The Carolina CloudApps team updated its underlying software, Red Hat’s OpenShift Container Platform, from version 3 to version 4 in April. “During the week of April 19, we successfully migrated 1,613 projects with minimal downtime and minimal issues,” said Patrick … Read more
The Digital Accessibility Office at UNC-Chapel Hill has organized the inaugural Getting Started with Digital Accessibility Conference in June with Wake Forest University and Davidson-Davie Community College. The NC Higher Ed Digital Accessibility Collaborative‘s June 10 virtual conference will focus … Read more
ITS Educational Technologies has updated several CCI Printing stations to support touch-free printing. With the simple addition of a QR code to each printer, users are able to complete a print job without touching anything but their own devices. How … Read more
It’s a good thing that Danny Nguyen enjoys a very hard puzzle. That’s exactly what Nguyen, a Project Manager with ITS Communication Technologies, was handed last September when he was brought into a campus-wide effort to comply with a new … Read more
The Information Security Office’s half-day virtual event on March 26 drew about 100 campus members. Data@Rest: Bits n’ Bytes featured a variety of speakers from Carolina’s IT community in a TED Talk style format. “Seeing folks from across the University … Read more
The Digital Accessibility Office is the latest University group to move its training registrations to Carolina Talent. As of March 1, permanent faculty and staff can sign up for training by the Digital Accessibility Office via the Learning component of … Read more
ITS Communication Technologies plays an integral, and often overlooked, role in the University’s infrastructure. Whether it’s a residence hall, chemistry lab or office space, ITS is involved in the planning and execution of all construction, renovation and demolition projects. Reliable … Read more
Charlie Wilcher has impressive talents beyond his work for ITS Classroom Hotline. He also creates digital art, including book covers and character illustrations. UNC grad “I have been drawing since childhood and dabbled with digital art some in the past, … Read more
As temperatures rise and the days begin to get longer, our thoughts turn to … the annual performance review and plan season. What, that’s not what you had in mind? Regardless, performance management season will soon be upon us. This … Read more
In early February, ITS Enterprise Applications completed a complex project that enables University administrative staff members to save significant time processing retroactive pay funding source re-distributions in the ConnectCarolina system. In this six-month project, Enterprise Applications created the ability in … Read more
On March 16, 2020, Kate Hash became ITS’ Assistant Vice Chancellor for Customer Experience & Engagement after serving as interim AVC for a year. In this role, Hash oversees User Support & Engagement, which encompasses many groups and services. Among … Read more
Since last spring, Neil McKeeman has been working five shifts a week at the ITS Operations Center on top of his full-time job of managing the center. Filling in for deployed reservist McKeeman graciously accepted this double duty — normally … Read more
