How To Set Up Cell Phones For Sending and Receiving NCC Email

There are a variety of cell phone companies and even more types and models of cell phones.  Each model, type of cell phone and each company has their own unique requirements for what  technology they will support  making it impossible for ITS to support all of them. 
 

Drupal, ITS Website, Moodle, Windows7, Help and Outages

Drupal
Drupal is open-source software that publishes, manages, and organizes a wide variety of content on a website. Drupal is used by the US government, the Whitehouse, MTV and thousands of other organizations to manage their websites.  The College is currently using Ingeniux to manage our website.  After careful study and endorsement by the College Web Advisory Group we are in the process of joining the elite organizations mentioned above as we start migrating our websites to Drupal.
 

Blackboard vs Moodle: A Choice that Depends on You

Blackboard vs Moodle:
A Choice that Depends on You

Effective and efficient learning management systems support teaching and learning activities that contribute to student success.  They have now become an essential set of tools toward accomplishing NCC's strategic directions.

Change Password Notification

Change Password Notification


A password is a secret word or string of characters that is used for authentication, to prove identity or gain access to a resource.  They have existed since BC or way, way Before Computers. (Techies put everything in relationship to computer technology.)  They were used in early 100 BC by the Roman military.  It was not until 1961 that passwords were used with computers.  So in 2010 when you are asked to change your password, you are helping keep up a long tradition and also helping prevent identity theft.

Windows 7 and Office 2010

Windows 7 and Office 2010


Microsoft has released Windows 7, their current operating system for computers.  This operating system is 64 bit.  The College is currently on Windows XP, a 32 bit operating system.  Current technology, hardware and software, takes advantage of the 64 bit operating system; we cannot with XP. Further, when we migrate to Office 2010 next summer, it will not run on Windows XP.

Advisee Email Coming and Class Roster Email Available

Advisee Email Coming

Coming soon will be the ability to email all of your advisees using Merlin.  You will be able to email all your advisees or only selected advisees.  ITS is in the process of testing this and also improvements to Advisor Registration Approval and Student Registration Date and Time.

Class Roster Email Available Now

Facebook Privacy

Facebook Privacy

PC Magazine has an article on how to protect your privacy on Facebook.  Since many faculty and staff use Facebook, I thought that you might want to look at the 8 ways to keep your private information from being spread all over the Internet.

See PC Magazine article for more information

Datatel and Merlin Status

The Datatel staff have been working long days since Thursday to convert Benefactor to Colleague.  There were 19 preprocessing steps before the conversion could begin. The conversion involved migrating over 1,420,000 records.  Each of the 47 processes in converting had to be run three times.