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20 posts tagged "OIT"

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Switch from Sakai to Canvas excites campus, raises issues

Connor Marrott | Thursday, September 2, 2021

Since 2011, Sakai has been a key component of students’ educations as the primary hub for online resources, assignments, grades and communication with professors. However, as the University welcomed back fully in-person instruction, it has also mandated a transition for select faculty from Sakai to Canvas as the new Learning Management System (LMS).  The University’s

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OIT investigating phishing email scams sent to ND students

Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, July 24, 2019

The Office of Information Technologies (OIT) sent out an email Wednesday afternoon to the Notre Dame student body alerting it to phishing emails sent in the last few days. The phishing scam involves “an offer for employment or opportunity to participate in a work-study program, and requests contact and personal information,” the OIT email said.

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A brief synopsis of recent OIT activity

Andrew Rebholz | Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Friday, March 8, 8:38 a.m. — Greetings, Notre Dame student body. Though we realize most of you have evacuated campus for your various spring break plans, we’d still like to send a short email about the current status of connectivity on campus. Sorry to take up your time. Hopefully this won’t be too much of

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Office of the Registrar returns to DART registration system

Natalie Weber | Monday, April 16, 2018

After experiencing delays and slowness during course registration last semester, the Office of the Registrar has decided to return to DART registration and take down the NOVO system for the duration of this semester’s registration period. Both DART and NOVO were designed by the company Ellucian Banner, University registrar Chuck Hurley said. When NOVO was

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NOVO system crashes during junior class registration times

Courtney Becker | Thursday, November 16, 2017

The course registration process was more stressful than usual for many Notre Dame juniors Wednesday morning when the NOVO registration system unexpectedly malfunctioned. Chris Corrente, the manager of student solutions in the Office of Information Technology (OIT), said the amount of traffic during registration overloaded the system. “The University’s class registration system runs on two

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OIT provides update on new Wi-Fi arrangements

Natalie Weber | Thursday, September 21, 2017

Last spring, the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) announced that the University would change its main Wi-Fi network from “ND-secure” to “eduroam.” Since the transition to the new network over the summer, OIT has encouraged students to switch to eduroam, in place of Notre Dame’s guest network, “ND-guest.” “The change to use eduroam for secure

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Notre Dame implements new ID card program

Ciara Hopkinson | Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Over the summer, Notre Dame began implementing the new Irish1Card system, a project that has been in the works for years and includes the smart chip ID cards every student received during welcome week. The change, Irish1Card program director Daniel Tormey said, focused on improving security, but also lays the foundation for new, even more

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Students, faculty receive Google Drive spam messages

Observer Staff Report | Wednesday, May 3, 2017

The Office of Information Technologies (OIT) worked to stop the spread of spam messages from Notre Dame accounts disguised as invitations to share Google Docs on Wednesday, according to an email sent to the Notre Dame community. According to the email, the spread of these spam messages is a worldwide problem that Google is working to resolve.

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No administrator accounts compromised during ‘phishing attack’

Megan Valley | Friday, February 10, 2017

A spam email that appeared to be sent from provost Thomas Burish’s account Tuesday morning was sent to more than 2,000 faculty, staff and students, Jason Williams, director of information security at the Office of Information Technologies (OIT), said in an email. “We have not yet determined how or where the perpetrator obtained the email

Viewpoint

Unnecessary second check

Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Several days ago the Office of Information Technology (OIT) notified the student body through an email that simple user/password logins would be replaced with a user-registered authentication key. Their idea is to improve security through increasing the number of physical devices that must be compromised before access to Notre Dame online services (such as email,

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