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  • 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.

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    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.

  • ua online

    New year, new information updates

    January 07, 2022

    With 2021 behind us and the new year off to a start, now is a good time to make sure your online information is correct and up to date.

  • uaa sign

    Â鶹´«Ã½A website gets an update!

    January 07, 2022

    After a robust design process encompassing Information Technology, University Advancement, the Web Advisory Committee and many others, the Â鶹´«Ã½ Anchorage campus website has been updated to reflect a new modern design!