As a result of the university’s decision to move to online teaching for the rest of the Spring semester, Information Technology is taking steps to provide faculty with many resources to transition their classes online. Working in collaboration with Online and Strategic Learning, Laura Petty and her team in UTS have set up a Keep […]
With the recent university announcements regarding the coronavirus and changes to classes and events, Ball State Information Representatives and the Technology HelpDesk are receiving a high number of calls concerning the situation. Fawn Gary, Associate Vice President for Information Technology and the division’s representative on the university Crisis Management Team, provided the following direction. “The […]
The Innovate WithIN High School Pitch Competition came to a close last Friday after two weeks traveling the state of Indiana. The Digital Corps students and staff provided key creative and technical support to Governor Holcomb’s initiative to spur economic development among Indiana’s young entrepreneurs. Thousands of dollars in prize packages were awarded over the […]
Over the last weekend in February 2020, a dedicated group of Information Technology team members from multiple departments, working with many other areas across campus, completed a major project: the upgrade our campus-wide Oracle database environment. As you may know, Oracle is the back-end database that powers our entire ERP and many other campus systems. […]
On February 26th, 2020, Ball State students in the College of Communication, Information and Media, in collaboration with Information Technology employees, produced and hosted the very first recording of the President Mearns public affairs program titled, Cardinal Compass: Campus and Community Conversations. The show is produced by these students as part an interdisciplinary course offered by […]
Unified Technology Support (UTS) has collaborated with Dell Computer to provide new wireless presentation capabilities for Windows and Mac laptop computers in the Tech Center Conference Room (BL101A). In addition to the existing wired connections (HDMI and VGA) and Apple TV, this new system uses a small form-factor Dell computer and the Intel Unite presentation […]
As renovation planning begins for the Cooper Science Building, representatives from Information Technology have been involved with several technology discussions as part of the process. UTS’s Laura Petty and Gary Moore recently held discussions with the Facilities Department about the computer and technology needs for 13 general-purpose classrooms and as many laboratory classrooms, which will […]
The Office of Information Security has been steadily adding students to two-factor authentication for their Ball State accounts and is on track to complete student enrollment during this semester. Several student groups, including the College of Health and CCIM, were enrolled last year and the first two general groups of remaining students were successfully enrolled […]
With the addition of the 5Ghz “bsuconnect” wireless network last year, Unified Communications is now in the process of retiring the “bsusecure” wireless network. We plan to retire “bsusecure” fully at the end of Spring Semester, 2020. A large majority of wireless devices on campus— including computers, tablets, and phones—will be able to use the […]
In 2019, the Technology HelpDesk introduced a feature to allow end users to start an online chat with Ball State Information, in addition to the existing available chat with the Technology HelpDesk. Information Technology is now working with Marketing & Communications to add this feature to the main Ball State website, bsu.edu. This will make […]
