As you know, last week we had our ODS Finance functional training. We not only built the two custom data cubes and related reports required for Go Live, but we also built a General Ledger cube and the beginnings of a Grants Accounting cube. Two…

Austin, Texas Joins National Day of Civic Hacking to Tackle Local Social Challenges with Government Data Austin creates the opportunity for citizens to get involved in serving their community by using technology to create new, innovative applications and platforms.

All members of the St. Edward's University community who routinely access Business Office services and features are invited to attend the Banner Finance training sessions offered by the Business Office and the Office of Information Technology. Training Session Types Three different types of trainings will be offered…

The definition for Operational Data Store (ODS) varies depending on the source, but according to Wikipedia, an ODS is “a database designed to integrate data from multiple sources for additional operations on the data. The data is then passed back to operational systems for further…

Update 3/21/2013:The first stage of our responsive design rollout has gone without a hitch, so we are happy to announce that the next piece of the rollout will take place on March 29 when we reveal the new, responsive front page of Think! All the…

This March, the Office of Information Technology and Enterprise Information Systems teams are upgrading the hardware that runs EdWeb. We are performing these administrative enhancements and security improvements to ensure that our old system is adequately resourced and positioned to serve us until it is…

Beginning in late January, we have experienced Blackboard outages every four to five days. Our Systems team, operating under Blackboard best practices and according to recommendations from their support technicians, made some adjustments to systems settings on February 19 in order to mitigate the risk…

The version of Basecamp currently utilized in CLIMB has reached end-of-life so we're upgrading this software-as-a-service to new Basecamp. Training will be provided to help users adjust to the new look and feel. We will begin taking advantage of the new features, including file labels…

St. Edward's University students, faculty, and staff have the option to use VarsityBuys.com to purchase and download the available software products for personal use. Some of these products include Office 365 University for students, faculty, and staff, and Office Professional Plus 2013 for faculty and…

If you have participated in one of the portal focus groups on campus, you may be somewhat familiar with the concept and the product named "Luminis." For most of the St. Edward's community, however, this addition to our digital landscape can be somewhat confusing at…

We know it can be difficult to keep up with emails, social media updates, Horizon notices, and alerts, so the Office of Information Technology has made it even easier for you to get updates about our planned maintenance as soon as we have them. OIT's Maintenance…

We are currently experiencing communication disruptions with Blackboard. Our Digital Infrastructure team is currently working on a resolution. We will keep you posted with progressions. Please contact the Help Desk (helpline@stedwards.edu) with specific questions.

We are pleased to announce that the ERP implementation project at St. Edward's University has officially been named. The winning entry to the naming contest is:CARSLeaving;ImplementingBanner, orCLIMB. The winning project name was submitted by Michael Marks, Application Programming Manager here at St. Edward's University. A prize…

See below for an infographic recap of the ERP implementation project kick off. Watch this space for more information on the project and for an upcoming special announcement of the winner of the project naming competition!

The encrypted SEU wireless network offers supplemental internet access for faculty, staff, and students. In any office or teaching space where a hard-wired connection is available, the Office of Information Technology recommends that you physically connect to the wired network. However, the ubiquitous wireless is…

As part of our ongoing commitment to supporting a 21st century learning environment, the Office of Information Technology (OIT) is pleased to announce the completion of our ubiquitous wireless initiative. Secure, reliable wireless network access is now available across the St. Edward’s University campus.

This Fall, Instructional Technology will launch a brand-new YouTube channel featuring short video tutorials answering some of the most frequently asked questions IT gets about supported tools and software. This summer, interns from Instructional Technology were tasked with producing several of these videos. In this…

Computer Labs/Media Support have relocated the library computers to two new computer labs on campus. Both labs are ready to use and open to ALL students: Doyle 317 - 11 PC's, 3 iMacs, Printer, Scanner Lab Hours - Monday-Thursday, 8am-6:30pm Saturday - Closed Sunday - 12pm-6:30pm Johnson Hall, 1st…

Don’t produce electronic waste (e-Waste or e-Scrap). e-Waste can be defined as loosely, discarded, surplus, obsolete, or broken electrical or electronic devices, according to Round2 a national electronics recycling company that provides integrated and customizable electronics recycling services. St. Edward's University is working with Round2 to…

Blogging isn't easy, especially in a university setting where we are often held to a higher standard with the content we create. Here are 5 tips to make sure that our posts always live up to that higher standard and contain our very best work.

