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Win-Win! Google Apps @ NC State – Collaborate, Communicate, Educate

Students want access to the latest interactive software applications and ample storage for files. North Carolina State University - and the state of North Carolina - need to save money. How likely is it that both sides of this apparent dilemma can "win"? In the case of NC State's new partnership with Google Inc. to host student e-mail services, the answer is "very likely."

NC State announced today that it will deploy Google Apps Education Edition™ as its official university e-mail service for students. In addition to e-mail, students will receive access to the suite of popular Google Apps collaboration tools, all from their @ncsu.edu address. Google offers the Google Apps Education Edition™ as a free service to educational institutions.

"Outsourcing e-mail is a growing trend in higher education because it enables universities to improve technology services for students while reducing costs,” stated Dr. Marc Hoit, NC State’s vice chancellor for information technology, in the memo announcing the successful negotiation of the contract with Google. Read OIT News Release!

Gertrude Cox Award Ceremony is Feb. 22

Celebrate the IT innovation of NC State faculty and staff at the Ninth Annual Gertrude Cox Award Ceremony! The ceremony will be held from 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 22 in the Walnut Room of the Talley Student Center.

The award recognizes "the creative pedagogy of NC State's faculty and technical staff and their work in integrating new technologies into effective teaching strategies." The award is sponsored by the Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable; Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA); and the Office of Faculty Development. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, visit the Gertrude Cox Award Web site.

OIT Lunch & Learn: "How to use Business Objects to Run Remedy Reports" on Feb. 9 (For OIT Staff Only)

OIT's Brown Bag Lunch and Learn series presents "How to use Business Objects to Run Remedy Reports" from 12:15 p.m. to 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 9, in 216 Scott Hall.

Bala Arunagirinathan of OIT Technology Support Services will talk about how to access the Business Objects portal to run Remedy metrics reports for specific workgroups. These reports include: comparisons between multiple workgroups, single workgroup generation, and flat file generation. Various metrics include: call distributions by month, by staff member by resolution time, by priority and by product type. You will also learn how to automate, export and drill down into the reports for your specific workgroups.

This Lunch and Learn is for OIT staff only. To register, visit Classmate.

Register for OIT Workshops!

The spring schedule for the OIT Workshops program is now available via Classmate, OIT’s registration site. Users may view and register for a variety of free, technology-related workshops.

Workshops will be held in the newly renovated Avent Ferry Technology Center at 2114 Avent Ferry Rd. If you would like to be notified when training schedules are open for registration, please join the OIT Workshops E-mail List.

SAR training scheduled for Feb. 9

Security Access Request (SAR) training for campus requestors and approvers of access to secured university data will be held from 9:30 a.m. to noon on Tuesday, Feb. 9 in the ITTC Lab 2 of D.H. Hill Library.

Please visit Classmate to view available classes and to sign up for training