UC Davis is one of the first U.S. locations to joinEduroam simplifies wireless access for travelers
Posted 5/6/11
The campus has joined eduroam, a service that gives UC Davis faculty, students and staff free, easy and secure access to wireless networks when they travel to other universities all across the world.
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IET services post schedule for winter holiday
Posted 12/07/11
During the year-end holiday season, Information and Educational Technology consultants will provide support on a slightly modified schedule.
IET brings out The Wheel, a new resource for faculty
Posted 11/21/11
The Wheel is now open.
SmartSite will close out 2011 by installing latest upgrade to Gradebook2
Posted 11/18/11
Information and Educational Technology (IET), capping a year of improvements to Gradebook2, plans to install another upgrade to the grading tool for 2011 after fall quarter ends.
New faculty SmartSite group gets underway with news, advice, questions and feedback
Posted 10/17/11
The debut meeting of the Faculty Users of SmartSite offered a mix of news and practical discussions.
New group for faculty who use SmartSite will meet Oct. 7
Posted 09/29/11
Faculty Users of SmartSite, a new group hosted by Andy Jones, will meet for the first time at 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 7, in the large conference room at 1310 Surge III.
Andy Jones strengthens faculty connections in new role at IET
Posted 09/22/11
Andy Jones, a familiar and respected UC Davis instructor, has rejoined Information and Educational Technology. His new job is academic associate director of Academic Technology Services (ATS).
UC student cited for illegal file-sharing knocks down '12 myths' in video
Posted 09/19/11
"Everybody does it." Nope. About 20 percent of students share files illegally via the Internet. Four in five do not.
Moobilenetx upgrade Sept. 7 will require users to adjust settings
Posted 08/30/11
Moobilenetx, the secure campus wireless network, will switch to an upgraded encryption method on Sept. 7. The change will require existing customers to adjust their settings the first time they use the network after the work is done.
SmartSite completes summer improvements Aug. 30
Posted 08/25/11
SmartSite will be unavailable for up to 4 hours early on Tuesday, Aug. 30, while the SmartSite team wraps up the series of improvements it scheduled for this summer.
Good news for DavisMail: More apps, bigger mailboxes
Posted 08/12/11
DavisMail is gaining two major improvements this month.
Active Directory can trim your campus energy expense
Posted 08/11/11
Automatically powering down dormant computers will save money and energy without disrupting work. If you would like to adopt that practice in your part of UC Davis, Active Directory can help.
UC honors UC Davis passphrase upgrade campaign
Posted 08/10/11
The University of California has awarded the Larry L. Sautter Silver Award for Innovation in Information Technology to UC Davis for the 2010-11 upgrade of its core authentication service.
Davis campus changes free anti-virus software options
Posted 08/01/11
UC Davis is changing the way it provides anti-virus software to faculty, students and staff on the Davis campus.
Second Gradebook2 upgrade of summer occurs Aug. 12
Posted 07/28/11
SmartSite will be offline for several hours starting late Aug. 12 while Gradebook2 is upgraded to version 1.6.
MySpace--the UC Davis version--will be retired this fall
Posted 07/04/11
Information and Educational Technology will retire MySpace, the campus file-storage tool accessed via the MyUCDavis Web portal, this fall. The feature is largely redundant to SmartSite's Resources tool, which offers a better alternative.
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