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ITS Fall 2008 Newletter

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Available at http://www.swarthmore.edu/its_summer08.xml
Contents

Internet Bandwidth, Increased from 60 Mb/s to 100 Mb/s
Media Services Equipment Loans
Computers in the Classrooms: next up are Hicks 211, Kohlberg 226 & 328, Trotter 301 & 303, SC 199
New Improved Office Computer Backups, Coming Soon
Media Center Now Open Sundays, 1 - 9 p.m.
New Software Versions
16TB in New Storage
Dial-Up Services to be [...]

Learn how-to protect your Blackberry, Treo, iPhone…

Friday, September 26th, 2008

If you use a handheld device to check email, keep track of meetings, make calls, and download files and/papers, ITS strongly recommends using an autolock and other built-in password security measures. Implementing a password known only to you will ensure an added layer of security for your protection.
Follow this link to learn how-to

Revised Procedures on Copyright Violations Related to File Sharing

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

To Swarthmore College Faculty, Staff, and Students:
The new Higher Education Opportunity Act imposes a variety of federal regulatory and reporting requirements on colleges and universities. Two provisions are designed to reduce illegal sharing of copyrighted works using file sharing on college networks. While the law will be clarified through the regulatory process, we are required [...]

Update on Online and Print Directories

Monday, September 1st, 2008

ITS is pleased to announce the launch of a new online directory of contact information for faculty, staff, and students at
http://www.swarthmore.edu/directory
The new directory provides a simpler search interface and more up-to-date information based on the data in Banner, the College’s central database.
Need to update your information?
Please login to mySwarthmore to change your department, location, and [...]

Summer employment opportunities

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Information Technology Services is accepting applications for summertime employment.
Apply Online
Please be sure to check the position you are interested in AS WELL AS the “I am interested only in summer positions” boxes.
Summer Technical Support Associate
Classification: Category III pay rate
Hours: 8:30-4:30 weekdays; starting late May until Aug. 1
Duties: Upgrade faculty/staff computers according [...]

College Mail Server Upgrade 1/17/08

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

What will change
Email service is not expected to be interrupted; however, you might experience delays in receiving new emails between 4:00am and 8:30am on Thursday, Jan 17th. No changes are being made in the way that you send and receive email.
Additional spam filtering, to identify email messages which are sent from on campus and considered [...]

Technology Training

Monday, January 14th, 2008

ITS has recently purchased an on-line service, Atomic Learning, which provides technology training to faculty, staff and students at Swarthmore. Atomic Learning provides an extensive library of short, easy-to-understand tutorials. You can learn how to use the features of a number of software programs including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. Just type your question into [...]

ITS Welcomes Gayle Barton, our new CITO

Friday, January 11th, 2008

ITS is pleased to welcome, Gayle Barton our new Director of Information Technology Services. On November 16, 2007, Connie Hungerford, Provost made the following announcement to the College Community:
I am happy to announce that Gayle R. Barton will become Swarthmore’s new Director of Information Technology Services. Gayle earned [...]

Update on the Campus Calendar

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

In September 2007, Communications and ITS launched a new Campus Calendar to serve as a central web site for campus event publicity. The success of this initiative has depended on the participation of the entire community.
How are we doing? Very well. Since launch, page views of the calendar have climbed steadily and [...]