OIT Technology News: April 2024 Edition
Are your tech skills feeling dull or do you just want to discover something new? Join OIT for the 2024 Spring Skills Sharpener training series! From April 15 to May 15, we’re offering over two dozen training courses, both in-person and via webinar, on popular topics like Excel, Microsoft Teams, Wiki.SMU, Adobe Express, and more for our faculty and staff.
In the past several months, SMU’s Earth Sciences Department and SMU’s Office of Information Technology (OIT) networking have collaborated to test a new fiber optic interrogator.
The Registrar's Office and OIT recently partnered to create new trainings on how to understand both the Degree Progress Report and the Degree Progress Report (DPR) Summary features that are available in my.SMU.
Microsoft's new Copilot AI assistant has been getting much press of late with the tool being an easily available companion when browsing the Internet, working with documents, and helping with generic requests. We all know that starting to work with an AI chatbot can be overwhelming, but LinkedIn Learning has several courses to help you get started.
The initial rollout of the new Salesforce Marketing Cloud platform for Annual Giving and Alumni Relations and Meadows School of the Arts has begun including establishing a new subscription center, which will help manage the messages a subscriber receives from SMU.
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Quick Tip: Clearing Cache and Cookies for Individual Sites
In this OIT Quick Tip, Zach Peterson goes over how to remove cache and cookies for just an individual site as opposed to wiping away everything.