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IT Security Office warns of work-from-home schemes
Friday, August 18, 2017 - 11:52am
The scams often target students, appearing in web searches and in ads on legitimate sites.
2019 OneIT Year in Review
The University of Iowa information technology community works closely with campus partners to advance the institution’s strategic goals. Learn more about how IT makes a difference in the OneIT Year in Review.
Top 10 LinkedIn Learning videos
Here’s a roundup of the 10 most popular LinkedIn Learning courses watched by the University of Iowa community. Did your favorite make the cut? Job Hunting for College Grads (1hr10m course) Excel 2016 Essential Training (8hr53m course) (Note: Excel...
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...
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Two-Step Login expands to MAUI, ICON, and MyUI
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - 10:33am
The University of Iowa has expanded Two-Step Login to web-based applications, including MAUI, ICON, and MyUI, and campus cyber-security experts advise all UI faculty, staff, and students to enable the feature for these applications. Two-Step Login...
D2L Shutdown Plan
Thursday, June 1, 2017 - 11:22am
As part of the University of Iowa's adoption of Canvas as the new LMS that powers ICON, the previous version of ICON (Desire2Learn, aka D2L) will be replaced by the ICON Archive system, When the Office of Teaching, Learning & Technology made the...
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
Events
Wednesday, October 28, 2020, 1:00pm to 3:00pm
Introduction to High Performance Computing (Using Argon)
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