Technology Services

Tag: Announcements

  • 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.

  • Get your Gravatars!

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    jlencion

    We recently enabled some new features involving comments on blogs at Gustavus. One of the coolest features, and the one that could use a little help from you readers, is the addition of Gravatars.

  • Scheduled Maintenance: 5pm February 6, 2009

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    jeremy

    This evening, beginning at 5pm CST, Technology Services will be performing scheduled maintenance on a group of servers that provide essential functionality to the Gustavus Website. During the scheduled maintenance, portions of the website will be replaced with a friendly message stating the site is currently unavailable and provide some Gustavus-related links. The entire maintenance…

  • Reminder: Update Your Profile

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    jlencion

    Calling all faculty, administrators, and staff–now is the perfect time to check out your profile and make sure it is completely up to date. Make sure you have a picture! Or, if you haven’t created a profile yet, take a few minutes to introduce yourself to website visitors. If you want some inspiration, cruise the…

  • Our SQL servers get a RAM boost

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    jlencion

    Yesterday, we doubled the RAM in our SQL servers (bringing them up to 16GB each) so they can continue to be screaming-fast for the next few years as we expand our services on the web. For the technologically curious We have a failover cluster just in case one machine fails or needs updates–this allows us…

  • Fall ’08 Moodle Courses Now Available

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    joyce

    The Gustavus Moodle Server has been populated with all the current courses scheduled for Fall Semester 2008 for those faculty members who would like to transfer course materials from last year or set up a new course in preparation for the start of school in the Fall. For information on transferring materials from one course to…

  • Web-based process drives student-donor connection

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    jlencion

    Each year a substantial number of Gustavus students benefit from the generosity of donors. As a way to show thanks and strengthen connections between students and donors, students are invited to write thank-you letters to the people who made their scholarships possible. These thank-you letters are a critical component to Advancement’s donor strategy. These notes…

  • 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.

  • Stay Tuned for the Technology Tip of the Week

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    betsy

    Coming soon to Instructional Services is the Technology Tip of the Week. Each week (or so) Instructional Services will be providing you with a video or blog regarding a new tip. These will be in the form of Gustavus-oriented tips, help on multiple computing platforms, and general technological gray areas. Stay tuned for more information…

  • “Clickers” come to Gustavus

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    betsy

    New in the realm of education is a technology called “Audience Response Systems,” fondly known as “Clickers.” Different schools use them in different ways, but at Gustavus, we are implementing them for use as anonymous polling devices. Turning Point Technologies developed a program that works along side PowerPoint, allowing users to create presentations that poll…