CIS Faculty Technology Blog
- Micah Schaafsma
- Karen Park
- Craig Miller
- Hernandez, Jess
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Welcome to Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
Since 2004, the President of the United States and Congress have declared October to be Cybersecurity Awareness Month, time dedicated for the public and private sectors to work together to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity.
Over the years it has grown into a collaborative effort between government and industry to enhance cybersecurity awareness, encourage actions by the public to reduce online risk,…
Summer is coming to a close and the SPU community is beginning to return in mass to campus. It's been a busy summer in CIS. Whether you are instructing in-person classes, 100% online, or hybrid, there are steps you can take to make sure campus technology is a valuable resource and not a stumbling block. Please, add checking out your classrooms and updating your computer to your return to campus plans.…
Introducing Hybrid Classrooms to Campus
In an effort to support additional modes of teaching on campus, Technology Support Services (TSS) and Educational Technology & Media (ETM) are working together to pilot three hybrid/remote classrooms, to develop a long-term plan for providing support and to continue to add more hybrid paces on campus.…
Matthew Migration
All files previously stored on Matthew should now be migrated to SharePoint or be in read-only mode for a short while until the old storage platform is retired. If you still rely on access to any files on Matthew, please contact cis-bst@spu.edu mailto:cis-bst@spu.edu so you don’t lose access to those files.
Zoom Client Upgrade
Zoom will be deprecating older versions of the Zoom client over the next few months. To prevent disruption,…
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Deployment for Windows 11 devices has begun! It has been announced that Microsoft will cease support for Windows 10 by the end of 2025, so CIS is proactively initialing our Windows 11 deployment process to stay ahead of the curve.
While Windows 11 has been available for a couple of years now, we understand that it may be new to some of you who have not yet upgraded. Our goal is to ensure a smooth and comfortable transition for all users. With this,…
The New Microsoft Teams
Microsoft has released a new update to its Microsoft Teams platform that came into effect October 5, 2023, but all Windows and Mac users will be automatically shifted to the new version in January 2024. All information is derived from Microsoft Support, which you can view in Microsoft's article: Switch to the new Microsoft Teams https://support.microsoft.…