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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
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.
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,