Information Technology Services

From within Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, you can now join a Google Meet call right in the same window. Students working on a group project, faculty discussing an assignment with students, or colleagues collaborating for work now have more convenient ways to work together.

Just click on the Google Meet icon next to the Share button to see your upcoming scheduled meetings, start a new meeting, or add a meeting code for an existing meeting. The meeting will open in a sidebar in the document you’re working on.

If you create a new meeting, Google Meet will provide you with a link you can share with others to join you.

The first time you use this feature in your browser, you will need to give permission for Google Docs to use your microphone and camera.

You may also see a popup alerting you that you’re not presenting the document and giving you a link to share the document in the Meet.

You will also have the option to shrink the Meet panel using the Picture-in-picture feature, or to pop the Meet panel out to a separate tab in your browser.

With changes to personnel and office locations, sometimes uncertainty arises about how to handle phone setups.

Employees who move from one location on campus to another, and who will be keeping the same extension, can simply take their existing phone with them to their new location. When it’s plugged in, the extension stays the same even though it’s now in a different building. LITS does ask to be notified when a phone moves to a different building, so we can update records for emergency calls to be routed correctly.

If for some reason their extension needs to change, or if a new employee is coming into an office that already has a phone, please notify LITS so we can update the phone setup to reflect the new extension and caller ID.

In the event of such changes, we just ask you to open a Web Help Desk ticket with the Request Type “Phone”, and an LITS technician will follow up with you.

Finally, in the event that there is a phone that will no longer be used, please let LITS know.

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As you probably know, your Allegheny account password expires once a year. Before it expires, you can always reset your password on the Password Change page.

But even if your password has already expired, you may be able to reset it yourself, as long as you’ve set up an alternate email or phone number in Self Service ahead of time. While this is not required, it can make account recovery easier.

And as always, if you need assistance, the InfoDesk is available to help you. Just stop by the InfoDesk in Pelletier, or contact us at infodesk@allegheny.edu or by phone at extension 3768 (814-332-3768 from off campus).

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With graduation fast approaching, LITS would like to remind graduating seniors: you can hold on to some of the content you’ve created in their time here at Allegheny. Since your Allegheny account is not permanent, LITS recommends that you take steps to preserve your content. We’ve created a step-by-step guide on how to migrate your content to a personal Gmail account. You can choose to migrate information from various Google services, such as Google Docs, email messages, and Google Calendar. It’s best to begin the process early, so that you have time to ensure you have what you need.

And if you haven’t already done so, don’t forget to submit your Senior Project to Allegheny’s online Senior Project archive!

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