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Course banners & table enhancements coming in November

New progress tracking improvements in Ultra courses

Customizing the course interface creates a visual identifier in a Blackboard course. In the next phase of the Ultra course's improved navigation and aesthetic redesign, course banners will be an...

Posted: November 8, 2021, 9:04 AM

National Distance Learning Week 2021 Lunchtime Series

Nov. 8-12, 2021: Teaching & Learning in a Hybrid World

One in four students take some of their courses online, and two-thirds do so at a public institution in the same state where they live (Allen, Seaman, Pouline, & Straut, 2016; Allen &...

Posted: October 28, 2021, 1:13 PM

Account data breach: Thingiverse

Another Breach Of An Online Service

In 2020, the 3D model sharing service Thingiverse suffered a data breach. On October 13, 2021, the data compromised in the breach was posted in various hacker forums. This breach contained data...

Posted: October 18, 2021, 4:53 PM

Matlab 2021b Available

Latest version of Matlab install on Taki

We have installed Matlab 2021b on Taki, it is now the default Matlab. You can access Matlab by loading the module with the following command: module load MATLAB The older versions of...

Posted: October 15, 2021, 1:01 PM

Technical Briefing by NVIDIA

NVIDIA staff will share plans for future product releases

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, Technical staff from NVIDIA will give us a 30 minute intro call to go over their new product releases and see how NVIDIA might be able to help us...

Posted: October 12, 2021, 9:32 AM