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ITS Lunch & Learn: June 26 

June 3, 2019

Join us Wednesday, June 26 at noon in Gittis 213 to learn about Microsoft Teams/Planner and how it can increase productivity, collaboration, and efficiency within your day to day functions.

 

Administrative Mainframe maintenance 8/13-8/14 

August 12, 2016

The Administrative Mainframe operating system will be upgraded Saturday, August 13th and Sunday, August 14th. All mainframe applications will be unavailable that weekend: View list.

 

ITS Lunch & Learn: April 15 

March 29, 2016

Join us Friday, April 15 at noon in Gittis 214 to learn about the latest release of Adobe Acrobat, which features an efficient new interface as well as major improvements in OCR and text editing.

 

#264 Link Validation in Canvas 

January 6, 2016

As an instructor, you can verify all external links throughout your course to ensure they are valid. You can check these links using the course link validator, which searches through course content and returns invalid or unresponsive external links in both published and unpublished content.

 

#261 PennKey Enhancements 

August 4, 2015

New password rules that make it easier to create a secure password, encouraging users to “combine four or more unrelated words” to create a strong password that is easy to remember.

 

ITS Lunch & Learn - June 9 

May 27, 2015

Samuel Jenkins from Penn’s Office of Information Security will present on info security awareness and best practices. We will also be kicking off our Annual Digital Cleanup program as well as our Physical Files Cleanup. Tuesday, June 9, noon – 1:00 p.m. in Silverman 240A

 

#260 AirPennNet Security Update - Requires Recertification for Android 

May 18, 2015

AirPennNet Wifi maintenance on May 20 at 7am will require Android Users to re-configure their devices. Re-configuration steps can be found on ITS Online. For more information see ISC’s announcement.

 

#258 Canvas: Better File Browsing Going Live on May 11 

April 27, 2015

A new and improved interface for Files will be going live on all Canvas courses on May 11th.

 

#257 eduroam WiFi 

April 17, 2015

eduroam is a secured wireless network that allows students, faculty and staff to use their home institution’s credentials (for Penn affiliates, their PennKey) to access wireless network services, when visiting other eduroam participating institutions without having to set up a guest account.

 

#256 Apple Security Update 

April 13, 2015

Apple has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities that have been discovered in Apple’s OS X, Safari, iOS, and Xcode products that could allow remote code execution.

 

ITS Lunch & Learn - Solutions for Collaboration - Nov. 21 

November 3, 2014

Join us for lunch and learn about solutions that can improve and enhance team collaboration. Our discussion will include Penn+Box, Basecamp, Canvas, and WebDAM. For Staff/Faculty. Friday, November 21, noon – 1:00 p.m. in Gittis 214