PGP Desktop 10.2 has been released by Symantec. The Office of the Chief Information Officer will enable PGP software update alerts on December 4. Notifications will be sent to each computer that has PGP Desktop installed alerting customers that an update is available.
Affected Systems
The free OSU Mobile smartphone app is now available on Android. Students helped create the app, which includes free ringtones, updated campus maps, news, and more. Download the app for Android and iPhone.
More than 70,000 Ohio State faculty, students and staff have visited my.osu.edu to initiate their first password change, transitioning them to the new Identity and Access Management (IdM) System and contributing to the university’s efforts to consolidate disparate account management processes. The IdM Program’s foundation provides important security and identity management functions across the university in addition to password changing.
Creating Individual Accounts
Departmental Impact Grants from the OCIO's Learning Technology area are making a difference in the recipients' classroom experiences. By capturing and providing lectures electronically, polling students, and incorporating interactive elements to her math course, Elizabeth Miller and the Math project committee improved student test scores, retention, and overall opinion of the Math department
The University E-mail Service that uses Microsoft Exchange and Outlook is considered a major success by faculty and staff. The Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) has received praise from a number of customers who have recently migrated. “Ohio State’s e-mail upgrade is just tremendous. After just two days of utilizing the new system, it has increased my productivity – both inside and outside the office – exponentially," said Barbara Kaelber, administrative associate for the Office of the Dean and Director, The Ohio State University at Marion.
David A. Kieffer, who served as interim director of Enterprise Applications and director of Applications Strategy & Architect, was named senior director for Enterprise Application for the Office of the Chief Information Officer. Kieffer’s new role is effective immediately, and he succeeds Andy Jackson, who resigned in July for a commercial enterprise position.
Summary of Consumer Information on Copyrighted Materials
The Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 requires the university to annually notify students about consumer information on the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted materials through illegal downloading or peer-to-peer distribution of intellectual property. This information can also be beneficial to faculty and staff.
Summary of Civil and Criminal Penalties for Violation of Federal Copyright Laws
Download and print your own 2012 Ohio State holiday calendar from the Office of the Chief Information Officer. The calendar, available at it.osu.edu/12calendar.pdf, highlights commencements, quarter start dates, and the university holidays.
Join Microsoft on October 21 for a demonstration of how familiar tools such as Office 2010, Windows 7, Windows Live, Microsoft Research, and Office Labs can make information more useable, flexible, available and valuable. Learn how to use these tools in the classroom and in social networks to encourage collaboration among students and faculty to publish, share, and coauthor.
Come join the Digital Storytelling Program for a showcase of recently created stories on a wide variety of topics. Faculty and staff from across Ohio State will present the works they created during intensive immersion workshops in storytelling and production techniques. Several of the stories will highlight the immigration memories of Ohio State faculty, and one will highlight the experiences of an undocumented immigrant artist who participated in Professor Peter Shane’s "Information Stories" workshop.