As did many in our industry the St. Edward's web team spent the last 4 days drinking from the firehose of the tech industry known as South by Southwest (SXSW). It was 4 days of sessions, shows, food, networking, and general insanity that really has…

New Media Center, Scarborough-Phillips Library Create your own professional audio recordings without background noises and interruptions.

The email servers will be unavailable for approximately 30 minutes starting at 10 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3. The email administrators need to do some necessary maintenance on the servers. During this time, there will be no access to email from Zimbra WebMail or any…

As Spring semester begins, Web Services would like introduce two new members to the St. Edward's web team. Chris Wiegman - Developer

No ETA at this time.

Due to a bug in our version of Blackboard (Blackboard 9.1 Service Pack 4) course copies of materials between Blackboard 9.1 classes may result in files that are inaccessible by students. This problem only affects course materials copied from Blackboard 9.1 by instructors. Courses imported…

Today, we are happy to announce m.stedwards.edu, a mobile site built for students, faculty, and staff to get helpful information on the go.

Since the start of the semester you may have noticed that the teacher’s stations in all the classrooms have been upgraded to Windows 7 and Office 2010. If your PowerPoint presentations are not loading correctly using the PowerPoint 2010, such as links not loading or…

Do you have an iPad? Do you use Blackboard for classes? If so, you can access Blackboard on your iPad by using the Blackboard Mobile Learn app! You can view documents, post to discussions and post to blogs, wikis or journals.

As many of you may know, we had some issues earlier today with people being able to edit content on Think. First off, we wanted to apologize for anyone who ran into problems. Second, we wanted to give everyone some information on what happened and…

A big “thank you” to everyone who attended the Marketing U session today about blogging university news on Think. The Marketing U showcased how to use the new featuresand functions of the Think News Blogs and university's online calendar.

We've moved our office to the 3rd floor Moody Hall just to the right of the Help Desk entrance. We've expanded the Edit Bay to create a space where you can check-out digital equipment and get editing help in the same place! Drop by and…

As you already know, when Think was launched, we introduced the ability for offices to blog. This was a feature a number of different areas across campus were wanting to see and we're glad to see blog posts appearing across the university website. But if you're…

Students, staff or faculty are not able to log into library, lab and classroom computers. If you are already login you should not be effected. On faculty and staff office computers you should be able to login but it will take a long time to…

We have made, and continue to make, substantial investments to ensure that SEU’s server and network infrastructure is as reliable aspossible.

Students can sign up via Rave Alerts to receive text or email messages from their Blackboard classes whenever a new announcement, grade or assignment is posted. It's simple and faculty don't need to do anything to enable this feature. By default all text and email…

Are you feeling frustrated with the new email/calendaring system or need a refresher on Microsoft Office 2007 to get productivity rolling in your department or office? Then we may have a solution for you, I.T. is offering Computer Training for your Department. The Computer Training…

Have you been sent an email informing you are reaching your Mail Quota from postmaster@stedwards.edu? These steps will help you learn what to do when this happens to your email account.

Accessing Email from Home In July of this year St. Edward's moved to a unified email and calendaring system that allows you to check your email and calendar on almost any device using our Zimbra Collaboration server.

If you have used the course copy feature to copy Turnitin Assignments from past semesters we highly recommend that you delete those copies and recreate the Turnitin Assignments. The Turnitin plug-in that was upgraded on August 19th is several versions later than the prior version (1.4.7)…

Meeting requests are sent to invitees by the organizer of the appointment or meeting. In order for the organizer to see if you will be attending the meeting, you must accept and notify the organizer that you will be attending the meeting. View in Zimbra Calendar: In…

Storing and Organizing Files Properly storing and organizing your digital documents will go a long way towards making your files easy to find and reference later. However, often the biggest issue is creating and maintaining a consistent system that will not leave you wondering where you…