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Photo courtesy, Skype
Photo courtesy, Skype

Skype for Business debuts, July 19

All UNL Windows-based Lync clients will be upgraded to Skype for Business effective, Sunday, July 19. Skype for Business will be replacing the Lync IM/Web conferencing product. Skype features a new interface; including presence and group Instant Messaging (IM), audio and HD video calling, drag- Continue reading…

 

East Campus network upgrade outage, July 26

Sunday, August 26 from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon.The next phase for the “high availability” network upgrade project will result in a outage to a number of East Campus buildings on Sunday, July 26 from 8:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon. Information Technology Services will install a new distribution router that will increase bandwidth and redundancy to Continue reading…

 

Blackboard unavailable Aug 15-17

For information about archiving and exporting courses go to http://go.unl.edu/bbarchiveMyUNL Blackboard, the university’s learning management system, will be offline August 15 at 8:00 a.m. through August 17 at 8:00 a.m., for a planned maintenance event to transition to a cloud environment. Faculty and Students will not have access to content or be able to view course documents or syll Continue reading…

 

Free Power Classroom workshops in August

Login to training.unl.edu, Pick technology and Power ClassroomFree one-hour Power Classroom sessions are offered to all faculty who want to effectively use technology to promote learning in their courses beginning August 20. Learn how to set up courses in Blackboard, perform assessments in Maple T.A. as well as practices to use Box, student clickers and other Continue reading…

 

MySupport upgrade postponed

mysupport.unl.eduThe MySupport ticketing system upgrade, planned for August, is being postponed to the December break. ITS application developers completed training for the new version, set up a test environment, and imported existing data, but determined that known technical issues must first be resolved by the Continue reading…

 
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