Month: July 2020

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team would like to inform you of two upcoming maintenance events. On August 1, between 1:00am-9:00am, the following standalone and integrated Pearson products will be unavailable while the vendor conducts scheduled maintenance [1]: MyLab&Mastering [2], MyLabsPlus. Additionally, WileyPLUS [3] will be unavailable from 6:00am-6:10am on August 1 due to scheduled… Read more »

Hello IT Professionals, Registration closes soon for the first of two EdCert courses in August, the CompTIA PenTest+ course.  This course is designed for IT professionals who want to develop penetration testing skills to enable them to identify information-system vulnerabilities and effective remediation techniques for those vulnerabilities. Held online August 10-14, the cost is $500.  Register by Wednesday, August 5. The second EdCert course in August is Microsoft Windows 10 (MOC MD-100). In this… Read more »

Dear IT professional colleagues, Please navigate to the following link to find two spreadsheets containing a comprehensive list of classrooms for both the Bloomington and IUPUI campuses, as well as the list of auxiliary classrooms that will be employed [IU Login Required]: https://iu.box.com/s/pe58csawio8htu2aljumpxslixjxh05n Please assess rooms in buildings you support (or proximate to rooms that… Read more »

IT Professionals, The IT Community Partnerships team will host two online Infoshare sessions with our Senior Systems Engineer from Apple, Tim Matheny. The first session will be on Wednesday, August 12 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am EDT, and the second session will be the following day, Thursday August 13 from 2:00 pm to 3:15… Read more »

IT Professionals, Join us for an infoshare about the continuing Box Migration. We will discuss Institutional Storage in the Microsoft and Google environments as well as review a case study for migrating organizational accounts from Box. What: Infoshare – Box Migration – Institutional Storage and Case Study Presenters: Emily Oakes, Digital Education Programs & Initiatives, Justin… Read more »

IT Professionals, This Thursday, July 23, Campus Networks will be upgrading software for the routers in the IUB Data Center, beginning at 9:00pm [1].   Users of the campus SSL VPN service may experience intermittent connectivity between 9pm and 10pm as VPN traffic will transition during this time frame. If you have questions about the VPN,… Read more »

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team (eLS) wants to inform you of two significant changes to Zoom. Previously, eLS announced that Zoom [1] would be requiring either a passcode or waiting room [2] for all meetings effective July 19th in order to enhance meeting security. However, this has been delayed until September 27th. eLS recommends… Read more »

IT Professionals, The eLearning Services team (eLS) wants to inform you of several changes to Canvas and Pearson. The following updates were implemented in Canvas [1] this Thursday, July 16 between 5:00am-5:30am: The Quizlet LTI will be removed from Canvas. Currently, there are two LTIs within Canvas that integrate with Google: the Google Apps LTI… Read more »

Dear IT pro colleagues, Beginning August 3rd, we will activate a compliance process within IT People through the Application Security and Quality Assurance team that will check for and notify IT pros whose Acceptable Use Agreement (UA) and FERPA compliance requires renewal.  If compliance is not met, tool access granted through IT People, will be… Read more »

IT Professionals, The IT Community Partnerships team will host two online Infoshare sessions with our Senior Systems Engineer from Apple, Tim Matheny. The first session will be on Wednesday, August 12 from 10:00 am to 11:15 am EDT, and the second session will be the following day, Thursday August 13 from 2:00 pm to 3:15 pm EDT. Both sessions will be hosted via WebEx, which is Apple’s required conferencing platform. IT… Read more »