University of Wisconsin - Madison CIO Project Updates

New Course Guide tab available

help@doit.wisc.edu(Division of Information Technology Help Desk) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:47:40 GMT

The Office of the Registrar is pleased to announce a new tab on My-UW called Course Guide. It is intended for use by students, faculty and instructors, departments, advisors and UW staff.

Course Guide helps users find courses, along with related information from many campus sources, in one spot. Currently, Course Guide offers:

Official course information
Current and future term/semester information
Links to the Schedule of Classes
Links to department websites
Browse by Course Title, Instructor, Subject and School/College
Course Detail including time/day/room information

In addition, we have a lot of exciting features coming this fall:

Create and save lists of favorite courses
Create and save lists of semester plans
Textbook information
Extensive search capabilities to help you find specific types of courses based on criteria that you select

We encourage everyone to check Course Guide out soon. This will be a useful tool for students as they prepare for spring enrollment later this semester. Additional details about new features will be posted later this semester.

Please send any comments or questions to courseguide@em.wisc.edu.

New features in My UW will aid researchers

help@doit.wisc.edu(Division of Information Technology Help Desk) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:47:40 GMT

In addition, other campus service providers have worked with the My UW Service Team to launch other new modules:

Campus Chat Connections — Ask a Librarian. DoIT Help Desk LiveChat. Ask Bucky. Writing Center. These and other live chat services will be in one place, called Campus Chat Connections, and you’ll find it in the Services tab this fall.
WiscChat — Carry on a live chat at the click of a button. A new WiscChat module is being added to My UW on the MyPage tab. Affiliated with WiscMail, WiscChat lets you instantly chat with others, either with the Web client or through a desktop client that you can download (e.g., PSI, iChat, Pidgin). For details, see www.doit.wisc.edu/wiscchat

To learn how your department can add personalized content to the portal, see www.doit.wisc.edu/myuw

Researchers, students and others will soon have a new set of resources available in My UW-Madison. With the suite of new My UW modules, researchers can, for example:

get faster access to favorite electronic databases and journals
find specialized facilities and equipment for projects
identify a local expert well-versed in a specific field.

The new research modules in My UW-Madison are:

Favorite Library E-Resources — With this new module, you can collect and categorize direct links to your favorite periodicals and research journals, saving multiple clicks over a standard search.
Research Facilities and Tools — Resources for researchers are all across campus, waiting to be shared with others. Researchers looking for specialized facilities (such as the Biotron) or for other tools and services can now find them in this new module, located in the Services tab. Groups that offer facilities or services will also be able to publish a description of their resource right in this module.
Find Experts and Expertise — UW-Madison has a wealth of researchers and content experts, often willing and eager to share their knowledge with others through new collaborations or simple conversation. You will be able to search for those experts, by topic, through this new module.

A group of campus faculty and students sparked interest in creating these modules, envisioning a set of applications that could facilitate the work of researchers. The concept was also embraced by the Research Computing Executive Committee, an advisory group to the Office of the CIO. Though the suite of three modules has unique applications for researchers, many on campus, including students, will find them valuable.

Additions to Campus Projects page

help@doit.wisc.edu(Division of Information Technology Help Desk) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:47:40 GMT

The Campus Projects site was recently updated. New projects include: Moodle and Digital Imaging.

To read more about these and other projects, or to subscribe to the RSS feed, go to http://www.cio.wisc.edu/projects/

To have projects that meet the criteria added, email laura.grady@doit.wisc.edu

Major update of Campus Projects page, May 2009

help@doit.wisc.edu(Division of Information Technology Help Desk) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:47:40 GMT

The Campus Projects site was recently updated. New projects include: Restricted Data Recovery Projects and Campus Captioning Service. Updated descriptions include: Web Content Management System (formerly RedDoT); Infra Incident Tracking Software; WiscCal beta project; and the Help Desk EAST Project. Several other projects were moved to the Recently Completed section of the site.

To read more about these and other projects, or to subscribe to the RSS feed, go to http://www.cio.wisc.edu/projects/

To have projects that meet the criteria added, email meg.mccall@doit.wisc.edu

Log event management added to campus projects page

help@doit.wisc.edu(Division of Information Technology Help Desk) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:47:40 GMT

The Campus Projects site was recently updated. Changes include the addition of the Log Event Management and Alerting in the Exploratory and Pilot Projects section of the site. The IT Strategic Plan description was also updated, under Planning Efforts. To read more about these and other projects, or to subscribe to the RSS feed, go to http://www.cio.wisc.edu/projects/

IAM web site unveiled

help@doit.wisc.edu(Division of Information Technology Help Desk) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:47:40 GMT

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) project team launched its new Web site and video today. The Web site provides the definition, benefits, principles and roadmap of IAM, including an informational video.

The Identity and Access Management project is deploying a suite of Oracle Identity and Access Management (IAM) products. IAM will provide University of Wisconsin System students and employees throughout the state, easier and faster access to system wide enterprise IT resources.

When complete, this project will update technology and enable UW System institutions to improve their processes for identity and access management. For more information, contact Project Manager Pam Allen.

New additions to campus projects page

help@doit.wisc.edu(Division of Information Technology Help Desk) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:47:40 GMT

The Campus Projects page was recently updated. Changes include the addition of the Pre-posting Allocations Tool project in the Division of Business Services and the "BadgerBadger" Message Relay System project in the College of Engineering. In addition, the eReimbursement System (formerly Automated Travel System) description was updated.

To read more about these and other projects, go to http://www.cio.wisc.edu/projects/

1st quarter campus projects page updates

help@doit.wisc.edu(Division of Information Technology Help Desk) — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:47:40 GMT

The Campus Projects page was recently updated. Changes include the addition of the WiscMail Web Client and the Data Sanitation Project, both in the Exploratory and Pilot Projects section. In addition, details of the following project descriptions were updated: WiscCal - Office Hours Scheduler; Infra Incident Tracking Software Implementation; IT Strategic Plan; Compromised Credential Management; Identity and Access Management; DoIT Business Continuity Plan; and the Disk Encryption Project.

To read more about these and other projects, go to http://www.cio.wisc.edu/projects/