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Department of Information and Communication Technology

Important announcements Helpdesk


Director: Danny Schellemans

ICT User Support Office

Head of office: Steven Rogge

Helpdesk and Reception group

  • Helpdesk (09 264 47 47 or helpdesk@dict.UGent.be): ICT support for students and staff
  • Reception desk: user account details (log-in and password) and support for lecturers to draw up and process multiple-choice exams (MCE).

Group PC Administration and PC shop

ICT Infrastructure Office

Head of office: Johan Van Camp

Network and Telephony group

System group

  • Server management and storage
  • Network services
  • Backups
  • Technical support for the user administration, multiple-choice exam processing, ...

High Performance Computing

The HPC UGent team manages a state-of-the-art supercomputing environment and services.

ICT Applications Office

Head of office: Luc Verschraegen

SAP group

Student administration group

  • Maintenance of the student database
  • Application development for enrolment and study programmes
  • R&D for new technologies and standards (J2EE,XML, PDF,...)

ICT projects group

  • Development and maintenance of administrative applications:
    • Personnel and Salary administration
    • Guest registration and access management
  • Application integration
  • Database administration
  • Security management

Portal group

  • Technical support of the portal site

ICT Educational Technology Office

Head of office: Toon Van Hoecke

  • Providing an adequate infrastructure for the e-learning platform
  • Providing a reliable infrastructure in in consultation with other offices inside of the ICT department (linking to databases, security etc.)
  • Servicing the infrastructure
  • Developing the course management system on the Minerva platform
  • Developing the online test environment Curios
  • Offering immediate support via the helpdesk
  • Encouraging educational expertise of the users by means of workshops

You can read more on the information website of this office.

Multimedia group

In our multimedia room you can organise video conferences and make digital video recordings in the scope of educational innovation, permanent evaluation and correspondence courses.