Abaqus FEA is a suite of software that can be used for finite element analysis and computer-aided engineering. The Abaqus product suite consists of five software tools.
Abaqus/CAE – an application used for both the modeling and analysis of mechanical components and assemblies (pre-processing) and visualizing the finite element analysis result.
Abaqus/Standard – a general-purpose Finite-Element analyzer that employs implicit integration scheme (traditional).
Abaqus/Explicit – a special-purpose Finite-Element analyzer that employs explicit integration scheme to solve highly nonlinear systems with many complex contacts under transient loads.
Abaqus/CFD – a Computational Fluid Dynamics software application which provides advanced computational fluid dynamics capabilities with extensive support for preprocessing and post processing provided in Abaqus/CAE.
Abaqus/Electromagnetic – a Computational electro-magnetics software application which solves advanced computational electromagnetic problems.
Box is available to UA students, faculty and staff.
Access Your Account
OIT automatically creates Box accounts for students, faculty and staff. Log into your account at box.ua.edu.
Adding Email Addresses to Box
Box is a collaboration and cloud storage tool available to all University of Alabama faculty, students and staff. For faculty and staff, Box accounts are set up with your myBama username@ua.edu as your email address by default. Students’ @crimson.ua.edu email addresses are automatically added. To set up your Box account to properly handle collaboration requests that are sent to your email aliases, the aliases need to be added to your Box Account Settings.
Log in to your UA Box account.
In the top right corner, click on account icon or photo.
From the menu that appears, choose Account Settings.
Locate the Login and Email Addresses section and choose Add Email.
In the field that appears, enter the email address you would like to affiliate with your Box account and choose Save.
Box will send a verification message to the new email address. Check the email for the address you have added and choose Verify Email to confirm the address.
If a verification email from Box is not present, check Spam or Junk Mail folders or return to the Box account settings and choose Resend Confirmation.
After the new address has been verified, you will receive an email confirmation and notification the next time you log in to UA Box.
Adjusting Individual Folder Notification Settings
Log into Box, then select the folder that you’d like to receive notifications for.
Click on the More Options (3 dots) link next to the folder name, then the Settings link.
This will open the Settings page for the folder. At the very bottom of that page, you’ll see the Emails and Notifications settings that can be adjusted.
Click Override default settings for this folder and all subfolders.
Select the actions you want notifications for, then Save Changes.
Adding Your Class Roster as Collaborators
UA Box allows for the addition of other users (Collaborators) to folders created in Box. This is a great way to share content with specific people. To share a Box folder only with students in a particular class, you can download their emails from the class roster in MyBama and add them to the folder as collaborators.
NOTE: These instructions assume your default email client is Outlook. For this technique to work in Outlook for Windows, you will need to copy a semicolon-delimited file from myBama. To select a semicolon-delimited file:
Log into myBama, open the Faculty tab, click the Faculty & Advisors link, then the Select Email Delimiter link.
In the Select Delimiter dialog, click Semi-colon and press Submit.
Close the Select Email Delimiter tab in your browser to return to myBama.
In myBama, click the Faculty tab, then the Faculty & Advisors link in the Banner Self Service channel.
Select Summary Class List.
In the Select Term window that appears, select the correct term and press Submit.
In the Select a CRN window that opens, select the class roster you’d like to copy and press Submit.
The Class Roster will appear. Click the Email Class Link (or icon) at the bottom of the roster.
This will open your default email application, create a new message, and populate the BCC field with the email addresses for your class.
Click in the BCC field, and Select All (ctrl+A), then select Copy (ctrl+C) to copy the list of addresses. Log into Box. Select the folder you’d like to share with your students, then click on the Share button and select Invite Collaborators.
In the Invite to Folder dialog box, paste the copied email addresses ( ctrl+V), and select the inviteepermissions level you’d like for the students to have.
Add a personal message if desired, and Click Send Invites. Your students will now be collaborators in the folder.
VPN is required for accessing critical applications on campus because it creates a secure pathway back to the UA campus network. Duo two-factor authentication is required to access the VPN. When you connect to the campus VPN, you will be prompted for your username, password and second password. In the second password field, you can enter the word “push” to receive a push notification to your smartphone, you can enter “phone” to receive a phone call, or you can enter a passcode. Additional instructions for using Duo with VPN is available above under each operating system.
