OIT Technology News:
Spring 2023 Edition

OIT celebrates another significant milestone with our Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) Certification program—. Amanda Maruster completed both her Excel Associate and Excel Expert Certification alongside 310 SMU ITOM students.

Recently, some improvements have been made to Simple Syllabus to help align with SMU in Four and to provide faculty a way to meet the three current syllabus requirements in .

OIT is migrating Exchange mailboxes to Microsoft 365, giving faculty & staff a . This project is the first step in a series, including new spam filtering & email security.

OSU recently visited SMU to see how we are , the NVIDIA DGXSuperPOD, and research support services.

Approximately 700 computers will become eligible on June 1 for replacement through the University Technology Fund. Read about the .

Various classrooms will receive during the new fiscal year.

OIT staff recently worked with Enrollment Services to create a new that takes the GPA data from PeopleSoft and allows specific administrators to quickly and easily search for grade information.

We have been working feverishly to add several this year. Here are a few you should know about.

In Canvas Corner, we discuss the new features and enhancements available in Canvas. will be available in Canvas on the 3rd weekend of the month.

Our popular Sitecore basics training to help those of us that are not web developers but tasked with adding/editing content in existing Sitecore.

Effective February 27, 2023, OIT implemented to reduce "MFA Fatigue."

This issue focuses on the generative AI everyone is talking about—ChatGPT. Most everything written in this month's newsletter was .

 


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