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Month: March 2021

Financial Information System upgrade is complete

Posted on by Christine Doucette

The Financial Information System (FIS) upgrade is complete. This was a required upgrade to Oracle 19c and prepares FIS for a major upgrade that will occur later this fall.

Upgrading is an important step toward the Division of Information Technology (IT), achieving its goal of providing a modern, scalable network and computing infrastructure for K-State. To learn more, view K-State’s IT Strategic Plan.

FIS is the central accounting system utilized by KSU colleges, departments, and administrative units to process payment transactions, reporting, and manage grant post-awards.

Financial Information System upgrade begins 6 p.m. Friday

Posted on by Christine Doucette

The Financial Information System (FIS) will be unavailable from 6 p.m. Friday, March 12, through Sunday afternoon, March 14. This is a required upgrade to Oracle 19c and will prepare the system for a major upgrade that will occur later this fall.

FIS is the central accounting system utilized by KSU colleges, departments, and administrative units to process payment transactions, reporting, and manage grant post-awards.

March 16: Microsoft Lists training

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

Microsoft Lists iconMicrosoft Lists training is scheduled 2-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 16. The session will be presented in Microsoft Teams.

Registration is required. A confirmation message with a link to the session will be sent to you after you register. When you click to join the meeting, you will be taken to a page where you can choose to either join on the web or download the desktop app. If you already have the Teams app, the meeting will open there automatically.

Learn to stay on top of it all with Lists, the smart information tracking app in Microsoft 365. Lists help you track information and organize your work.

Objectives:

  • Navigate and understand core functionality of Microsoft Lists
  • Create, share, and track lists
  • Customize with custom views
  • Build lists from a template
  • Understand SharePoint Online and Teams integrations
  • Understand column types

If you have any questions, contact the IT Help Desk (helpdesk@k-state.edu).

March 15: Microsoft Teams L200 training

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

Teams logoMicrosoft Teams L200 training is scheduled 2-3:30 p.m. Monday, March 15. The session will be presented in Microsoft Teams.

Registration is required. A confirmation message with a link to the session will be sent to you after you register. When you click to join the meeting, you will be taken to a page where you can choose to either join on the web or download the desktop app. If you already have the Teams app, the meeting will open there automatically.

Microsoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365 that combines video meetings, persistent conversations, file storage, and applications together in one place. Teams allows people to communicate more effectively and work better together. 

Training objectives:

  • Revisit application navigation to fortify understanding and introduce advanced features.
  • Deep dive into integration with Microsoft 365 and third-party apps (e.g., Tabs, Apps, Bots).
  • In-depth look at SharePoint Online integration and document collaboration
  • Best practices for pre-meeting, meeting, and post-meeting.
  • Utilize best practices for increasing response rates and managing notifications.
  • Use Command/Search bar to navigate and find content more quickly.

If you have any questions, contact the IT Help Desk (helpdesk@ksu.edu).

HRIS, KSIS, and DARS maintenance scheduled for March 14

Posted on by Christine Doucette

HRIS, KSIS, and DARS will be unavailable from midnight – 4 a.m. March 14. Maintenance will be performed on the Oracle PeopleSoft systems. This maintenance will keep the system secure and up to date. Once applied, the systems will be brought back up for your use. Thank you for your patience as we work to maintain our IT systems.

IT Update: March 2021

Posted on by Division of Information

The Division of Information Technology staff are enjoying this gorgeous weather and making headway on networking and system projects.

Networking projects include:

  • Hale Library – network upgrades nearing completion
  • McCain Auditorium Expansion
  • Multicultural Center
  • Athletics – South Endzone expansion

Smaller Scale Infrastructure Projects

  • Various projects to upgrade building switches on the Polytechnic campus
  • ICE – clinical recording system
  • Vet Med Complex – multiple projects
  • Athletics – multiple projects

Listening sessions are underway for the Data Analytics Project to create an enterprise data store or data warehouse.

