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IT News
Making hybrid work a great experience for everyone
A message from Chief Information Officer Lois Brooks: Our IT community has some great, innovative ideas to make our various work modes more engaging and rewarding.
Get ready for the 2024 Cybersecurity Awareness Training
2024 Cybersecurity Awareness Training is coming soon!
Instructors: Jump-start your spring courses with Enhancing Online Education
Register now for spring programs supporting online and hybrid instructors—and get a sneak preview of the Enhancing Online Education summer offerings. Spring kickoff webinar: Jan 26 at 9am.
Getting started with class email groups
Are you teaching this semester? Get acquainted with how class email groups work—including how they are created, how students are added and removed, and how to add teaching assistants.
Take the data classification survey
If you work with public, internal, sensitive or restricted data, please take this survey. Your answers will help identify gaps and areas of confusion in the way we present our data classification policy.
Stay informed about IT outages & planned maintenance
Houston, we have a problem… Having tech trouble? We don’t have Mission Control, but we do have the Outages page. Use it to get helpful information when services are down.
Jira & Confluence service change: migration tools & assistance
Jira and Confluence services will be discontinued in Jan 2025. Stop by office hours to learn about alternatives and tools for migrating your content. Tuesdays, 10:30am via Zoom.
Having tech trouble? Contact the Help Desk
Are you experiencing issues with your network connection? Not able to log into a system? Need general tech support? The Help Desk is here for you.
National committee co-chaired by chancellor issues report on facial recognition technology
Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin co-chaired a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine committee that recommended federal government action to address privacy, equity and civil liberties concerns in light of facial recognition technology that has outpaced laws and regulations.