Duo 2FA

Most if not all students will already have enrolled themselves for the Duo 2FA system. It is essential that you do so to access Northeastern’s digital resources. Northeastern has at least two tutorials for installing and using the Duo 2FA system:

Piazza

Piazza.com hosts our main Q&A forum. We are everyone learning; no one knows all the answers, and remember that everyone wears their best and most knowledgeable face. For questions related to the course material, assignments, policies, or what have you, please utilize Piazza. I generally prefer anonymous Piazza posts over email—this way others get the benefit of your thoughtful question and answers and corrections scale to the size of our class. Please do anonymize them if you wish; we can see even if you cannot. Frequently someone will have the same concern or be feeling the same way.

If it doesn’t “give away the punchline” of some homework question or assignment, necessitate PII in the question or the answer, and isn’t contrary to FERPA or your rights under the Northeastern University Handbook, please do consider if this can be a Piazza message.

KCCS/CCIS/CCS Github

I will be utilizing the school’s Enterprise git at [http://ccs.github.neu.edu]. You should have access to that with your KCCS account. I will expect you to know how to access this, for your own benefits and for coursework. If you are not familiar, please consult the Khoury Systems group’s documentation and walk-through.

Course Homepage

I constructed our course homepage as a Jekyll site built with Github Pages. Student corrections and improvements are incredibly welcome! You can submit a pull request (PR) for a quick correction and improvement. Every page on this website has a direct links to its .md file in this repository.

NEU VPN

Go to https://vpn.northeastern.edu, and follow the instructions to install the GlobalProctect VPN client on your machine. You will need this to use the VDI linux machines. If you have difficulty please consult the relevant ITS KB articles, and if necessary reach out to ITS support.

VDI Linux Machines

You can use the Khoury Virtual Desktops Infrastructure (VDI). See the documentation. You have many options including using an HTML client that allows you to log into a virtual machine and run ACL2s using a browser. Use your Khoury CS account credentials and select CCIS-WINDOWS; then select Linux Lab and you will see a Desktop. You may also visit the relevant ITS KB articles.