Voice Services

ITS provides voice services including campus landlines, voice mail, and voice conferencing. Telephone service and voice mail are provided for faculty and staff, with some individuals sharing a phone.

Students living in residence halls or on-campus houses may request phone and voice mail. Resident halls and houses also have telephones in common areas with local calling service.

Quick Reference Guides

• Dialing Instructions
• Digital Telephone Quick Reference
• Voice Conferencing

Landline FAQ

FAQ Search

• How do I make calls with a campus phone?
• Where can I look up a campus phone number?
• Where can I look up an off-campus phone number?
• How do I transfer a call directly to an individual's voice mailbox?
• How do I make an international call from an on-campus phone?
• Why is my call to area code 507 or 320 not going through?
• Why is my call to area code 612, 763, or 952 not going through?
• Why is my message light flashing when I have no voice mail messages?
• How do I make a long distance or international call using a departmental authorization code?

Smartphone, iPad, and Tablet FAQ

• How do I register my smartphone to use the wireless network?
• How do I set up Macalester's email on my iPhone/iPod Touch's email application?
• How do I set up Macalester's calendar on my iPhone/iPod Touch's calendar application?
• Why won't the Remote app on my iPhone/iPod Touch see my computer on the macalester-student wireless?
• How can I change settings in Gmail, like Vacation Responder or Signature, from my iPhone, or other mobile device?
• How do I change the wireless key on my iPhone or iPad?
• Where do I find the MAC Address (or hardware address) for a Samsung smartphone?
• How do I access Citrix from my iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad?
• How do I choose which Google calendars sync to my iPhone or iPad?