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ITS Help Desk reports fall hot topics and back-to-school stats

Connecting to eduroam and using Two-Step Login were among the “hot topics” for the ITS Help Desk during this year’s fall rush—the week before the semester began and the first week of classes. An eduroam certificate upgrade in June generated many...

Goodbye Lynda, Hello LinkedIn Learning

On Tuesday, July 16, ITS will upgrade Lynda.com to LinkedIn Learning. LinkedIn Learning will have the same great content but provide an even more personalized experience. Upgraded features to explore LinkedIn Learning is the same online course...

Stronger security for your Office 365 account

Office 365 added to services using Two-Step Login with Duo Security June 25 If you currently use Two-Step Login with Duo Security for campus applications like Employee Self-Service and MAUI, you can add Microsoft Office 365 to the growing list of...

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Printing price change supports sustainability

Wednesday, May 3, 2017 - 11:15am

ITS and UISG developed a new funding model for printing, which discontinues the free print credit and lowers per-page prices. The change takes effect fall 2017 for all Information Technology Center printers and partner printing facilities.

ICON & Office 365 integration

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 - 9:52am

The ICON and Office 365 integration allows instructors and students to use, create, share and collaborate on files stored in Office 365 within their ICON course sites. Office 365 is now available in several areas in ICON, including Assignments,...

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Corey and Weissenberger win Diversity Catalyst Award for web accessibility progress

Monday, March 27, 2017 - 12:40pm

Kirk Corey and Todd Weissenberger have won a 2016-17 Diversity Catalyst Award in recognition of their contributions to improving website accessibility at the University of Iowa.

Kirk Corey and Todd Weissenberger with Diversity Catalyst Awards

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Being a Good Wi-Fi Citizen @ UIowa

Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 12:24pm

Being a Good Wi-Fi Citizen What Does it Mean to be a good Wi-Fi Citizen? It may not be obvious at first, but what you do when you’re in your office, classroom, or walking around campus CAN affect Wi-Fi performance for those around you. Setting up...

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OneIT

IT Leadership Award nominations due April 2

Tuesday, March 7, 2017 - 12:00am

The IT Leadership Award is part of a continuing effort to develop, encourage, and support IT Leadership at the UI. Nominations are due by Sunday, April 2.

Outage impacted ICON and other IT services – information and next steps

Friday, March 3, 2017 - 8:34am

UI was one of many institutions impacted by a cloud-based IT service outage on Feb. 28. We apologize for the inconvenience and assure you that we are doing everything we can to ensure that our key technology services are robust and reliable.

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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology

New Tools to Enhance Student Writing

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 12:00am

Coming Summer 2017, a reimagined suite called Turnitin Feedback Studio will be incorporated campus-wide through ICON (Canvas).

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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology

Join the Canvas Commons Community

Tuesday, February 28, 2017 - 12:00am

Canvas Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share content in the following Canvas tools: course presentation modules, quizzes, assignments, discussions, pages or documents.

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OneIT

Argon HPC deployment update

Monday, February 6, 2017 - 12:00am

Deployment of the new high-performance computing system, Argon, is taking longer than expected due to issues with equipment delivered by the vendor. Argon is expected to be generally available by March 14.

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OneIT

OneIT Strategy Team and Councils take shape

Monday, February 6, 2017 - 12:00am

Membership and charges for the six OneIT Councils and the OneIT Strategy Team are being finalized.

Canvas Commons is here

Thursday, February 2, 2017 - 2:14pm

The University of Iowa Canvas Commons space will be available in ICON for all users with a Teacher or TA account starting Feb. 3, 2017. Commons is a learning object repository that enables educators to find, import, and share resources.

Protect yourself from tax-season scams

Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - 1:51pm

Be vigilant of unexpected or suspicious emails, text, or phone calls requesting personal or financial information this time of year, when cyber criminals develop income tax scams.

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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology

4CAST 2017: Our Lives Online Recap

Friday, January 27, 2017 - 12:00am

The Campus Academic Strategies and Technology (4CAST) drew UI instructors and support staff to make professional connections, examine how learning technologies can be leveraged to engage students, and identify educational potential in new technology.

IT security notification: HawkID password change encouraged

Wednesday, January 18, 2017 - 10:56am

The University of Iowa recently notified approximately 250 university faculty, staff, and students that their HawkID and password had been obtained by unauthorized individuals using physical devices that had been secretly attached to university...

Two-Step Login to be required for Employee Self Service website

Friday, January 6, 2017 - 12:24pm

UI employees who haven’t yet enrolled in Two-Step Login with Duo Security must do so by March 8. Two-Step Login is an IT security measure to protect critical data and systems for the university and its people.

Phone and laptop showing Two-Step Login and verification screens

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OneIT

A new HPC system

Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - 12:00am

The Helium high-performance computing system was shut down Dec. 1, and installation of the replacement Argon HPC system is underway. Argon is scheduled to be full-service by March 2017.

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OneIT

Unit-by-unit approach to OneIT implementation

Wednesday, December 21, 2016 - 12:00am

OneIT is taking a unit-by-unit approach to implementing OneIT initiatives in 13 remaining units by summer 2018. The focus for the unit-by-unit approach is on End User Support, Data Centers and Servers, and Classroom IT Support.

UI earns top slot in university website accessibility ranking

Wednesday, November 23, 2016 - 9:42am

The University of Iowa ranks first in the nation in an assessment of how accessible its websites are to people with disabilities.

Mike Hoenig, a program coordinator in the Center for Disabilities and Development at UI Stead Family Children’s Hospital, uses a screen-reading program on the computer.

Celebrate GIS Day on Nov. 16

Monday, November 14, 2016 - 3:17pm

GIS Day is an international forum for users of geographic information systems technology to demonstrate real-world applications

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Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology

ICON 'Groups' Help Students Collaborate

Wednesday, November 2, 2016 - 12:00am

With the adoption of Canvas as the engine that drives ICON, instructors have gained many new functions within our course sites that help us collaborate and engage with other users in the course. One such tool is known as “Groups.”