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Strengthen Your Online/Hybrid Courses with Quality Matters

Support student success with Applying the QM Rubric Workshop

Quality Matters (QM) is a nationally recognized, faculty-centered, peer review process designed to improve online and blended course quality to benefit online learners. The Applying the Quality...

Posted: August 18, 2016, 10:08 AM

DoIT Welcomes Eric Ludy

NewEmployee

DoIT is very pleased to announce that Eric Ludy has joined our Development Team.  Eric will be responsible for Application Development activities and the infamous ‘other duties as assigned.’...

Posted: August 17, 2016, 9:54 AM

2016-08-16 Schedule Downtime

RT scheduled Downtime

This is a specific reminder concerning RT (Request Tracker). RT  will be down for scheduled maintenance on 8-16-2016 between 5pm-7pm. Full details for all systems identified for...

Posted: August 15, 2016, 2:40 PM

New and updated reports in REX

A new reportSchedule of Classes - Fees has been published that allows users to view Fees and Course Material Charges that have been assigned at the class attribute level. The report can be...

Posted: August 11, 2016, 10:06 AM

Clicker Registration Contest

Activate your Turning Account and be entered to win a prize!

Turning Technologies is running a contest for students who activate their Turning Accounts between August 1, 2016 and September 2, 2016. Students who activate their accounts during this time will...

Posted: August 10, 2016, 1:15 PM

Quarterly System Patching over the next two weeks

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday August 12th, Tuesday August 16th, and Saturday August 20th....

Posted: August 9, 2016, 3:24 PM

Blackboard Downtime Scheduled Sun. Morning, Aug 21st, 1-5 AM

Essential system updates & routine maintenance expected

Blackboard engineers will perform essential system updates and routine maintenance on Sunday morning, August 21, 2016, from 1 AM - 5 AM. Blackboard will be offline during this period.  In...

Posted: August 8, 2016, 2:50 PM

Email Survey / Mystery Shopper Scams

Once you wire the money to the thief, it's gone.

We have received multiple complaints about people receiving fraudulent job offer emails from con-artists.  In some of the job offers, the con-artist offers to pay $200 for completing testing and...

Posted: August 5, 2016, 11:20 PM

DoIT and VART Partner on Lynda.com License

Online tutorials to help free up faculty prep and class time

To help free up faculty time currently given to in-class software training or even home grown and self-curated online video demos, DoIT and Visual Arts (VART) have partnered to share a one-year,...

Posted: August 4, 2016, 11:50 AM