When the Information Security Office transitioned to remote operations back in March, the team members’ first concern was making sure that they were communicating effectively. They quickly decided that the best way to reach their audiences was through a multi-channel … Read more
Ordering materials for a department or school is now easier, and in time shoppers will have more supplier options and lower costs. These improvements are thanks to a new online marketplace, BuyCarolina, which ITS helped launch in mid-August. ITS Enterprise … Read more
ITS Teaching & Learning has changed its name to ITS Educational Technologies. The ITS division determined it needed a new moniker after being known as Teaching & Learning for nearly 15 years. Along with the name change, Educational Technologies (ITS … Read more
Season three of Data@Rest, a podcast produced by Charlie Mewshaw and Michael Williams of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Information Security Office, was released in September. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Mewshaw and Williams recorded the podcast in the UNC School of Medicine’s state … Read more
In July, ITS Infrastructure & Operations improved the ConnectCarolina infrastructure to meet the surge in student registration activity due to COVID-19 using a capacity on demand strategy. With the pandemic causing significant changes to courses for the Fall 2020 semester, … Read more
After months of planning, ITS’ Voice Services unit is starting to migrate the University to a new Voice-over-Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone system. The move to AT&T hosted-cloud service from Verizon Business will take two to three years. Carolina uses an … Read more
In mid-August, Enterprise Applications worked with the College of Arts and Sciences, The Graduate School and several other groups across campus to launch the Graduate Student Hub. Before the Hub, each graduate program had its own way of tracking its … Read more
ITS and the Office of Sponsored Research have completed the second and important phase for a new tool that enables campus users to manage awarded funds for research projects. On September 8, two ITS divisions — Enterprise Reporting & Departmental … Read more
The Information Security Office’s annual SecurityCon event will be held on October 9. While the conference will be fully virtual this year, event managers Charlie Mewshaw and Michael Williams of the Information Security Office strive to uphold the success of … Read more
Beginning September 27, 2020, Zoom will require either the waiting room or a passcode to be applied to meetings, including ones that have already been scheduled. By default, the waiting room will be applied to all meetings; however, you can … Read more
In preparation for the first day of Fall 2020 classes, ITS’ Classroom Hotline unit spent spring and summer getting faculty and the technology in teaching spaces ready. Classroom Hotline staffers had already gotten themselves quickly versed on all things Zoom … Read more
ITS Teaching & Learning played a key role in helping UNC-Chapel Hill faculty get prepared for Fall 2020 classes, whether instructors are teaching on campus, remotely or a combination of the two. Addressed physical distancing needs Staffers within Teaching & … Read more