Continue reading “IT Update: March 2021” →

March 19: Intro to NVivo training

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

NVIVOAn “Intro to NVivo” training is scheduled from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, March 19, for all faculty, graduate students, and staff who may be using this qualitative (and mixed methods, multimethods) data analysis tool.  This session will occur on Zoom.

This presentation, which covers NVivo 12 Plus / NVivo (newest) basics, will address the following:

  • The basic parts of the NVivo 12 Plus interface
  • How to start and structure a research project (including a team project)
  • How to set up a project around a base language (Chinese/PRC, English/US, English/UK, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese/Brazil, and Spanish
  • How to ingest various multimedia file types (and curate heterogeneous and semi-structured digital data and digitized contents)
  • How to ingest some social media contents
  • How to begin manual and/or automated coding various media file types
  • How to run data queries in the tool and analyze resulting data visualizations (word clouds, word trees, matrices, geographical maps, bar charts, and others)
  • How to back up the .nvp / .nvpx project file

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March 9: Microsoft Power Automate training

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

Power Automate iconPower Automate training is scheduled from 2-3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 9. The session will be presented in Microsoft Teams. Registration is required. A confirmation message with a link to the session will be sent to you after you register.

When you click to join the meeting, you will be taken to a page where you can choose to either join on the web or download the desktop app. If you already have the Teams app, the meeting will open there automatically.

Attendees taking this course will learn the basic elements of Power Automate, including an overview of types of flows, how to create flows from templates or from scratch, and understand how these can be integrated with existing systems and applications like Microsoft Teams.

Objectives:

  • Become an expert on accessing and navigating Power Automate
  • Understand key components of a Flow
  • Maximize efficiency through pre-built Flow templates
  • Get familiar with Connectors, Data Source, and AI Builder
  • Learn how to create your first Flow
  • Understand how your Flows can be integrated with your existing systems and applications such as Microsoft Teams

If you have any questions about the training, contact the IT Help Desk (helpdesk@k-state.edu).

March 8: Microsoft Teams L100 training

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

Teams logoMicrosoft Teams is the hub for teamwork in Microsoft 365 that combines video meetings, persistent conversations, file storage, and applications together in one place. Teams allows people to communicate more effectively and work better together. 

Microsoft Teams L100 training is scheduled 2-3:30 p.m. Monday, March 8. The session will be presented in Microsoft Teams. Registration is required. A confirmation message with a link to the session will be sent to you after you register.

When you click to join the meeting, you will be taken to a page where you can choose to either join on the web or download the desktop app. If you already have the Teams app, the meeting will open there automatically.

Trainiing objectiives:

  • Learn how to create and participate in a Team, including how to navigate across requested modalities (e.g. desktop, mobile, tablet, etc.).
  • Understand how teams fits into collaboration and a productive workflow.
  • Learn how Teams integrates with Microsoft 365.
  • Work more efficiently with connected apps in Teams.
  • Get familiar with creating and participating in meetings.

If you have any questions about the training, contact the IT Help Desk (helpdesk@k-state.edu).

Pratt named to the HEUG Board of Directors

Posted on by Division of Information

Gary Pratt, Kansas State University’s Chief Information Officer (CIO), has been named to the HEUG (Higher Ed User Group) Board of Directors. HEUG is a global nonprofit organization whose mission is “to facilitate sharing ideas, information, and experience among its members.” Enterprise systems have been the focus of HEUG, a 20+-year-old organization with 32,000 members from 900 campuses and 37 countries.

HEUG hosts the Alliance Conference every year, which “is the premier place for higher education and public sector knowledge sharing, collaboration with peers, and finding the inspiration that comes from learning about creative solutions.”

According to Pratt, “The Higher Education User Group (HEUG) was formed around the need to improve and enhance the core PeopleSoft and Oracle applications, including K-State’s primary administrative systems (KSIS, HRIS, and FIS). Membership on the HEUG Board will allow K-State to help guide the evolution of these key systems into the future.”