October 4th 2018
As part of ongoing network improvements, LITS plans to test a failover to our backup internet connection at 6pm Monday October 8th. We do not anticipate an outage as a result of this test, but if one does occur, it will result in a complete loss of internet access campuswide, possibly intermittently or repeatedly until 7pm.
Once the test is complete, we will restore to our previous configuration.
September 17th 2018
What’s your contingency plan when you can’t make it to class? What will your students do while your mid-semester conference whisks you away? Or when the campus flu strikes you down? Having a pre-planned answer to the “what if” can see you through disasters or blips in your day.
Bring your Plan B ideas and share them in a discussion led by Catharina Coenen, Professor of Biology and Director of Faculty Development.
When: Friday, September 21
Lunch will be served beginning at noon, and the discussion will begin at 12:20
Where: Pelletier Collaboratory
Please register here.
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.