Technology Services

Tag: Announcements

  • So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

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    jlencion

    My past 11 years at Gustavus as student-turned-employee have been wonderful, but this is my last month at Gustavus. It is now time for us to part ways. It is difficult for me to let go of something that I have spent countless hours thinking about and working on: the Gustavus website. But, I know…

  • Now Hiring

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    jlencion

    Gustavus Adolphus College is seeking a Web Developer to work as a member of Web Services to program and provide support for the maintenance and augmentation of the College’s web presence. As a key component of this dynamic office, this individual is expected to be organized, resourceful, and able to effectively collaborate within a team…

  • Introducing the Online Sound Library

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    jlencion

    Over the past couple of years, we have been working with the Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library to digitize their sound library and present it on the web in an easy-to-use way. Yesterday, this enormous project was completed. The entire sound library has been digitized and all of the liner notes have been scanned.

  • Now Hiring

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    jlencion

    We have a job opening in Web Services for a Web Developer. Here’s posting: Gustavus Adolphus College is seeking a Web Developer to work as a member of Web Services to program and provide support for the maintenance and augmentation of the College’s web presence. As a key component of this dynamic office, this individual…

  • Campus Technology Virtual Conference

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    joyce

    Instructional Services will be hosting a live, virtual conference sponsored by Campus Technology. The virtual conference will be held Thursday, November 18th from 10:00am to 5:00pm in the Olin Technology Classroom. The conference is free and open to the campus community. There will be five sessions throughout the day, including “New IT Strategies for a…

  • Mass Actions

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    joyce

    Over the summer, the Moodle server was upgraded to the newest version and some new modules were. One of the new modules installed is called “Mass Actions.” Mass Actions allows you to select multiple resources (by clicking a checkbox) and then applying a mass action to the items selected. This is incredibly helpful if you…

  • Shorter is Still Better

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    jlencion

    In our eternal quest to optimize the Gustavus website, we removed the “academics” part of URLs.

  • Delivering a Faster Website

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    jlencion

    One of the most important parts of user experience on the web is how fast the pages actually load. We have been optimizing the Gustavus website for speed and have achieved some promising results.

  • Weather for Saint Peter

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    jlencion

    We switched from a fee-based weather data service to use the freely available weather data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration today.