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-18 posts tagged "OIT"
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
Observer Staff Report | Friday, September 23, 2016
Police officers responded to a call about a suspicious package in the bushes on the south side of the Galvin Life Sciences Center on Thursday afternoon, University spokesperson Dennis Brown said. A passerby noticed the container around 1:30 p.m. and contacted Notre Dame Security Police (NDSP), who roped off the area, Brown said. South Bend
Andrew Cameron | Friday, September 23, 2016
In January, the Office of Information Technologies (OIT) made Zoom freely available to all students, faculty and staff at Notre Dame. OIT product program manager Paul Drake said in an email the service is a “best-in-class video and audio conferencing service and the preferred tool for conferencing at Notre Dame.” Zoom allows up to 50 people