IT Press

Due to database maintenance being performed this weekend, several IT web applications such as the password changer and Listserv tools will be unavailable for up to four hours between 8:00am and 12:00pm on Saturday, November 14. 

For any questions about this, or any other issue, please contact the Help Desk at 573-341-HELP. 

IT would like to remind everyone that our typical maintenance window is every Thursday from 10:00pm until 2:00am. We will be seeing an outage of virtual machines during this timeframe on Thursday, November 12.

Please call the Help Desk with questions about these or any other issues at 573-341-HELP (4357).  

The Virtual Center software will be down for maintenance for 3-4 hours, starting at 5 p.m. this Thursday, Oct. 22.  This will specifically affect the VM VSphere client, and will have no impact on customer access to basic IT services on campus (e.g. email, Internet, etc.).

If you have any questions about this issue, please contact the IT Help Desk at 573-341-HELP.

Microsoft has released several new critical updates for Office 2007 and Vista.  As a result, you may experience multiple reboots during the early part of next week while these updates are downloaded by your computer and installed.  If you're working on sensitive or important files during these updates, you will be able to delay the reboot process when prompted for the next two weeks, after which time your computer will automatically reboot itself. Vista computers may need to immediately reboot after the Vista update is installed.

Please note that shutting your computer down may be delayed up to one hour after you  attempt to power down your computer. If you don't take your computer home with you, simply leave the computer on to install these updates and allow it to shut itself down. If you use a laptop that you frequently take home, please allow time in the next week or so to allow your computer to fully download and install these updates after you shut down your computer.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you have any questions, please contact the IT Help Desk at 573-341-HELP.

MOREnet, which provides core network services to Missouri S&T and other campuses, will be performing maintenance on UMSL's network from midnight to 1 a.m. on Sunday, October 18, 2009.

As a result, Blackboard at Missouri S&T will be unavailable during the maintenance window.

Other IT services will still be available.

Please call the Help Desk with questions about this or any other issue at 573-341-HELP (4357).

IT would like to remind everyone that our typical maintenance window is every Thursday from 10:00pm until 2:00am. We will be seeing an outage of many software packages during this timeframe on Thursday, October 15.

Please call the Help Desk with questions about these or any other issues at 573-341-HELP (4357).  

Blackboard has a number of options for enabling guest access to enable  access to a course to individuals who are not currently enrolled in a course. It is also possible to limit guest access to specific areas or tools within a course.

For complete details, continue reading this post at the Missouri S&T EdTech Connect blog.

EdTech and IT are opening up the CLC software request process for faculty who need specific software packages installed in computer learning centers across campus.

All software requests should be submitted to IT for processing no later than close of business on October 30, 2009.

Software currently available in each of the CLCs on campus can be found at:

http://it.mst.edu/clc/

To request software be installed in a CLC, send an email to edtech@mst.edu that includes the following information:
 

IT would like to remind everyone that our typical maintenance window is every Thursday from 10:00pm until 2:00am. We will be seeing an interruption of network services during this timeframe on Thursday, October 8.

Please call the Help Desk with questions about these or any other issues at 573-341-HELP (4357).  

Educational Technology is now accepting presentation proposals for the Third Annual Teaching and Learning Technology Conference, scheduled for March 11-12, 2010. Interested presenters can download a copy of the Call for Proposal form at our web site: edtech.mst.edu.

 

This year's theme will be Cyberlearning.

 

Proposals will be accepted until November 20, 2009. The conference schedule will be finalized around December 11, 2009. At that time submitters will be notified of acceptance.

 

Keynote Speaker:

 

Dr. Joel Hartman -- Vice Provost for Information Technologies and Resources at the University of Central Florida.  Dr. Hartman has been instrumental in leading the University of Central Florida in the arena of online and blended learning.