Technology Services

Category: Projects

  • Commission Gustavus 150 Survey

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    jlencion

    Our goal was to design a survey that allows anybody in the Gustavus community to easily give input on 439 items. The challenge was identifying and implementing a method that would work for as wide of an audience as possible without being overwhelming. Hopefully, we have succeeded.

  • Improved Default Aux Box

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    jlencion

    Today we officially say goodbye to the stale “Did You Know” factoids from our website’s Aux Box (the blue column on the right side of many pages that contains extra content) and say hello to some new and improved, always-fresh content. By default, we now pull events from the College Calendar, news, and profiles into…

  • Local Navigation Context Clues

    Local Navigation Context Clues

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    jlencion

    If you’ve been paying close attention to the Gustavus website over the weekend, you’ve probably noticed that we added a subtle but helpful new feature to the Gustavus Template. Now, each page’s local navigation will highlight the page you are currently viewing if it happens to appear in the local navigation. For instance, check out…

  • E-mail Password Policy

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    nsonsteb

    Starting this October 15th, Gustavus Technology Services is requiring that users change their Gustavus e-mail passwords at least once per year. If you have changed your password recently, you do not need to take action at this time. For those of you that received an e-mail from Ethan Sommer on Thursday October 9th regarding your…

  • Google Calendar Training

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    nsonsteb

    If you were not able to make it to the Google Calendar Training session on Tuesday, there will be another training session tomorrow, July 24th, 2008, at 3:30pm in Olin 124. For more information, please visit our wiki article. Gustavus’ Google Calendar will enable you to: * Keep track of your schedule using an easy…

  • Events on the TV

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    jlencion

    We recently put a new system live that pulls events from the college calendar to the closed-circuit channel 8 on campus–which includes the television sets in the campus center.

  • A Work in Progress: Dual-Boot Classroom

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    nsonsteb

    Today, we have put the finishing touches on our first dual-boot computer lab. However, this indeed is a work in progress. Our dual-boot classroom is located in the Olin Technology Center’s teaching computer lab. The lab consists of 9 Mac Mini’s that are running both Mac OSX Tiger and Windows XP. When you sit down…

  • Gustavus Website Updates

    Gustavus Website Updates

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    jerry

    We’ve made some noticeable modifications to the Gustavus template recently. The changes were made to address various minor issues, the foremost being usability problems in the “seach/go quickly to…” area of the header. Simple, comprehensive searching Where once we had a “go quickly to…” menu, search box, and search menu, we now have one simple…

  • hCards in the Footer

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    jlencion

    As part of our ongoing quest to incorporate useful microformats throughout the Gustavus website, we have added an hCard to the footer of every page within the Gustavus template. What does this mean? Now, visitors who use hCard aware technologies, such as the Operator extension for Firefox, will be able to add contact information for…

  • New Library Group Study Rooms

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    jtwaddle

    On the first floor of the Library, room 102 and 106 are now home to Hector and Helen. Both rooms have a 32″ flat screen monitor, a Mac mini, two keyboards, and two mice that can be used for Group Projects. There is also a connection for a laptop so it can be connected to…