{"id":1861,"date":"2012-05-25T12:22:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T16:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/?p=1861"},"modified":"2012-05-25T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T16:22:23","slug":"it-matters-spring-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/2012\/05\/25\/it-matters-spring-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"IT Matters &#8211; Spring 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/matrix.scranton.edu\/pir\/its\/it-matters\/IT_Matters_vol_2_5.pdf\">Spring 2012 edition of IT Matters<\/a> is now available. It&#8217;s got a lot of good news and progress to share, so it&#8217;s worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>Items of particular interest to faculty:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Email and calendar migrations are pretty much complete (p. 1).\u00a0 On the whole the transition went very smoothly, so our hats off to the email team!<\/li>\n<li>Summary of the LMS Work Group process and decision (p. 2).<\/li>\n<li>Upcoming issues in IT include <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bring_your_own_device\">Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)<\/a> and a new focus on risk management (p. 3).<\/li>\n<li>Classroom mediation updates for the Science Center and Brennan (p. 4).<\/li>\n<li>Royal Card upgrade to Blackboard Transact (p. 5).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desktop_virtualization\">VDI<\/a> (aka thin client computing) is being piloted in the Library (p. 6).<\/li>\n<li>ITDA is reworking the Math Placement System (p. 7).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The newsletter really makes it clear how many projects our IR staff members have been juggling.\u00a0 From a TAG perspective, we&#8217;re gratified that IR staff members have worked hard to keep us in the loop and to seek faculty feedback on the projects that affect us and our teaching. We&#8217;re looking forward to 2012-2013 as another busy but productive year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring 2012 edition of IT Matters is now available. It&#8217;s got a lot of good news and progress to share, so it&#8217;s worth a read. Items of particular interest to faculty: Email and calendar migrations are pretty much complete (p. 1).\u00a0 On the whole the transition went very smoothly, so our hats off to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[485],"tags":[523,528,781,601,664,695],"class_list":["post-1861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","tag-calendaring","tag-classroom-mediation-2","tag-email","tag-it-matters","tag-royal-card","tag-thin-clients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}