2. Also check the M365 Frequently Asked Questions and click the "How long will I have access to my Microsoft 365 account?" section... Check all the details on that page to confirm, but currently email for life for graduates or retirees; apps for 16 months after graduation; otherwise access to everything else disappears immediately when contracts end.
3. Qualtrics access will end as soon as you are no longer registered or contracts end. If any surveys or data is needed beyond that time, best to arrange to transfer surveys to faculty member accounts. It's easier to transfer things while your account is still active.
4. VPN access will no longer be available to you.
5. Ensure you return any equipment you were using off campus.
6. If a faculty member had provided equipment for your use in your office, check if it should be relocated and if so, send a message to PsychIT@uwaterloo.ca with the new location as we'll need to configure network ports and update inventory records.
7. Make backups of anything and everything you need.
8. Make backups of anything and everything you need. Yeah, at least 2 copies.

Remote Psychology Links

• APA - APS - CPA
• Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS)
• CSIOP - Canadian Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Electronic Journals and Periodicals

Local UW Information

• UW Psychology Home Page
• Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs
• Faculty of Arts
• Arts Computing Office (ACO)
• UW News
• Official and unofficial UW documents concerning things like Weather / Emergency Closing Guidelines (storms, if you are searching) computing policies and general continuing interest documents can be found on the UW Policies, procedures & guidelines page.
• The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE)
• Guidelines for Cloud-Based Educational Technologies
• UW Co-operative Education Dept
• UW Centre for Career Development
• Daily Bulletin - Current Campus happenings.

Stuff

Test files: Long mpeg ---- short mpeg ---- Fred gif ---- .mp3 Sound file ---- .au Sound file ---- .wav Sound file ---- .mov QT file ---- .avi file ---- Real Audio ---- PDF file ---- PS file ---- Flash Player Version ---- fillable PDF file ---- Flash Examples (bottom of page) ---- Java Sorting

Hey!!!

1. anxiety ---- attlab ---- babylab ---- becklab ---- cacrg ---- canlab ---- canlab2 ---- cawl ---- cbdr ---- cburrlab ---- ccl ---- ccs ---- ccsethic ---- childres ---- clpurdo2 ---- cmhripad ---- cmhrt ---- cmhrte ---- cmhrtint ---- cmhrttrc ---- dct ---- dicelab ---- digrlab ---- djbrown2 ---- djbrown3 ---- djbrown4 ---- dkoehlab
2. ecec ---- ececipad ---- efrisko2 ---- efrisko3 ---- efrisko4 ---- efrisko5 ---- efrisko6 ---- efrisko7 ---- efrisko8 ---- efrisko9 ---- erplab ---- essprism ---- essrise ---- f2lab ---- facelab ---- fuglab ---- fuglab2 ---- gasp ---- gradpsyc ---- igrosra1 ---- itc ---- itcdata ---- itcpepro ---- itcstudy
3. jdancke2 ---- jdancke3 ---- jdancke4 ---- jdancke5 ---- jdancke6 ---- jdancke7 ---- maferna3 ---- mcglab ---- mcglab2 ---- mjdixon2 ---- npd ---- oops ---- orilab
4. pirt ---- pirt1 ---- pirt2 ---- pirt3 ---- pirt4 ---- psy-atti ---- psya9ke1 ---- psya9ke2 ---- psyadmin ---- psyasch1 ---- psyc2co2 ---- psyc2col ---- psycanb ---- psycdll (developmental.lab) ---- psycell1 ---- psycell2 ---- psych ---- psych207 ---- psych391 ---- psychco ---- psychco2 ---- psychcol ---- psychdns ---- psychedi ---- psychfin ---- psychit2 ---- psychmin ---- psychreg ---- psychsm ---- psychug ---- psychwcl
5. psycjobs ---- psycmac2 ---- psycmac3 ---- psycmac4 ---- psycmac5 ---- psycoop1 ---- psycoop2 ---- psycpool ---- psyd3br2 ---- psyd3br3 ---- psydevmi ---- psydevon ---- psydisco ---- psydmos1 ---- psydmos2 ---- psydmos3 ---- psydsmil1
6. psyecec1 ---- psyecec2 ---- psyecec3 ---- psyecec4 ---- psyecec5 ---- psyecpad ---- psyenil2 ---- psyfaml ---- psyfrie1 ---- psygrsch ---- psyhhen2 ---- psyhhen3 ---- psyhhen4 ---- psyhhen5 ---- psyhhen6 ---- psyhhend ---- psyioob ---- psyjdanc ---- psyjedi ---- psyjmic2
7. psylift ---- psymafe1 ---- psymafe2 ---- psymafe3 ---- psymjdix ---- psynhest ---- psyoupe ---- psyrbobo ---- psys4ha1 ---- psysmden ---- psysmde2
8. psychsoc (PsychSoc@uwaterloo.ca General) ---- psysoc1 (PsychSoc.President@uwaterloo.ca) ---- psysoc2 (PsychSoc.FinanceDirector@uwaterloo.ca) ---- psysoc3 (PsychSoc.ComDirector@uwaterloo.ca) ---- psysoc4 (PsychSoc.VP@uwaterloo.ca) ---- psysoc5 (PsychSoc.EventsDirector@uwaterloo.ca) ---- psysoc6 (PsychSoc.AcademicDirector@uwaterloo.ca) ---- psysoc7 (PsychSoc.DesignDirector@uwaterloo.ca) ---- psysoc8 (Psychpeermentorship@uwaterloo.ca) ---- psysoc10 (PsychSoc.RetailDirector@uwaterloo.ca) ---- psysoc11 (PsychSoc.Spons@uwaterloo.ca)
9. psytmca1 ---- psytmca2 ---- psyusra ---- psywhit2(psych-lidl) ---- psywhit3 ---- psywlad3 ---- purdlab ---- reason ---- regadmin ---- regtest1 ---- relation ---- ritier2 ---- ritier3
10. sdl ---- smilera1 ---- smilera2 ---- smilera3 ---- smilera4 ---- smilera5 ---- smilera6 ---- smilera7 ---- src ---- srmlab ---- srmlabf ---- srmlabhs ---- uwhrs ---- waclab ---- wdr ---- wbic ---- wholefam ---- wladair2 ---- worc ---- wrap

• Mailbox permissions can be checked at Nexus Security Groups Lists
• If access changes are needed email PsychIT@uwaterloo.ca.
• How to set up shared mailboxes in Outlook on Windows or on a Mac
• Adding M365 Shared Mailboxes and Generic Accounts (that you log into with your personal username@uwaterloo.ca) - Outlook for Windows
• If you are having trouble logging into the web link, you might be logged into a different account in your browser so try opening a new incognito window and login using that with your personal credentials.
• Shared mailbox accounts were migrated to the MS Cloud on Wednesday May 26, 2021. If you access the shared mailbox accounts in Outlook or with another email client, follow the post-migration steps at Microsoft 365 Shared Mailbox Migration Instructions

P.S. Most people in our department use this as a starting page for their web browser - it's a little long because its designed as an OSAUCFTS (One Stop And Use Ctrl-F To Search) resource :-).

Contact

Bill Eickmeier IT Specialist University of Waterloo Department of Psychology 200 University Ave. W Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 bee@uwaterloo.ca Room: PAS 4008 Voice: 1-519-888-4567 x46638 FAX: 1-519-746-8631 URL: https://beehive.uwaterloo.ca/