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Would you like to view other calendars in Outlook on the web?

Outlook on the web allows you to add other calendars to your view. It will depend upon the permissions level granted to you on how much detail you can see on the calendar (free/busy, limited details, or full details). This is helpful if you schedule appointments regularly with another person or resource such as a conference room.

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Learn Office 365: Top resources to browse over winter break

by Information Technology Services

Over the holiday break, K-Staters who want a jumpstart on learning Office 365 email and calendaring should check out these top resources created by Information Technology Services.

  1. Explore more than 100 K-State articles on how to use  Office 365: 
  2. Prior to the migration Jan. 6, 2014, do the steps in the Office 365 pre-migration checklist.
  3. Discuss Office 365 socially with other K-Staters. Join K-State’s Office 365 Migration group on Yammer. It’s a social venue (similar to Facebook) specifically for those with  @ksu.edu addresses.  Create an @ksu.edu account first. See K-State’s Getting Started with Yammer resource.
  4. Bookmark and visit K-State’s Office 365 website at k-state.edu/its/office365.

Learn Office 365: Training and question-answer sessions scheduled

by Information Technology Services

Information Technology Services will continue offering “Introduction to Office 365″ sessions throughout December. Introductory sessions will be offered in the Hale Library Hemisphere Room and the K-State Student Union Little Theatre. There will also be opportunities to join Q&A sessions via Zoom. No registration is required for any of these sessions. Continue reading “Learn Office 365: Training and question-answer sessions scheduled”

How to transfer grades from K-State Online to iSIS

Did you know you can transfer final grades from K-State Online to iSIS?

Did you know it is possible to have a student in your K-State Online roster and NOT in your iSIS roster?

Did you know that you can learn the proper process to set your grading rules and grading scale in K-State Online, at training sessions starting Tuesday, Dec. 3?  Continue reading “How to transfer grades from K-State Online to iSIS”

Learn Office 365: Getting started with calendars

by Information Technology Services

Webapp calendar quick start guide

The campus is in the process of migrating to Office 365. To begin learning about the calendar component of Office 365, check out the following tutorials and reference guides:

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Report from Email Upgrade Committee is available online

from Rebecca Gould

The Email Upgrade Committee submitted its report to Ken Stafford, CIO, in late December. The report (PDF format) is available online for review by K-Staters. The committee decided to collect more in-depth information about calendar functionality from users. This information was used to determine if necessary and critical features were available in Google Apps for Education and Microsoft Office 365. Committee members are in the process of comparing the functionality to both solutions and will meet with university administration soon to discuss their findings.

IT events to mark on your 2013 calendar

Jan. 1-Feb. 13 — Password-change timeframe for spring semester at K-State

Jan. 17 (Thu) — Digital Signage Open House, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Hale Library Hemisphere Room

Jan. 22 (Tue) — Media Development Center reopens at 10 a.m. (closed Dec. 15-Jan. 21 for maintenance and updates)

Jan. 22 (Tue) — Call-for-proposals deadline, K-State Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference

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Email upgrade committee hosting calendar function demonstration

By Melissa Morris

The email upgrade committee will have a demonstration of the calendar functions in Google Apps for Education and Microsoft 365 from 1:30-3 p.m. today in the Big 12 Room at the K-State Student Union.

Seth Galitzer, computing and information sciences, and David Williams, housing and dining services, will be presenting the calendar functions. To ensure adequate space, please RSVP and provide any questions that you would like to see addressed in the presentation to https://surveys.ksu.edu/TS?offeringId=202278.

(Editor’s note: Reprinted from K-State Today’s article published Dec. 12, 2012.)

Oracle Calendar to be decommissioned on July 1

Information Technology Services transitioned to K-State Zimbra Calendar on June 28, 2010. As part of the transition, Oracle Calendar will be decommissioned on July 1 this year. K-Staters with data still in Oracle Calendar have options to archive their data; instructions are available on the Moving Oracle Calendar data to Zimbra Calendar webpage.

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Faculty/staff: Archive your Oracle Calendar events

The university transitioned from Oracle Calendar to K-State Zimbra Calendar over the summer. Oracle Calendar is still available as an archive, but will be decommissioned in early 2011.

Easy-to-follow instructions are available for you to export your Oracle Calendar data and then import it into K-State Zimbra. This will allow you to have a copy of past events from your Oracle Calendar accessible in your K-State Zimbra Calendar. Other Oracle Calendar archiving options are available if you’d rather not import your past events into K-State Zimbra.

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