Swarthmore College will be hosting a conference on “High Performance Computing in the Liberal Arts” on January 7-8, 2020. Aimed at IT staff at liberal arts colleges, the event will bring together over 30 technologists from 25 colleges from across … Continue reading High Performance Computing Conference at Swarthmore – January 2020
ITS is pleased to announce our new Adobe Creative Cloud licensing and self-service app, Creative Cloud Desktop! After November 2019, Swarthmore Faculty and Staff will use a new Adobe sign-in method. The next time you launch an Adobe application like … Continue reading Adobe Creative Cloud Sign-In
Welcome or welcome back, all! In July, we detailed the change from Lynda.com to LinkedIn Learning that all higher education institutions have made or will be … Continue reading Little Change, Large Bird, Larger Tantrum: “The Red Swan”
This year, Swarthmore College ITS and the Libraries asked the campus community to provide feedback via the MISO Survey, “a web-based quantitative survey designed to measure how faculty, students, and staff view library and computing services in higher education.” We … Continue reading How are we doing? 2019 MISO Survey Results
For much of this spring semester ITS staff have been chasing down several issues causing network instability. One of the causes was failing fiber optic cable which has been located and replaced. We also identified a bug in the network operating system running on some of our core network switches. We have been working with Juniper engineers (Juniper is the company that manufactures our networking equipment) for several weeks to identify and fix the problem. This may sound like a lot of time but this is a complicated issue and had to be escalated through Juniper technical support. Last Friday … Continue reading Status Report on Friday’s Campus Network Outage
What ITS services are people using? I looked at the activity on a few commonly used campus systems to see what was popular. Moodle Moodle is Swarthmore’s learning management system, used to share course content and allow students to upload … Continue reading ITS Statistics
