iTAC’s April IT training calendar is now online. All classes are free for K-State faculty, staff, and graduate students, but require pre-registration. Details are on the specific registration pages. Courses include:
Registration is now open for the April 9 IT security training event sponsored by SIRT. There is no cost to attend but registration is required so visit the online registration site now to reserve your spot and identify the sessions you will attend. All sessions will take place 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 9, in the K-State Student Union and are open to any K-State faculty, staff, or students, as well as IT professionals from other Regents’ institutions.
As in the past, you will have a choice of less-technical and more-technical topics during the two breakout sessions. Topics include: Continue reading “Registration open for April 9 IT security training event”
Computing and Telecommunications Services is sponsoring a complimentary MATLAB seminar 8:45 a.m.-noon Friday, March 27, in the Hemisphere Room of Hale Library. Jiro Doke, senior application engineer for The MathWorks, will be the presenter. This event is suitable for both new and existing users. All interested faculty, researchers, staff, and students are welcome.
Preregistration is suggested at www.mathworks.com/company/events/seminars/seminar33441.html for the two mini-sessions that will be held.
Mark your calendars for 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, April 9, so you can attend SIRT‘s annual IT security training event in the K-State Student Union. This annual event is free and open to any K-State faculty, staff, or student.
Like past events, this year’s training will include two general sessions covering topics relevant to everyone, plus two sets of breakout sessions with more technical and less technical options during each. Topics include:
Larry Kettlewell, the Chief IT Security Officer for the State of Kansas, will give a keynote address.
Watch InfoTech Tuesday for more details and registration information.
In 2008, Governor Sebelius signed House Bill 2916 into law which initiated a new State of Kansas compensation system. Perhaps the most important aspect of the new compensation system is the new Performance Management Process, which will be implemented in 2009. The new pay plans will be linked to work performance beginning June 2010 (FY 2011).
With the new Performance Management Process, a new form has been developed; mid-year discussions and annual evaluations are conducted on a set range of dates. For most employees, the first mid-year discussions will occur between April 1 and June 30, and annual evaluations will be due between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 every year.
Continue reading “New performance-management process for classified employees”
Have you ever had a bunch of RSS feeds that were very similar and that you wished were just one aggregate feed? For instance, many sites publish a number of feeds for different parts of their content, and it would often be more useful to have all that content in one feed so you don’t have to check multiple sources for the content.
Or, have you ever had a bunch of feeds that share a certain topic and that you’d rather be in one feed rather than separated?
Yahoo Pipes offers a simple way to aggregate feeds. Yahoo Pipes is a service that has a wide range of applications and can be used for some fairly complex tasks. For this example, we will use it to easily perform three tasks:
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Information Technology Services has recently purchased Microsoft Office online training for Office 2003 and 2007 (PCs) and 2004 for Macs. The training includes self-paced courses as well as online technical references on a wide variety of topics. We are first offering access to the training to K-State faculty and staff on a first-come, first-served basis. The tutorials are free but registration is required for access.
Note: There are a limited number of licenses. Account activity will be monitored, and accounts that are not being used will be reassigned, so only request access if you intend to use the training.
iTAC’s February IT training calendar is now online. All classes are free for K-State faculty, staff, and graduate students, but require pre-registration. Details are on the specific registration pages. Courses include:
The iSIS training calendar has been updated in iSIS Help and in HRIS through February. All sessions are held in Fairchild 9 unless otherwise specified. If you need a training session that is not listed, please contact the Student System Training Coordinator to request a new session.
You can keep track of multiple pages more easily by incorporating them into your iSIS Favorites. To do so, navigate within iSIS to the desired page and then in the upper right corner, click the Add to Favorites link. Enter a Description and then click OK. The page can now be found in the left hand navigation pagelet, under My Favorites.
NOTE: It is usually simpler to use the default iSIS name for the page being saved, though you can name it something else short and descriptive.
