Smoogle has arrived! Smith collaboration, powered by Google
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The Office of Smith IT is pleased to announce that Smoogle has now launched for our Graduate Students. Smoogle is a suite of online applications, comprising of email, calendar, contacts, documents, websites, groups and more. The new incoming class of Fall 2012 will all be given Smoogle accounts and our existing Graduate Students will be migrated from the Lotus-based Smith mail system in Fall 2012. However our existing students can migrate ahead of schedule by creating their Smoogle accounts, and we will begin forwarding your Smith mail to your Smoogle account as well as converting your existing messages, calendar events and contacts from your Lotus-based Smith mailbox to your new Smoogle account..
To get started existing grad students log in at smoogle.rhsmith.umd.edu/GiveMeSmoogle and click the Create My Account button and we’ll take care of the rest. While we set up forwarding and convert your data, go to the Smoogle homepage at smoogle.rhsmith.umd.edu and find out all about the new services. You’ll be pleased to find that when logging in to Smoogle through your browser you can now login with your University Directory ID and password. (If you want to access your Smoogle account with a smartphone app or another email client such as Outlook or Thunderbird then you can quickly set up a Smoogle/Google password in a few seconds).
We are very excited to be bringing these services to our community and highly recommend finding out more about them from the Smoogle homepage. Check out the FAQs from the menus on the left if you have any questions, or contact the Office of Smith IT Helpdesk on 301 405 2269 or by email helpme@rhsmith.umd.edu.
Take free classes from Harvard or MIT?
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by mmaxson
in Announcements
What do you think of this announcement by Harvard and MIT?
'The Single Biggest Change in Education Since the Printing Press' – The Atlantic.
More about the program at http://www.edxonline.org/
Smith IT Server maintenance window, Friday May 4th, 2AM-7AM
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by Chris Gleeson
in Maintenance
To: Smith Community
From: Office of Smith IT
This is a notice to advise you of the upcoming Server Maintenance Outage that will occur at 2am Friday, May 4th and last until 7am Friday, May 4th. During this outage all of the Smith Lotus servers will be getting patched with the latest Security and Critical Updates that Microsoft and Lotus have released. All Lotus-based Smith School services will be affected due to reboots that are required when the patches are installed. The Active Directory File Server will also be restarted. Email delivery inbound and outbound will be queued and messages delivered once the servers are placed back into production.
The following services will be effected during the outage:
BES – Blackberry Enterprise Server
Email (Incoming and Outgoing)
Sametime
UNet
MBA Networth
Smith Website
Application Databases that run from Lotus Notes
Active Directory File Server (K and O Drive)
Please direct any questions to the Office of Smith IT Help Desk at helpme@rhsmith.umd.edu or 301-405-2269.
We apologize for any inconvenience that the outage may cause.
Office of Smith IT
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Learning Enhancement Grant Program due May 4
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The Office of Undergraduate Studies and the Center for Teaching Excellence are pleased to sponsor the Learning Enhancement Mini-Grant program for the 2012-2013 academic year. Proposals are due by COB May 4, 2012. This program supports instructional changes that improve undergraduate teaching and learning. Individual faculty members, as well as departmental or interdisciplinary clusters, are invited to apply. Successful applicants will receive $6,000 in recognition of their contributions to improving undergraduate learning. Up to ten awards will be given. Funds may be supplemented with matching departmental or college funds.
For more information and to submit a proposal go to the CTE website and click on Course & Curriculum Improvement Learning Enhancement Mini-Grants (http://cte.umd.edu/programs/faculty1/LEM/).
Sincerely,
Donna
Donna B. Hamilton
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean for Undergraduate Studies
University of Maryland
2110 Marie Mount Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Tel. 301-405-9354
Fax. 301-314-9896
www.ugst.umd.edu
Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference
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The sixth annual conference to showcase what innovative things UMCP faculty are doing will be held on April 26 and 27. There is still time to register! Go to http://www.oit.umd.edu/twt/ for a full conference schedule, descriptions of the sessions and a link to register.
Important Mac Virus Report
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by mmaxson
in Uncategorized
Press reports have been released about a significant piece of malware that can infect Macs that have not received a java update released on Tuesday. At this time, campus has identified a few dozen (primarily student) systems on the wireless network that are behaving in a manner that suggests they may be infected.
Instructions from F-Secure on detection and removal can be found here:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_osx_flashback_i.shtml
If you need assistance, please contact the Smith IT Helpdesk and our technicians can assist you.
According to F-Secure, the trojan will not install if it detects that Microsoft Word or Skype is installed.
Again, please feel free to contact us if you need assistance.
Faculty are recording for classes and students are watching
0Last year there were 9 Business School Faculty using the then new lecture capture tool, Panopto, to record everything from exam reviews and lectures before a holiday to short voice over demos of how to use a tool on their desktop for their classes. Now there are 32 faculty using it in 46 unique courses. In the past 11 months there have been 270 recordings with over 7600 views of these recordings and over 2300 hours of students watching them. If you’d like to see an example of a recording or see the simple steps for using Panopto, you can start here: http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/smithit/AcademicTechnology/Panopto.aspx. You can also contact bbhelp@rhsmith.umd.edu for a help getting started.
While Panopto is primarily an asynchronous tool, but has added streaming capability too. Smith IT will be testing that feature thoroughly and will post info about it on our Panopto webpages when we’re confident that it is reliable and easy to use.
Engaging our millennial students
0An interesting article in today’s Washington Post. It describes how college lecture halls are moving towards more active learning for students. Many of you have been using some of the techniques mentioned for years. http://ter.ps/lecturehall
Thanks for sharing it Carol!
Keeping an eye on your (not) spam more frequently
0We use Postini’s Anti-Spam service to keep your mailbox clean of unwanted email. More than 2 million messages a month are stopped from hitting our community’s mailboxes, leaving more time for the important things in life. Currently Postini sends a digest of quarantined emails every few days to your inbox, however starting on February 15th we will be changing the reporting so you’ll get a daily digest. Although this means an extra email a day in your inbox, it will allow you to scan your queue much more frequently. You’ll still be able to login to your Postini account whenever you want and manually check your quarantine or change the aggressiveness of the filters.
You can find out more about logging into Postini and changing your settings with this article from our training website: http://training.rhsmith.umd.edu/Anti-spam+solution+-+Postini
Office of Smith IT
http://training.rhsmith.umd.edu
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