UITS Information for October 18, 2023
Keep protected on-line
October is Cybersecurity Consciousness Month, so why not rejoice by securing your pc, accounts, and the info saved on them? Maintain the dangerous guys at bay by avoiding unfamiliar software program, logging out or locking your pc, and avoiding random or suspicious hyperlinks.
Maintain your stuff protected
Voice your opinion about how UITS communicates with YOU!
Do you’ve got ideas concerning the sort and frequency of communications you obtain from UITS? On October 24 at 4pm ET, the Pupil Expertise Advisory Committee will meet with members of the IT Communications staff. No earlier STAC expertise is required and members from all campuses are welcome. Contact Kathryn Thompson (thompkaa@iu.edu) to register by midday on October 24 to obtain an invitation to the Microsoft Groups assembly.
Be taught extra concerning the Pupil Expertise Advisory Committee
No-cost statistical software program
College students can obtain and set up generally used statistical and qualitative evaluation software program at no extra price. Since these packages—reminiscent of SPSS, MATlab, and NVivo—grew to become out there for free of charge, downloads have elevated by 160 p.c among the many IU group.
Be taught extra about these statistical and mathematical software program functions
2023 Media Literacy Week
IU’s multi-campus Media Literacy Week celebration runs from October 23–27 and affords quite a lot of classes masking AI, well being data, race within the media, protest actions, and extra. There’s something to study for everybody!
View occasion schedule
Microsoft in Minutes: Use Scheduling Polls to schedule conferences
Scheduling Polls in Outlook can assist decrease the e-mail and messaging back-and-forth when scheduling a posh assembly. Advanced conferences both have lots of of attendees, attendees from inside and outdoors of IU, or attendees who don’t use their Outlook calendars to maintain their schedule.
Discover ways to streamline scheduling conferences with Scheduling Polls
Accessibility sources
IU is making strides to be a extra accessible in-person and on-line campus for all college students, employees, and school. From offering assistive applied sciences to creating digital sources reminiscent of PDFs, course supplies, and distant conferences extra accessible, IU has quite a lot of sources in a single place.
Be taught extra about IU’s accessibility sources
Cybersecurity Consciousness Month
October 2023 marks the 20th annual Cybersecurity Consciousness Month, an effort to empower people to safeguard their information towards digital threats. IU is dedicated to schooling about cybersecurity and tips on how to correctly handle information on-line and would require all workers that work together with institutional information to finish the Knowledge Safety & Privateness Tutorial by November 3.
Take the Knowledge Safety & Privateness Tutorial
Meet your good tech match
Be a part of UITS Studying Applied sciences on the IU On-line Convention for Velocity Courting with Studying Applied sciences. This fashionable occasion gives a enjoyable option to find out about many expertise sources in a brief time period. Matchmakers embody employees from throughout UITS Studying Applied sciences and different key companions.
See matters and register for the October 25 velocity relationship occasion
Adjustments coming to IU Checklist and e-mail supply
If you happen to handle an IU Checklist mailing checklist, you’ll quickly want to make use of a brand new web site to create, rename, and shut lists. Present IU Checklist mailing lists will likely be migrated from the outdated mas.iu.edu instrument to the brand new one. This alteration is an element of a bigger migration of IU’s e-mail supply software program that can happen over the following two months.
Be taught extra about exterior mail supply and IU Checklist modifications
Extra IT information and occasions
CrimsonCard Retailers of the Month
Dell.com/IU at all times will get you the perfect costs with 10% flash sale
Media Literacy Week occasion schedule
AI’s Position in Shaping Skilled Norms: A School Dialog
2024 Mosaic School Fellows Software are open
