Using the Cloud Responsibly An FAQ for Legal Holds, E-Discovery, and Business Continuity Have you considered your department’s business continuity procedures when storing department information in locations such as Google Shared Drive, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft OneDrive? Can your department access needed information if you [...]
Microsoft Forms Let's Collaborate! Microsoft Forms is a tool for collecting information by polls, surveys, and quizzes. Forms integrates with a variety of tools such as teams, outlook, and websites that allow you to collect results from a variety of sources. As part of DoIT's commitment to training, [...]
You wish you could go home at five o’clock each day, but students expect to have access to your services 24/7. Increasingly, student services have been moved online so our computers can support the services while you take a break. We host more than 70 customer-facing custom and vendor-supported applications on our servers. Staff and [...]
Are You an E-Commerce Merchant at Texas A&M? TouchNet is Transitioning to FlyWire Here's What You Need to Know The Transition from TouchNet to Flywire will begin in the Fall of 2021. All new Payments must be off TouchNet by the end of 2021. Access to TouchNet [...]
KeePass One Password to Rule Them All As many of you know, the rules around Duo Authentication and the “remember me” function were changed recently. Previously Duo would remember an authentication for 60 days, so we weren’t having to constantly re-authenticate through Duo, however, since the change went [...]
Microsoft Word More Than Just Writing Microsoft Word is the industry standard for creating written documents, but it can do so much more than just writing. Did you know that Word can connect to outlook to send mass emails? Or that you can create a document outline [...]
Microsoft Excel Making the Most of Spreadsheets Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool for creating spreadsheets and calculations. The power of Microsoft Excel is often underrated, and its ability to work with other programs is excellent. Excel has its place working with Outlook email backups, Automatically [...]
Microsoft Visio Decision Trees, Process Flows, Diagrams, and Flowcharts with Visio Microsoft Visio Visio is an innovative solution that helps you visualize data-connected business process flows with a host of integrated features. It's great for making things like flowcharts, decision trees, process flows, organizational charts, and even relating data [...]
Microsoft PowerPoint Let's Collaborate Most people are familiar with using Microsoft PowerPoint to create slides for presentations. But are you actually getting the most out of your PowerPoint? Setting up timings, using animations, making you're slide more accessible to a broader range of people, are all valuable tools [...]
Try to “crack the code” on this problem: You have one month to find a way to safely welcome 27,000 people to campus, but no vendor has a solution that can be delivered in time. That was the problem confronting New Student & Family Programs (NSFP), an office in the Offices of the Dean of [...]