To make it easier to report possible security risks, ITaP is adding a report phishing button to both the desktop and web versions of Outlook for Office 365.
Faculty and staff can begin planning to access Brightspace this spring in preparation for the move away from Blackboard Learn.
Purdue Innovative Learning is hosting workshops for faculty, staff and students interested in learning more about using the Quality Matters Higher Ed Rubric for course design
Faculty and staff are invited to discuss the launch process for online courses and programs with Purdue Online team.
Purdue professor pieces together how massive stars explode using virtual reality
Teams of staff and students solved the mystery of a hacked Purdue account while learning practical cybersecurity tips.
Purdue’s email filters check approximately 30 million messages in a given week and filter out most of the junk mail. Here’s a brief primer on how they work, why they occasionally don’t – or work too well – and what you can do about it.
Envision Center VR app teaches construction workers not to fall
Purdue’s West Lafayette, Northwest and Fort Wayne campuses are preparing for the implementation of the Brightspace learning management system, including the chance for some to teach in Brightspace this spring.
Purdue team chosen to compete in international supercomputing competition
Purdue Online is reviewing digital proctoring tools with the goal of having a centrally supported service for both online and face-to-face classes; a listening session on Nov. 18 gives faculty and staff an opportunity to voice their thoughts.
Innovative Learning invites faculty, staff and graduate students to attend workshops focusing on accessibility and peer-review
Register to attend Purdue’s Innovative Learning workshops designed to help instructors start the semester strong.
Weber cluster available for high-performance computing with controlled research
If every state has its own set of privacy laws, institutions like Purdue will have a hard time complying with them all. For the sake of compliance and simplicity, Purdue’s chief privacy officer, Trent Klingerman, argues for a clear and reasonable federal privacy standard.
Online privacy keeps evolving, so it's important that we keep learning. Dr. Gene Spafford, a world-renowned cybersecurity expert and Purdue faculty member, shares his knowledge and some practical tips for keeping your private information private.
Barbara Gibson says the peer review tool Circuit – developed at Purdue – helps increase student engagement and enhances students’ critical thinking skills.
Purdue is regularly targeted by scam “phishing” emails, like the "cool cash" series offering big money for small jobs. Some of these messages can look quite legitimate, in part because they're sent from compromised Purdue accounts commandeered by scammers.
As Purdue prepares to move to D2L Brightspace, the new learning management system replacing Blackboard Learn, faculty and staff will have opportunities to become familiar with the new system that is targeted to be implemented for the fall 2020 semester.
Learn how faculty can partner with Purdue Libraries to bring 3D printing, GoPro cameras and other Maker tools to their classrooms at the Oct. 11 Tech Today talk.
Whether it’s your Purdue data or data on social media, all identifying data can be used against you in the form of identity theft, phishing or more. ITaP’s deputy CISO gives his advice on how users can best protect their data.
Innovative Learning’s Teaching and Learning Technologies works with colleges, schools and departments to help faculty learn about and implement teaching innovations available to Purdue.
Plans are in development to help faculty move courses from Blackboard Learn to Brightspace by the start of the fall 2020 semester
Susan Modlin, clinical assistant professor of nursing, says the Active Learning Community of Practice helps faculty “define how they see active learning and how they see it in their classroom.”
Gilbreth supercomputer helping Purdue faculty make leaps in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data science
Purdue's nanoHUB@Home project lets anyone contribute to cutting-edge nanotechnology research – no PhD required
Report VPN, network drive, application, other issues to ITaP.
SharePoint users will have trouble using the application while Purdue continues to migrate its computer systems to the new BoilerAD domain. ITaP has instructions to help overcome the issue.
Gradescope, which can help reduce the time instructors spend grading, will be the topic of discussion at the Sept. 6 Tech Today event.
Four one-credit courses offer students a cross-disciplinary view of research and prepare them for independent research projects and graduate school
Purdue team wins best student paper award at national research computing conference
Scholar cluster now features GPUs, increased storage
Teaching reading groups begin Sept. 17
Evolving copyright protection software – designed to prevent pirating of materials – also causes problems in the classroom. ITaP has resources that can help get your videos back on track. Here are tips from ITaP to help instructors get classroom technology up and running quickly as the fall semester commences:
Purdue Innovative Learning helps faculty and staff provide students with fully accessible classroom materials
For instructors, getting the most out of class time often requires uploading presentation materials and priming classroom technology before the start of class. When the clock is ticking, a basic understanding of classroom technology at Purdue and a few best practices can help ensure a seamless transition from pre-class setup to teaching. Here are tips from ITaP to help instructors get classroom technology up and running quickly as the fall semester commences:
Technology evolution drives Purdue to review learning management systems; faculty, staff, and students invited to participate
Cybersecurity Awareness Month event landing page.
