Archive for the ‘Academic Technology’ Category
Product Review: Solid-State Drives
Hard disk drive technology has matured over the years, with drives spinning faster, achieving greater data transfer rates, improving at error checking, and attaining tremendous storage capacities. Those gains, however, have come at the cost of increasing disk fragility. Older SCSI and ATA drives could pretty much be counted on to safely store data for […]
Mailing List Service Migrates to Google Groups
On July 25, Information Technology (IT) completed the migration of our mailing list service to Google Groups. Google Groups is Google’s version of a mailing list service. Some of the advantages of Google Groups include a web interface for self-service group management, web-based archive mail review and support for email attachments up to 25 MB. […]
Solve the Email Quota Problem with Personal Folders in Microsoft Outlook
The need for centralized electronic data storage continues to increase at corporations and educational institutions nationwide. At the University of Mississippi, Information Technology (IT) provides 500 MB of storage space for each UM Mail (Exchange) account on our central Exchange server. Understandably for some employees, more email storage space is needed. One solution is to […]
Blackboard Becomes More Mobile with Recent Upgrades
If you haven’t noticed by now, the Blackboard Learning Management System recently received several product enhancements with the release of a new version of Blackboard Mobile Learn and a system upgrade to version 9.1 SP7. Blackboard Mobile Learn gives students and instructors access to their course content on a variety of mobile devices, including the […]
Quick Sign-in for UM Wireless on iPad and iPhone
If you’re like me, you probably have two, if not three, devices you regularly use on the UM Wireless network. You may have also noticed that your iPad or iPhone running iOS 5 refuses to remember your WebID when connecting. Although you can register gaming devices for password-less authentication, this isn’t an ideal solution for devices […]
Higher Education Meets eBay: An Online Marketplace for Course Notes
Instructors and students have been sharing course materials online for over fifteen years. In the early years of the Internet and web browsers, instructors posted course materials on a personal web page or a file transfer (ftp) site. In recent years, web-based learning management systems have replaced these personal course web pages. Products such as […]
Find Your Phone!
Have you ever misplaced or lost your phone? Maybe it was stolen? Was your device returned to you? In the wake of recent iPhone thefts, Apple’s free iCloud service, paired with their free Find My iPhone app, offers some peace of mind. The iCloud service and the Find My iPhone app work together to provide […]
IT Welcomes Jimmy Ball, Deputy CIO for Academic Technology!
The Office of Information Technology (IT) is pleased to announce that Jimmy Ball has been named as Deputy CIO for Academic Technology. Ball will be responsible for providing leadership for the design, development, and implementation of academic technology services offered centrally through IT and the Division of Outreach and Continuing Education (Outreach). Tim Angle, […]