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Betsy Edwards
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and deadlines
May 26, 2004 (Wed)
Registration deadline for CHECK conference.
See the CHECK website.
June 3-4, 2004 (Thu-Fri)
CHECK conference.
Open to all constituents of higher education and technology in Kansas.
KU campus, Lawrence.
See the CHECK website.
July 1, 2004 (Thu)
Outdated e-mail addresses to be deleted.
Faculty who want to keep old addresses referenced in professional journals should contact
aliashelp@ksu.edu.
See the May 11 article.
July 1, 2004 (Thu)
Deadline for phasing non-administrative uses off the K-State IBM platform.
See the Sept. 30 article.
Aug. 18, 2004 (Wed)
Fall 2004 classes begin.
See the August academic calendar.
Post a policy:
One way to keep policies, instructions, examples, or
similar details from getting buried in a Message Board thread is to tack
them to the top.
When creating a new thread, and before you post it, select the button
"Keep this thread at the top..."
at the bottom Post New Message window. If you
have more than one tacked thread, you'll need to select the position
using the left pull-down menu.
To tack an already-posted message at the top, open it within the
thread and select the Edit button on the right-hand side.
Then follow the same steps as for a new message.
E-mail a suggestion or help areas for the K-State Online tip to
help@online.ksu.edu.
Questions? Contact the K-State Online Help Desk, 532-0198.
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Low-cost Microsoft software popular with students
Since the inception of the Microsoft Student Select program in June 2003,
the K-State Student Union Computer Store has sold 1,009 selected software
products to students at a substantial discount from retail prices.
| Student Select software |
Number sold |
| Windows XP Pro upgrade | 218 |
| Office XP Standard | 49 |
| Office XP Pro | 417 |
| Office 2003 Pro | 207 |
| Office X for Mac | 118 |
| Total | 1,009 |
All the products being sold under Student Select are priced at $69.90 each, plus tax.
This K-State-Microsoft agreement allows students to purchase popular Microsoft products, but
is not available to faculty or staff.
Some initial advertising was done at the beginning of last fall, but these sales are
mostly due to word-of-mouth.
This program is also available to students on the K-State-Salina campus. For more information, contact
Chris Loehr, clscott@ksu.edu, 532-7319.
—C. Loehr, K-State Student Union Computer Store
Remedy service offline May 28-June 1 for upgrade
K-State's Remedy Help Desk/Change Management service
will be unavailable from Friday evening, May 28, through Tuesday, June 1,
due to a major upgrade of the server, Oracle database, and Remedy software.
CNS and ISO are collaborating on the upgrade, which will use
KEAS LDAP authentication
and provide a much-improved web client.
About 250 K-State employees are authorized to use Remedy, which is
software for managing help desk and desktop support as well as changes
to K-State's IT environment. Details will be e-mailed to each licensed
user on Wednesday, May 26.
Questions should be directed to supervisors or to Remedy contacts in each unit.
Administrative offices should direct questions to Ashley Mason, amason@ksu.edu,
532-4761. Those who don't know their contact can e-mail Ann Kosch,
arkosch@ksu.edu.
—A. Kosch, Computing and Network Services
Seven K-Staters presenting at CHECK
The CHECK conference program is June 3-4 on KU's Lawrence campus, and
the registration deadline is May 26. At least seven K-Staters are involved in presentations;
see the complete conference program for details on these
and more:
- Data Management & Integration
by Jan Alexander and Nicki Habluetzel, DIA
- IT Architectures for High Availability
by Harvard Townsend, CNS
- IT Project Management panel
includes Diana Blake, ISO
- E-mail Enhancements
by Julie Bell, CNS
- Wireless Policies & Implementations panel
includes Tony
Hoover, K-State-Salina
- Implementing Change Management
by Roberta Johnson, CNS
—B. Edwards, Computing and Network Services
SIDLIT conference Aug. 4-5
The Colleague to Colleague Summer Institute on
Distance Learning and Instructional Technology (SIDLIT, pronounced
"sidelight") is Aug. 4-5 at Johnson County Community College.
Attendees will
learn the latest instructional technology and distance education through
presentations, hands-on workshops, and special-interest break-out
sessions. For more details, see the
SIDLIT newsletter.
To register for this free conference, use the
registration
form.
—R. Gould, Information Technology Assistance Center
| Cool IT tool: YAPS |
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YAPS (Yet Another Password Safe) is for Palm OS devices.
This software allows you to securely store passwords and other information on your Palm Pilot
using 256-bit encryption. Access to the password safe is password-protected and automatically locks
you out if you switch applications or if your Palm is turned off. To download this free program,
go to www.msbsoftware.ch/yaps.html.
—from TechBytes "Cool Tools"
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| Website worth watching |
MeetingWizard
MeetingWizard
(www.meetingwizard.com)
is a free application that requires e-mail
and a browser, and allows users to arrange and schedule
meetings and other events. It
automatically sends invitations to participants and
proposes alternative meeting times, summarizes the
responses of invitees, updates the results, and sends
confirmations and optional reminders.
Send site suggestions to TellTuesday@ksu.edu.
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