July 30th 2018
Sakai will be unavailable on Thursday, August 2nd, from 6:00 am until 12:30 pm due to a scheduled update. The new version will have improved usability, a better mobile experience, and other enhancements. More information will be coming soon.
June 15th 2018
The link for Allegheny Full Text on the PubMed page will be removed. This link no longer provides access to the full text article or a direct link to Interlibrary Loan. Other vendor links for full text articles are still being provided. To find out if full text is available, copy and paste the article title into AggreGator. If the full text is available, the link will be provided. If the the article is “Online Citation”, the direct link to Interlibrary Loan will be provided.
June 8th 2018
Starting on June 14th, 2018, you may notice that when you sign in to your G Suite account, the screen looks slightly different. Some of the changes will include tweaks to the Google logo, an outline around the text field, and center alignment of all items on the screen. See below for before and after images.
June 5th 2018
Fun Friday 6/8 will be cancelled due to staff unavailability for a Friday afternoon retreat. Murray 117 will be available again on 6/15 for collaboration, brainstorming, and problem solving. Fun Friday is available to all who can make it every Friday at 3pm, with the understanding that if there is a large group, we can not assure you of dedicated work time with a member of ITS.
May 31st 2018
We have identified a potential issue with Informer that may cause service disruption. We are currently working to resolve this issue.
April 17th 2018
Students writing COMPs this semester must submit a licensing form to the Digital Initiatives Librarian and also upload the finished project to DSpace. Instructions for submitting the project can be found here
April 4th 2018
ITS continues to investigate WiFi connectivity issues related to recent updates for Apple devices. We have identified a fix, but implementing it will require some significant changes. Once we implement the fix, existing connections to AC-Wireless from Apple devices will be lost and users will be required to install a new configuration profile to reestablish their connection.
Stay tuned, more details on the timeline of this change will be available via MyAllegheny news posts.
April 2nd 2018
The updates released late last week for iOS and Mac OS X have caused devices to cease functioning on our network (AC-Wireless). We are currently troubleshooting the problem and will provide additional updates here.
We ask that users refrain from installing these updates until we can resolve the issue.
March 13th 2018
A small subset of our Windows users have experienced intermittent lockups and reboots over the last 24 hours. These symptoms are a result of unplanned maintenance on 3/12.
At this point the issue has been resolved, so please contact the InfoDesk if you continue to experience these symptoms.
February 26th 2018
With the maturity of the Google Forms platform to develop and design web forms, we are retiring Wufoo as an active tool for general campus use by May 1, 2018.
Forms that are embedded within critical website or marketing, as well as forms used for payment processing will continue to exist in Wufoo. In addition, Wufoo forms centrally managed by College Relations or ITS may continue to exist where it makes the most sense to continue existing practice.
Google’s form tool improves on Wufoo with the following features:
– Easier to share and securely manage results directly in a live spreadsheet.
– Better mobile user experience
– More robust file storage for collecting attached files
– Unlimited notifications for new entries
– Simpler transition of form ownership to others on campus
Most users have already been contacted and have either migrated already or are working with ITS to complete their migration. For forms that continue to exist on Wufoo, LITS recommends against long term storage of data and file uploads on the Wufoo site. If you are not already working with LITS to transition your forms or have other questions, please submit a support ticket with details at webhelp.allegheny.edu.