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Month: November 2021

Dec. 10: Intro to Adobe InDesign

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

Adobe InDesign is the premiere layout tool for various electronic and print publications, designs, artifacts, interactive PDFs, forms, and other contents. This session introduces how to get started with InDesign (part of the Adobe Creative Cloud) by setting up workspace, beginning a publication, placing text and imagery, and exporting a file in the proper format.

InDesign also has a cloud-based aspect for publishing to the Web (and file-sharing for feedback).

This session, “Intro to Adobe InDesign,” is scheduled from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 10 (Friday) on Zoom at this link.  (The link will not be live until the event.)

A Grid View of Adobe InDesign 2020 GUI

 

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Office 365 training opportunities for December

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

Micros 365 iconsAs part of K-State’s Office 365 subscription, the Microsoft Store provides free training on Office 365 applications. We have scheduled the following sessions with them for December:

​See the session descriptions below.

All of the above sessions will be from 2-3:30 p.m. The sessions will be held in Microsoft Teams. 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.

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Dec. 3: Advanced NVivo

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

NVIVO

“Advanced NVivo” is a follow-up presentation from the “Introduction to NVivo” offered earlier this term. This training will be held 1:30-3:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 3, online via Zoom.

This presentation will address the following:

  • Any extant questions from the basic introduction of NVivo 12 Plus / NVivo
  • How to set up qualitative data to be explored and queried
  • How to use the software on interview, survey, focus group, and similar data
  • How to query the collected data in an NVivo project (word frequency counts, text searches, matrix coding queries, matrix queries, proximity text searches, and other forms of text parsing)
  • How to create data visualizations (word trees, word clouds, dendrograms, ring lattice graphs, sociograms, and others) (for analysis and presentations)
  • How to conduct four types of auto-coding (by extracted themes and subthemes, by sentiment analysis, by structured data, and by supervised machine learning based on existing human coding)
  • How to set up a qualitative cross-tabulation analysis
  • How to output a basic report (including a custom codebook)

The presenter will be using the Windows version of the software.

Caveat

K-State does not have a site license for NVivo. Student licenses are available by subscription for NVivo Windows or the Mac (which has fewer capabilities/features).  The subscriptions are for 12 month periods and available for about $99 or so a year.

QSR International trainings

QSR International offers video tutorials and both free and for-pay events.

An additional reference

Those who have already started using NVivo may want to refer to “Using NVivo: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Primer,” which is an e-book built on the Scalar platform that highlights various features of the tool.

Questions

Registration is not required.  However, K-Staters who want a formal record of their attendance may register via HRIS…or sign up in-person at the online event (and they’ll be credited shortly after the event).

If there are questions, please email shalin@k-state.edu or call 785-532-5262. Thank you for your interest.  All are welcome.

Nov. 29: Getting Started w/ ETDR Templates

Posted on by Shalin Hai-Jew

Are you a master’s or doctoral student? If so, it is likely that you will be conducting research as part of your studies. At some point, you may be writing a thesis, report, or dissertation to record your work to share with the profession and the world. K-State has made available templates (in Microsoft Word and LaTeX) for students to use, in order to ensure that they include all required information in the proper formatting.

“Getting Started with ETDR Templates” is an online training on Zoom from 1 – 2:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 29.    

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Gary Pratt selected as Executive Committee of APLU’s Commission on Information, Measurement, and Analysis

Posted on by Christine Doucette

Gary Pratt, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer for K-State, has been selected to serve on the Executive Committee of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) Commission on Information, Measurement, & Analysis (CIMA). Pratt will serve on the committee for three years.

The executive committee is responsible for positioning the commission as a vehicle to share, discuss, and disseminate innovative ways to combine and leverage data across campus to advance student and institutional success.

“K-State’s presence at the national level will help keep us in the forefront of the conversations in many areas related to data management, governance, analytics, and associated practices,” commented Pratt. Continue reading “Gary Pratt selected as Executive Committee of APLU’s Commission on Information, Measurement, and Analysis” →

Cybersecurity Awareness: Phishing simulations to begin

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

Phishing is one of the most common forms of cyberattacks that we encounter. K-State handles compromised accounts on a daily basis. Universities are often targeted because of the vast amounts of data criminals could get access to. Building a strong cybersecurity culture is one of the best defenses we have.

Cybersecurity Awareness: Phishing Simulations

As the next step in our required cybersecurity awareness training, we will perform phishing simulations and track performance. Again, it’s not our intention to shame anyone, but instead to use this data to ensure we’re targeting the correct user populations that may need additional training. We will be using the Attack Simulator that is available to us through our Microsoft 365 licensing. Continue reading “Cybersecurity Awareness: Phishing simulations to begin” →

Reminder: Cybersecurity Awareness Training needs to be completed by Dec. 31 

Posted on by Cathy Rodriguez

The 2021 Cybersecurity Awareness training must be completed by Dec. 31 to comply with State Policy 7230 – Information Technology Enterprise Security Policy, section 8.0 Awareness and Training Standard.

The President’s Cabinet has authorized the suspension of eID’s that fail to meet the required training after the due date. If your eID is suspended, you will lose access to all University systems until training is completed.

Dec. 31 DeadlineOn Nov. 16, a reminder was sent to all K-State employees (faculty, staff, and students) (who haven’t completed the training. Currently, 3,250 employees out of 11,343 have completed the training. Continue reading “Reminder: Cybersecurity Awareness Training needs to be completed by Dec. 31 “ →

K-State shred day Nov. 19: What to shred?

Posted on by Christine Doucette

Shred Day is scheduled 8:30–11 a.m. Friday, November 19, to properly dispose of university paper records on the Manhattan campus. Please review the university retention schedule to ensure accuracy in sending records for destruction. Further policy information governing records management includes the university’s records retention policy, PPM Chapter 3090.

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Phishing Scam Alert: Apply now for emergency relief funds scam

Posted on by Christine Doucette

Phishing ScamsA new phishing scam is currently targeting colleges and universities. The scam email notifies students, faculty, and staff that federal government funds are available and asks the recipient to apply for the grant money and provide their personal data. Do not click the link; this is a scam.

Some hints that the email is a scam include:

  • Misspellings
  • Typos
  • Poor grammar
  • Fake web address

When in doubt, forward the email to abuse@ksu.edu and then delete the email. Continue reading “Phishing Scam Alert: Apply now for emergency relief funds scam” →

Technically Speaking: Highlights of current and future IT projects

Posted on by Christine Doucette

Technically Speaking is a new video series from the Division of Information Technology. The video series will update the K-State Community on new tools, projects, and services available through IT.

In the first episode, Gary Pratt, Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer, discusses the current and future IT projects at K-State. The projects covered in the video include Network Infrastructure Refresh, New Data Warehouse and Data Lake, On-Prem Data Center, and TeamDynamix.

Technically Speaking: Highlights of Current and Future IT Projects is now available for viewing.