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Microsoft Exchange Recommended as New University E-mail/Calendaring System
E-mail and calendaring services are prime examples of how information technology touches the lives of all members of the university community on a daily basis. With millions of messages traveling through the Miami system each year, reliable e-mail service has become a basic utility for most faculty, staff and students. Like we expect water to flow when we turn on the tap, we expect our e-mail service to be available whenever we need or want it.
To provide a reliable, flexible, and scalable system capable of meeting the university's long-term needs, IT Services recommended to the IT Strategic Advisory Council in October that the university purchase and implement Microsoft Exchange as Miami's "next generation" e-mail/calendaring solution. Microsoft Exchange is a robust enterprise-class solution that is extremely feature-rich. The IT Strategic Advisory Council accepted the recommendation and asked that IT Services gather campus input on the migration.
Miami’s New Spam Firewall Service Puts You in Control of Your E-mail
On 11/26/06, IT Services put into place a new Spam Firewall Service from Barracuda Networks to help students, faculty, and staff combat the continuing glut of spam e-mail. This service is user-customizable and will help reduce the load on Miami’s e-mail servers. It allows you to keep suspected spam out of your Inbox, but still provides an opportunity to review it before it is deleted.
Miami Chat – Secure Instant Messaging for the University Community
Many members of the university community are already familiar with and using public instant messaging (IM) services like AOL Instant Messenger. IT Services has launched Miami Chat, a secure instant messaging service for the Miami community, to address some of the drawbacks of using public IM services for internal university communication.
Miami Hamilton's Saturday Select Program: Technology Enables New Degree Format for Non-Traditional Learners
by Dr. Daniel Hall, Miami Hamilton Campus Dean
Saturday Select, and its companion night program, Degree Power Schedule, is an effort to increase Miami Hamilton’s service to learners who cannot attend classes during the day. Nontraditional learners are the fastest growing population in the area and for years, nontraditional learners have been asking for access to a Miami education.
Applications on UNIXGen to be Upgraded Over Winter Break
UNIXGen is Miami's general purpose instructional and research computing platform for students, faculty and staff. To ensure the currency of applications available on UNIXGen, a number of upgrades are slated to occur over winter break.
Collaboration in Action:
The Advanced Learning Technologies and Saturday Select Faculty Partnership
The staff in IT Services’ Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT) group began working with the Miami Hamilton Saturday Select faculty last summer to transform traditional courses into quality, blended learning (aka “hybrid”) courses. The goal: to create a community of faculty who could build their own courses and mentor new faculty as the program grows.
Oxford StudentTechnology Fee Buys Discipline Specific Software for Student Use
When the Miami Board of Trustees approved the student technology fee last spring, the purpose was clear: the funds collected are to support student's use of technology. One of the ways that IT Services is fulfilling that purpose is by helping faculty and departments make discipline-specific software available to students for academic purposes.
Bursar Bills Go Paperless with New E-Bill Service
by Virginia Layton, Bursar
The Bursar’s office is pleased to announce the move to paperless invoices. The new eBill service allows students, faculty, and staff to view their invoice online and authorize others to view their eBill.
Web-based Survey Tool Implementation Project
Kicks Off
As reported in the last issue of TechTalk, a study project concluded in late August with the recommendation that the University purchase and implement two survey tools – Prezza and Snap – for faculty/staff use. Since the October TechTalk article, funding has been acquired and a six-month implementation project is about to kick off.
Middletown’s Applied Research Center Pilots “Voice over IP” Telephone Services
Miami University Middletown’s Applied Research Center is a public policy research group which provides research services to local, county, and state government entities, non-profit organizations, and business and industry. With the Applied Research Center’s recent move from Miami University Middletown’s Johnston Hall campus location to a building in downtown Middletown, the abilities to connect to the University’s data network and to have telephone services that supported their outbound telephone survey calls were critical considerations.
IT Governance @ Miami
One of the goals identified in the university's Information Technology Strategic Plan (http://www.muohio.edu/itplan), developed in 2004, was to develop an advisory structure to ensure university-wide input and involvement in IT decision making. Over the past two years, Miami has instituted and refined a new IT governance model with the goal of making sure all stakeholders have the opportunity to provide input into the decision making process.
Research Projects Leverage Capabilities of the Redhawk High Performance Computing Cluster
What do research on the stability and control of discontinuous mechanical systems like gear-trains and robotics and experimental analysis of hypercube embeddings of mathematical graphcs have in common? At Miami, one answer is the use of Miami’s Redhawk High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) to dramatically speed the computational analysis required for these research projects.
IT Student Technology Committee Brings Student Viewpoint to Decision Making
Once a month, a group of fifteen students meets to talk about technology. They talk about spam, the movie channel on the residence hall cable system that cuts movies off in the middle, Blackboard, FaceBook, and much more. But this group is not just talking. This is the IT Student Technology Advisory Committee (STAC) and they are changing the face of computing at Miami for students.
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