Alertus Desktop Notification is an emergency mass notification system. Alertus is used to communicate emergency events to UA computers. Alertus is available for PC and Mac computers. Alertus is used in partnership with other UA Alert systems by the Office of Emergency Management.
4. Enter your new password, then confirm your new password. Note – we take cybersecurity seriously at UA, so make sure your new password meets our security requirements.
5. Once your password has changed, wait a few moments for the password to sync. Then, log into your account with your new password.
If you don’t know your current myBama password, follow these steps:
Flip is a simple, free and accessible video discussion experience. In Flip, instructors post discussion prompts and students respond with short videos. Learn more through the video below and on the Flip blog.
OneDrive offers secure cloud storage that allows students, faculty and staff to seamlessly collaborate and access files from anywhere with an internet connection. Along with all O365 apps, OneDrive offers mobile apps to view, edit, create and share content on the go. OneDrive is ideal for sharing content and files with others at UA.
OneDrive can be used to store sensitive data, including HIPAA data as the University has a Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Business Associate Agreement (HIPAA BAA) with Microsoft to allow use for Protected Health Information.
Benefits of using OneDrive with Microsoft 365
Automatically save a backup copy of your files
Access files from anywhere
Easily switch between different devices
Share files with anyone, anywhere
5TB of storage space
100GB Maximum single file size
File Syncing
With OneDrive installed, users can sync files between a computer and the cloud, securing access to files from anywhere – your computer, your mobile device, and even through the OneDrive website. If you make a change to a file in one place, the change is reflected anywhere you use OneDrive. Note – when accessing files on the web, you’ll notice the file name begins with bama365-my.sharepoint. This reflects your UA enterprise account.
Storage + Backup
Students, faculty and staff can store up to 5TB of data in Microsoft OneDrive, and each Microsoft Team also receives 5 TB of shared storage. Because of this high storage amount, OneDrive is a good solution for archiving files. Sensitive data, including HIPAA data can be stored in OneDrive. All O365 data, including OneDrive, is stored on US-based servers.
File Sharing
There are multiple ways to initiate sharing in OneDrive. Below are a few options.
With the document open in the Microsoft application (ex: Word, PowerPoint, Excel), click the File button from the top bar, select Share from the left hand bar, and the top option, “Share with People”, should be selected.
When creating or editing a document online, click the Share button on the top right of the screen.
In the OneDrive Online Documents file list, click the checkmark next to an existing file or folder, and select the Share button in the screens top menu.
In the OneDrive Online Documents file list, right click an existing file or folder, and select Share.
Sharing with Individuals and Groups
People you specify can view is the default settings for sharing files in OneDrive. This option does not allow the user to make changes to the document, just view and download.
You have the option to block downloads. To do this you must uncheck the “Allow editing” option.
People you specify can edit allows the people you share the file with to make changes to the document, download the document, and share the document with others.
Anyone with the link gives access to anyone who receives this link, whether they receive it directly from you or forwarded from someone else. This may include people outside of your organization.
People in The University of Alabama with the link gives anyone within the organization who has the link access to the file, whether they receive it directly from you or forwarded from someone else.
People with existing access can be used by people who already have access to the document or folder. It does not change any permissions. Use this if you just want to send a link to somebody who already has access.
Specific people gives access only to the people you specify, although other people may already have access. If people forward the sharing invitation, only people who already have access to the item will be able to use the link.
File Sharing Tips
Always choose the option to share files with “specific people”
If the option “Anyone” or “People in The University of Alabama” is selected, the file is no longer private
Use folders to share multiple files with others online. Managing access is easier this way too!
Remember that once a file/folder is shared with someone and they download it to their device, they can share it with others
Sharing files with edit permissions allows multiple people to edit the same file simultaneously.
OneDrive Training
OIT regularly offers live webinar trainings on using Microsoft OneDrive. Visit our Events calendar to see OIT-hosted sessions. Microsoft offers guides on their website, and the UA LMS offers OneDrive training. Additionally, Microsoft offers a OneDrive Quick Guide for students, educators and researchers.
Applications Manager is a task scheduling software that automates batch processing of Banner jobs, ftp jobs, etc.. Applications Manager allows users to see results of jobs that submitted and requested through Banner. This software is a client that connects a web server through Java.
