The first of a series of “go-lives” for the ConnectCarolina project is currently scheduled to take place on July 20, 2009, when a portion of the University’s new integrated administrative system becomes available for end users. The initial impact of this go-live for much of the University community will be seen in the online campus directory.

Changes to the online campus directory include a redirect to a location in the new enterprise portal, called AccessCarolina, and a redesigned directory update account interface. Students and employees will also see minor changes in the directory search tools.

Behind the scenes, many people from Information Technology Services and ConnectCarolina teams have been working diligently to re-structure the University’s identity and person management systems and clean up data to allow PeopleSoft, the software on which the new administrative system is built, to become the canonical source for person data on campus.

Service Outages
The transition of the online campus directory will require some service outages. The following describes service outages that are currently scheduled to begin Tuesday, July 14 at 5 p.m. and end Monday, July 20 at 8 a.m.:

LearnIT is expanding its Web presence by joining Twitter, a micro-blogging service designed to communicate by using "tweets"- updates in 140 characters or less. LearnIT joins Teaching and Learning Interactive as ITS groups providing news and information through Twitter.

Using Twitter, groups can share up-to-date and up-to-the-minute information with their Twitter followers and potentially reach a wider or more diverse audience than they might with more traditional communications.

Webmasters will host an open discussion at its next meeting on Thursday, July 2 at 2 p.m. in ITS Manning 5102.  

Zoe Gillenwater’s presentation on designing flexible CSS layouts, which was the topic of the June meeting, is now available online.

Living in an "information age" brings exciting developments in the acquisition and sharing of knowledge as well as a transformation of the job market into one that, for the vast majority, requires computer skills.  How is the challenge of developing 21st Century literacies being met at UNC-Chapel Hill?  How is the challenge being defined and integrated into the academic experience?

The July meeting for the Instructional Applications Interest Group (IAIG) will discuss the integration of Facebook into instruction and associated privacy issues.

Information Technology Services (ITS) is the focus of several stories in the current issue of the University Gazette. 

Check out The state of information technology at Carolina, the Tar Heel Grid combines resources to foster scientific discovery and Blackboard upgrade features new-and-improved software.

Also included in the June issue is a reminder to Update campus directory listings for print directory, campus mail.