Category: "IT Strategy"

With our transition to RapidIdentity, we have enabled Office 365 accounts for faculty and students, in addition to staff. This will allow faculty and students to take full advantage of our Office 365 licensing, including the Office 365 App Suite and services like OneDrive (file storage) and Microsoft Teams (collaboration and video conferencing).  Starting with […]

IAM, in this case, is an abbreviation for “Identity and Access Management”,  the processes around creating, maintaining and deleting accounts for people, as well as managing passwords and security questions. In 2019, TCCS, on behalf of the colleges, signed a contract for an IAM system that all of the Colleges will use.  Because HMC has […]

Just before the winter break, we made some staffing changes I wanted you to know about. Dr. Aashita Kesarwani, whom many of you know, received a promotion to Scientific Computing and Data Science Specialist.  Aashita has been knocking the ball out of the park in her position, offering workshops on machine learning that are in high […]

Dear all, See below for a message from the Workday Governance Committee Greetings TCC Community, The Workday Governance Group (WGC) would like to thank everyone who took time to take the Fall 2019 Workday Survey. We are focused on ensuring the improvement of the usability of the system, and your feedback through the survey is […]

In the past year, we have been redesigning the CIS computer upgrade program (CUP).  We started with a new program document, which Cabinet reviewed and approved in November 2018.  Then we started working on procedures and workflow, all with the aim of getting to a more streamlined program.  We are not there yet, but we […]

As part of our efforts to increase security for the College’s data (and yours!), we are planning to deploy a centralized firewall.   We will work with the TCCS Networking staff to achieve this.   The goal is to prevent unauthorized access to computers connected to our network.  At the moment, we have parts of a distributed […]

Each summer, the HMC cabinet members meet over two days to look back on progress towards goals in the past year and to share goals for the coming year. At CIS, in the month or so before those meetings, we work to develop a list of high level guiding goals for the year.  Once approved, […]

Sakai Fall 2019 Sakai course sites were created and have been populated with faculty and students. If you have not yet requested your ubercourses, this would be a good time to do so. If you’re having trouble finding and organizing your sites in the Home site, please read our Tips and Tricks for Organizing Your […]

The Academic and Research Computing Services (ARCS) team presented a poster titled, “Digital Humanities: Integrating Scalar into an Undergraduate American Studies Course” at the Educause ELI Conference on Feb. 21 in Anaheim, CA. The team investigated students’ experience using Scalar, an open-source scholarly publishing tool that can be used to create media-rich content, in LIT 179X Zora Neale Hurston: […]

This Fall the HMC Computing Committee has been meeting monthly to discuss CIS services and strategy. The Committee’s purpose is to represent the interests of faculty and students, advise college leadership about technology needs and policies, and advise the Chief Information Officer (CIO) on computer policies. The committee membership changes every year, with members appointed […]