Many departments on campus use YouTube to host their video content. Here’s a quick tutorial about how to upload a video to YouTube:
LITS Public Services has also prepared a print version of the tutorial.
October 12th 2021
Many departments on campus use YouTube to host their video content. Here’s a quick tutorial about how to upload a video to YouTube:
LITS Public Services has also prepared a print version of the tutorial.
October 5th 2021
We’ve talked before about using labels in Google Keep. Google Contacts is another service where labels can help you keep things organized.
September 30th 2021
On the afternoon of September 30, Canvas users reported an issue accessing Google documents from within Canvas.
As of 2:08 p.m., Canvas support announced that a fix had been implemented and the issue was resolved.
Many thanks to those across campus who alerted LITS to the issue.
If you are still encountering issues with Google documents within Canvas, we encourage you to reach out to Canvas Support using the Report a Problem link from the Help menu within Canvas.
September 28th 2021
You may already be familiar with using comments in Google Docs and Google Sheets. Did you know you can use similar features to comment on Microsoft Word files, Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and PDFs that you’ve uploaded to Google Drive?
Comments can be a great way to collaborate–letting your team know your thoughts and asking questions about a document that all of you have access to.
To comment on a PDF file, double-click on the file in your Google Drive.
In the upper right corner, click on the “Add a comment” button:
You can then select a portion of the PDF to comment on, type your comment, and use the Comment button to save it:
To be able to add comments, you must either be the owner of the file, or have editing or commenting privileges on the file.
You can also comment on images and video files!
Learn more about file storage and collaboration in Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets.
September 21st 2021
By default, snoozed notifications will reappear one minute before the scheduled meeting; you can change this timing in your Calendar settings. You can also “re-snooze” a notification for an additional five minutes as many times you’d like, until the meeting ends.
September 14th 2021
The Meeting safety icon appears at the bottom of the new co-host’s screen.
Flipped Classroom offers a quick video tutorial:
September 10th 2021
On the morning of Friday, September 10, LITS received numerous reports of certain student accounts being disabled. Printing, WiFi, email, Google Workspace, Canvas, Self Service, and other Allegheny College services were affected by this outage.
We believe that the issue has been resolved. If any students are still receiving this error message, please alert the InfoDesk at 814-332-3768, or stop by the InfoDesk so we can help troubleshoot.
September 7th 2021
Google has changed the default editing mode for Microsoft Office files in Google Drive on the web. Now, when you double-click on an Office file, it will open directly in Office editing mode.
Office Editing Mode in Google Docs and Sheets offers improved compatibility with Microsoft Office for layout, formulas, formatting, and other features. This makes it even easier to work with files created in Microsoft Word, Excel, or PowerPoint. It works both on files you upload and on files shared with you.
Note that password-protected Office files will not open directly in Office editing mode. These files will continue to open in Preview mode.
Learn more about using Google Drive at the Google Drive Help Center.
August 31st 2021
Today’s tips are courtesy of Public Services Technician Sue Gum:
Find out if your passwords have been stolen
Mozilla’s Firefox Monitor and Google’s Password Checkup can show you which of your email addresses and passwords have been compromised in a data breach so you can take action.
Have I Been Pwned can also show you if your emails and passwords have been exposed. If you do discover you’ve been hacked, see our guide for how to protect yourself.
If thieves do steal your password, you can still keep them from gaining access to your account with two-factor authentication (also called two-step verification or 2FA), a security safeguard that requires you enter a second piece of information that only you have (usually a one-time code) before the app or service logs you in.
While it’s common and convenient to receive these codes in a text message to your mobile phone or in a call to your landline phone, it’s simple enough for a hacker to steal your phone number through SIM swap fraud and then intercept your verification code.
A much safer way to receive verification codes is for you to generate and fetch them yourself using an authentication app like Google Authenticator or Microsoft Authenticator. And once you’re set up, you can choose to register your device or browser so you don’t need to keep verifying it each time you sign in.
This is the multiple word phrase method with a twist — choose bizarre and uncommon words. Use proper nouns, the names of local businesses, historical figures, any words you know in another language, etc. A hacker might guess Weldons, but he or she would find it ridiculously challenging to try to guess a good password example like this: WeldonsLincolnSi
To crank it up another notch in complexity, you can add random characters in the middle of your words or between the words. Just avoid underscores between words.
This method is also described as the “Bruce Schneier Method.” The idea is to think of a random sentence and transform it into a password using a rule. For example using the sentence Roff School Tavern has the best pizza I can take the first 2 letters in every word and it would give me: rosctahatebepi but then I can take it a step further and capitalize some of the letters like RoScTahathbepi and it makes it even more secure.
To anyone else, it’s gobbledygook, but to you it makes perfect sense. Make sure the sentence you choose is as personal and unguessable as possible.
These can be used to reset your password from https://accounts.allegheny.edu/
August 24th 2021