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Email upgrade committee hosting calendar function demonstration

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

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.)

Email upgrade committee hosting calendar function demonstration

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

By Melissa Morris

The email upgrade committee will be hosting a demonstration of the calendar functions in Google Apps for Education and Microsoft 365 from 1:30-3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 12, in the Big 12 Room at the K-State Student Union.   Continue reading “Email upgrade committee hosting calendar function demonstration” →

Qualtrics webinars scheduled Friday, Nov. 16, and Monday, Nov. 19

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

K-State faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend a webinar on Qualtrics, a research software company providing an online data collection tool, used for surveys, forms, dissertations, assessments, reporting, etc. Sponsored by Information Technology Services, the same webinar will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 16, and again at 11 a.m. Monday, Nov. 19.  Both are in Hale 401.  Continue reading “Qualtrics webinars scheduled Friday, Nov. 16, and Monday, Nov. 19” →

What causes K-State email to be blocked by other email providers

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

by Information Technology Services

The IT Help Desk continues to receive numerous calls about email blocking that has disrupted our ability to communicate with those who receive their mail via a Microsoft email provider (Hotmail, MSN, Live365) and other email service-providers. This issue impacts everyone who’s trying to send email to one of these addresses, plus everyone who sends email to any K-State address that forwards to a Microsoft email provider — including addresses on K-State mailing lists. Hotmail is one of the top two places where K-Staters forward their mail.   Continue reading “What causes K-State email to be blocked by other email providers” →

“Microsoft Word tips, tools, and troubleshooting” sessions on Library Day Nov. 7

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

K-State faculty/staff and graduate students who want to learn more about Microsoft Word’s timesaving features — or who have Microsoft Word problems, questions, and puzzles — are encouraged to attend any of four “Microsoft Word tips, tools, and troubleshooting” sessions at 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, and 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 7, in Hale 401 during Library Day.  Continue reading ““Microsoft Word tips, tools, and troubleshooting” sessions on Library Day Nov. 7″ →

Web conferencing tools Vidyo and BlueJeans available for testing

Posted on by Luke Haselwood

Video Conferencing Services in iTAC has begun a pilot program for testing Vidyo and BlueJeans, which are both designed to make conferencing over the Web easy to use, secure, and reliable.

  1. The BlueJeans pilot will be available until mid-January 2013.
  2. The Vidyo pilot will be available until October 2013.

Both services will be free-of-charge to use during the pilot programs.

Continue reading “Web conferencing tools Vidyo and BlueJeans available for testing” →

Improved searching on university directory

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

By Division of Comm. and Mktg., Office of Mediated Education

Finding an email address, phone number or office location for K-Staters just got easier because of improvements to the people directory, the online searchable database of K-State faculty, staff and students. You can search the people directory by entering a person’s name or eID in the K-State search box, which is in the top right corner of all K-State webpages.

The improved people directory takes into account middle names, initials and hyphenated last names when searching for a person. Another significant improvement is searching for a person using a nickname. Continue reading “Improved searching on university directory” →

Roundup: Recent technology news in the Kansas State Collegian

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

A search for technology news in the Kansas State Collegian yielded these nine recent items on technology, online resources, and the uses of social media at K-State. Links are included below to the complete stories.

Email slowness and outage result of hardware failure

Posted on by Betsy Edwards

By Ken Stafford

K-State’s email service provider, Merit, experienced a hardware failure Thursday, Sept 27. While many of the mail stores are back up, they will continue through this morning to restore the remaining data.

Multiple disc drives failed in Merit’s storage area network environment that required restoring data onto new drives.  Continue reading “Email slowness and outage result of hardware failure” →

Automate your Android phone with Llama

Posted on by Nick Brown

Llama is an app for your Android device that allows you to control various settings based on a large number of predefined triggers. These triggers include things like location (based on cell towers), time of day, day of week, and whether there is an event on your calendar.  Continue reading “Automate your Android phone with Llama” →