Category: News from ITS

Welcome Fiona MacNeill, Carleton’s new AT supporting Studio Art, Art History, Cinema & Media Studies, Music, Theatre & Dance, Ed Studies, English, Physical Education & Recreation, and Archeology. 

Carleton’s ISP is working on repairing their equipment which connects us to the Internet.

This summarizes the problem most people experienced using email today.

ITS reorganizes after a year-long development process.

The original email/calendar evaluation project has completed its work. The group’s report recommends migration to the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, and advisory committees have accepted that recommendation. A group has been formed to work on migrating all existing academic IMAP and administrative GroupWise users to Zimbra, likely finishing during Fall 2007. Some demos of the Zimbra web interface (require Flash and sound) are available.

An ITS workgroup is searching for a new integrated email/calendar system for the whole campus to use for implementation this summer. We have identified 4-5 possible packages and would like to request the help of the Carleton community in making a final purchasing recommendation. We will be conducting focus group research in which we have equal representation of students, staff and faculty. This group will help the ITS workgroup complete their evaluation process by participating in a demonstration of the candidate systems, spending a period of 10 days using one of the demo systems, and providing us with feedback on their experiences. The ITS workgroup will then use this data to provide an informed recommendation for our new email/calendar system.

For more information and to volunteer for the focus group, please visit this page:
http://apps.carleton.edu/campus/its/projects/email_calendar/focusgroup/

If you missed the ITS News in your mailbox, you can still check it out online. Highlights include emerging technologies, OneCard updates, staff profiles, ISPs, phishing, and technology recycling information. Read the PDF.

If you purchased an Apple, Dell, IBM, or Lenovo portable notebook computer, you may be eligible for a free replacement battery.

We are pleased to announce that Carleton’s course management system selection process has come to a successful completion. The selection committee unanimously nominated Moodle.

ITS will be implementing quotas on the top-level department, project, committee and student organizations to try to avoid having the COLLAB volume fill unexpectedly.