After a summer away, students, faculty and staff may need to review where and when to use BoilerKey and test their BoilerKey to ensure it’s working properly. BoilerKey gives students and employees access to important Purdue sites, such as Blackboard and myPurdue.
ITaP pop-up help tents will assist with a variety of Purdue-related technology issues.
ITaP extendeds the life of the Brown community cluster research supercomputer.
Go to the GoldAnswers Knowledge Base with thousands of Purdue-related technical support articles.
Office 365 disappearing calendar items under investigation
Purdue signs three-year contract to keep survey tool Qualtrics; Review of survey tools leads University to keep current system
Purdue’s Box research storage service is a key component of Eli Lilly collaboration
ITaP Research Computing to host annual Symposium for Research Data Technology May 31
Envision Center celebrates 15 years of advancing research, education with virtual reality, data visualization
Faculty, staff and students are invited to learn more about campus accessibility resources on May 16.
Faculty, staff and students are invited to learn more about campus accessibility resources on May 16.
Blackboard Learn will be inaccessible beginning at 7 p.m. on Saturday, May 11, until 1 a.m., Sunday, May 12, for an upgrade that will allow instructors to incorporate documents from cloud-based services such as Google Docs.
“Speed dating” event hopes to introduce instructors to the right educational tool on April 30
Image processing software developed by ITaP staff engineer still used widely 30 years later
Tips for how to spot email scams and phishing attempts
Learning Management System Review team studying evaluations, preparing final report
Purdue SharePoint users and their sites will be moving to SharePoint 2016 from SharePoint 2013 beginning in May.
Learning management system evaluations due by April 5
Innovative Learning Team helps professor build courses her way
Campuswide PAL filtering has been refined, is working.
Creating accessible classrooms, websites and documents part of April workshop offerings
ITaP Research Computing sponsoring data science, supercomputing challenges at Purdue Computing Challenge Day
Cascade content management system to be upgraded March 26
Final learning management system demos set for next week, participants asked for feedback
Purdue intercultural learning center flourishes with the help of HUBzero
Purdue soil scientist digs into data with the help of ITaP Research Computing
Faculty and staff email moving to the cloud – what you need to know
Envision Center celebrating 15th anniversary, unveiling new collaborative virtual reality environment at April 17 open house
PAL filtering expanding campuswide
Reminder: Learning Management System demonstrations scheduled for coming weeks; participants asked to provide evaluations
Beware: Uptick in fraudulent emails asking to change bank account numbers, sensitive information
Students invited to evaluate three potential replacements for Blackboard Learn to
Students invited to evaluate three potential replacements for Blackboard Learn
Tools to help create accessible documents, engage students and grade faster will be featured during March faculty-focused workshops
Learning management system invites three potential replacements for Blackboard Learn to campus
Provost’s office promotes accessibility with help from Innovative Learning Team
Purdue’s Women in HPC group will host Jackie Milhans, manager of research computing services at Northwestern University, from noon to 1 p.m. on Feb. 27 in Rawls Hall, Room 1071. Her presentation “How to Develop Diverse Teams for Increased Innovation and Productivity” will explore diversity and inclusion in recruitment and building effective, innovative and successful teams.
Faculty researchers invited to propose talks for Purdue’s 2019 Dawn or Doom emerging technology conference
Creating a digital learning environment is focus of next Tech Today talk
Polytechnic, ITaP team awarded NSF grant to generate framework for working with regulated data
Cascade website content management system to receive upgrade
ITaP-led team aims to get big data from scientific instruments to computational, storage resources faster, more reliably
February workshops offer introduction to learning tools and accessibility resources
Purdue faculty reflect on the state of data privacy both in and outside of academia
February technology workshops tailored for academic support staff
Requirements for new learning management system outlined in proposal request
New tool helps bring accountability to student peer-review process
Web.ics career account moves to new server Jan. 26