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  • Register Now: Scary Cyber Tales: Don’t Let Your Data Go Bump in the Night

    Beth Varcho | October 13, 2025
    Attend "Scary Cyber Tales: Don’t Let Your Data Go Bump in the NightLearn" to learn about today’s most common threats—phishing, ransomware, malware, and social engineering—and pick up practical tips to keep your data safe. Join our cybersecurity experts for an hour of spooky tales and essential lessons to ensure your digital life doesn’t turn into a cyber nightmare!

  • Learn to Responsibly Manage Your Digital Storage

    Beth Varcho | October 13, 2025
    Join us to explore the storage options available to faculty, staff, and students—OneDrive, Teams and more. These sessions are ONLY open to faculty and staff at the university; the Medical Center has different storage solutions so advice provided may not apply.
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  • Ally selected in LMS Accessibility Scanner RFP

    Learning Systems | October 13, 2025
    Following an evaluation during summer 2025, the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) awarded the bid to Anthology for an accessibility scanning tool to be integrated with within the CarmenCanvas learning management system (LMS) and other Canvas instances. A committee of Ohio State instructional designers, faculty, staff, and students recommending adoption of Anthology’s tool Al...

  • Enhanced Listening Experience in Lecture Halls

    Beth Varcho | October 9, 2025
    The summer months are critical for the Learning and Collaborative Environments (LCE) team to complete upgrades to classroom pool facilities and technology. One feature added this summer was a new assistive listening technology, Mobile Connect, implemented in eight lecture halls.

  • Upcoming Changes to Mailman

    Beth Varcho | October 9, 2025
    OTDI is making important updates to the Mailman mailing list system to improve performance, security, and usability. Mailman is the software application we use for managing electronic mailing lists. We are upgrading our Mailman software from version 2 to version 3, and migrating the existing lists and archives.
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