October 2009 IT News
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Annual Information Security Awareness Day
On Thursday, October 29th, The University of Utah Information Security and Privacy Office and Office of Information Technology are sponsoring the 2nd annual campus Information Security Awareness Day. We would like to invite you to join us for information booths, free software, food, prizes & other great give-aways from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. in the Union ballroom.
Back by popular demand, our guest speaker, Linda Criddle will present “Online – Confidently, Securely, and Safely.” There will also be several 30-minute breakout sessions presented by our own IT experts covering a range of information security topics.
To see the agenda for the day’s events and enter a drawing for an iPod, please visit our website at http://www.secureit.utah.edu/isad/index.html
ITPPO Award
Each year Planview, the makers of the comprehensive portfolio management software Planview Enterprise (UPlanIT), offers awards to customers who exhibit excellence in the use of their product.
This year our ITPPO team was recognized during the Planview Horizons Annual User Conference. The awards committee selected The University of Utah as a winner of the 2009 Planview Award for Vision. They were acknowledged for their use of Planview Enterprise (UPlanIT) to demonstrate accountability through their dual approach of covering both portfolio management and project management processes.
Congratulations to the ITPPO team!
New Online Campus Directory
The Office of IT has been working hard on getting our online campus phone directory updated and trying to improve the user experience with this important public facing web site. The directory will be launched under its own domain name (people.utah.edu) and ready for beta testing sometime in early November.
Some of the things to look forward to in the new directory are a much simplified search interface as well as an advanced search, an A-Z departmental directory, improved searching across more data elements (name, phone, email, department, etc…), map links for department listings and displaying all positions on a single page for faculty and staff that have multiple appointments. Watch for the official go-live announcement coming soon!
New Graphic Format For Student Course Evaluations
– by Starlee Holman
When signing up for new classes, students often like to know what they are getting themselves into. Luckily course evaluations are filled out each term by students who have taken the class before.
Administrative Computing Services (ACS) has now made this information even easier to access and understand. The raw evaluation data is still available for students to see, but graphs now depict the average responses in comparison to the overall average for the subject and the University for both the course and the instructor.
The links to the course evaluations went live October 5th and can be found on the class schedule, but you must be logged into CIS to access the results.
