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  • Laptop

    OIT's computer bulk-buy event runs March 16-April 1

    March 18, 2022

    During this window Â鶹´«Ã½F, Â鶹´«Ã½ system office departments and Â鶹´«Ã½A have the opportunity to purchase Dell computers, laptops and monitors at highly discounted prices.

  • Foxit

    Foxit PDF Editor is available as a free alternative to Adobe Acrobat Pro

    March 18, 2022

    As departments consider shifting away from using Adobe Creative Cloud due to increased licensing costs, users who only need Acrobat Pro functionality are encouraged to explore alternatives such as Foxit PDF Editor.

  • Â鶹´«Ã½ Online

    Â鶹´«Ã½Online Outage: March 5-6, 2022

    March 04, 2022

    There is a planned outage for Â鶹´«Ã½Online on March 5-6.

  • Zoom

    Zoom 'Ask me anything' session

    March 04, 2022

    OIT Video Conferencing Services is offering an "Ask me anything" session about Zoom at 2 p.m. on March 8.

  • Taxes clip art

    This tax season, beware of IRS Imposter Scams

    February 18, 2022

    Your Â鶹´«Ã½ Security Matters team encourages you to protect yourself from Tax Identity Theft this tax season.

  • cloud storage

    Banner cloud migration on track

    February 18, 2022

    The Â鶹´«Ã½ Banner Cloud Migration project is currently on pace to meet a fall 2022 go-live date. With this migration to the Amazon cloud, Â鶹´«Ã½ will have a renewed capacity and agility to focus on innovations instead of mostly focusing on Banner maintenance.

  • Data center

    Funding requested for IT modernization

    February 04, 2022

    The State of Alaska has requested $20 million in federal infrastructure funding to overhaul student information technology systems for the Â鶹´«Ã½ system.

  • Online security

    Online Security Training Courses

    February 04, 2022

    The Â鶹´«Ã½ Office of Information Technology has a series of online security training courses available for staff and students to learn from.

  • Alert sign

    Â鶹´«Ã½ emergency communications overview

    January 21, 2022

    The Â鶹´«Ã½ Alert notification system is used to release information about emergencies (incidents) that may disrupt university operations. Here is what you need to know about the system.

  • Zoom logo

    Zoom Recording Cleanup

    January 21, 2022

    Since August 2019, Â鶹´«Ã½ has ballooned Zoom cloud storage usage from 15% to 86%. At our current pacing, we will exhaust our available storage in the next 10 weeks. Please review your Zoom cloud recordings and delete (or download & delete) all recordings that are not actively in use.