UNC-Chapel Hill now has a Digital Accessibility Office that will offer training, consulting and assessment services to make digital platforms and materials more accessible at the University. The Digital Accessibility Office (DAO) launched July 1 as a four-person team within … Read more
ITS will launch a new help.unc.edu and the underlying system used for support, called ServiceNow, on July 30. The new website and system will bring many benefits to users, including the ability to find answers faster with better knowledge articles, … Read more
Internet protocol cameras have proven to be tremendously useful on Carolina’s athletic fields and courts. Over the past three years, ITS has more than quadrupled the number of these internet protocol (IP) cameras deployed for UNC Athletics in its venues. In 2016, the … Read more
ITS is scheduled to launch ServiceNow, a platform for automating business and support processes, to various University organizations on July 30. The initial rollout is focused on users of Remedy, the current system for managing business and support processes, and … Read more
As use of cloud-based technology continues to grow, ITS is taking steps to ensure that campus IT leaders will be prepared to participate in this transformation. Toward that goal, ITS held cloud essentials training for four full days in June … Read more
The University’s security awareness training has received a complete transformation this year. Led by the Information Security Office at Information Technology Services, the training educates ITS employees on the importance of securing campus data. Soon, other campus groups can access … Read more
This year, UNC-Chapel Hill will begin switching to a new phone system. The current voice services agreement expires in January 2024. “Changing to a new phone system requires a lengthy ‘ramp-up’ period to build out the infrastructure, in addition to porting out phone lines … Read more
Through ITS’ leadership, UNC-Chapel Hill has become a founding member of the RHEDcloud Foundation, along with 14 other universities and corporations. The nonprofit RHEDcloud Foundation launched in March to initiate the RHEDcloud Project, an open-source project for collaborating on cloud … Read more
ITS ResNET is collaborating with more than a dozen campus organizations to bring a state-of-the-art gaming arena to Craige Hall this fall. Carolina Gaming Arena will provide students with high-end gaming equipment — from PC stations and gaming consoles to … Read more
Carolina Technology Consultants brought together the University’s IT professionals and sparked discussion of the latest technologies at its annual BarCamp unconference on May 23. About 30 people attended CTC’s half-day unconference, held at the Department of Computer Science’s Sitterson and … Read more
When students encounter a simpler, more streamlined way of printing upon returning for the Fall 2019 semester, School of Information and Library Science classmates can take pride in knowing they helped make it happen. Lukasz Mazur’s INLS 582 Systems Analysis … Read more
UNC-Chapel Hill is switching to a system of changing Onyen passwords to once a year rather than every 91 days. For the convenience of changing their password just one time per year, campus community members will need to create passwords … Read more
