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Do you have questions about D2L? MSU IT Services Teaching & Learning will be setting up D2L help stations across campus for the next year, and will be visiting a hall near you soon. Our goal is to make ourselves available to faculty who need help, have questions about Desire2Learn, or just want to talk about the opportunities this new system provides. Read Full Article →

Cyber attacks on computer systems and networks to obtain personal information and other confidential data take place on a daily basis.

To maintain the integrity and security of our institution’s data, Michigan State University is taking steps to increase the level of protection in systems amassing sensitive and personal information by implementing two-factor authentication in spring 2015. Read Full Article →

MSU IT Services coordinates Seminars in Research and Instructional Technology in the spring and fall for university faculty, academic staff, and graduate assistants.

Fall 2014 seminars are scheduled for December 16 and 17.

The schedule

Participants may choose from a variety of sessions over two days designed to support teaching and research at MSU. Read Full Article →

This year’s theme is Our Shared Responsibility. MSU Information Technology (IT) Security encourages the community to get involved and do their part to make our Internet, MSUnet, safer and more secure for everyone.

• Read information posted on MSU’s technology security site at tech.msu.edu/secureIT/
• Check the STOP-THINK-CONNECT Web site for additional information at staysafeonline.org/

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This is the first of what will be regular updates by the MSU IT Council. These updates are intended to keep the MSU community informed about the topics being tackled, progress made, and recommendations to MSU administration. News updates will contain high-level topic summaries.

The MSU community is encouraged to seek out their IT Council representative or visit the IT Council website for more information on topics of interest. Read Full Article →

MSU faculty member Cathleen McGreal recently participated in the Rooms for Enaged and Active Learning (REAL) Academy and has been teaching in these spaces for the Spring, 2014 semester. She recently took notes on things that worked well and common instructor and student questions. From these notes, McGreal approached IT Services – Teaching & Learning about developing brief video tutorials on these common REAL questions. Read Full Article →

Team Collaboration We work in groups.   Almost everybody does.   Even those who work independent of an organization are not able to skirt collaborating with others. It is part of who we are as humans to be social and collaborative.   We couldn’t do much of anything of significance if this were not the case. Read Full Article →

Update as of May 1, 2014: Microsoft has released an emergency patch for the Internet Explorer vulnerability. Users should apply Windows Updates and then reboot their computer. Microsoft did release a version of the patch for Windows XP systems. Windows XP users should also apply these updates and reboot.

Microsoft released a security advisory (number 2963983) for Internet Explorer (IE) on Saturday, April 26, 2014. Read Full Article →

Access to several core university systems – including ANGEL, Desire2Learn, and computer lab machines – was disrupted Saturday, January 4, between 7:00 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. The source of the problem was traced to a device that was overloading IT Services’ datacenter network and disrupting traffic to the Shibboleth identity authorization system used by the affected services. Read Full Article →

In late 2012 we began a two and a half year conversion to D2L from ANGEL at Michigan State University.  A transition like this is never easy, so we wanted to offer faculty and staff a broad conversion window so you could plan migrations that fit within your program schedule.     With that we have also offered a free supplemental training course designed to help make the transition for ANGEL to D2L as easy as possible, and help you start feeling comfortable in the new system. Read Full Article →