The term “Phishing” refers to communications that, like regular fishing, use a type of “bait” to compel the reader “bite” in a way that ends up revealing sensitive or privileged information or which allows their system to be compromised. These are one of the most common types of e-mail scams out there at present. Below [...]
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The Application Services area of ITS is thrilled to once again be fully staffed after many months getting by with several vacancies. Please welcome the following 3 people to ITS as they begin their first day on October 1. Kassy Swain has spent many years providing IT technical support to the Admissions areas of Corinthian College. She [...]
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ITS is pleased to announce that our vacant programmer position has been filled . Jeff Stiles begins work on September 17. Jeff is a graduate of The University of Kansas with a B.S. in computer science. He has worked the past 8 years as a Senior Programmer/Analyst at AllofE solutions in Lawrence. In this role [...]
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Washburn University produces and streams live sporting events for home games in football, volleyball, & men’s and women’s basketball. Production crews are comprised of students hired as camera operator, audio engineer, graphics engineer and director. Productions are led by Instructional Services staff who serve as the producer, mentor and trainer for the student crew members. All the crew [...]
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I (Sue Taylor-Owens) will be hosting the first in, hopefully, a series of presentations/discussions focused on Online Course Management – Clear Expectations. This presentation/discussion will be covering “Making a Clear Syllabus.” I will be presenting in the TLC (Bennett Computer Center room 102) and also via Adobe Connect, for anyone who wants to join us [...]
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The LMS review/selection committee has released an RFP for vendors to submit proposals for a new LMS to be implemented for Washburn University and Washburn Institute of Technology by Fall 2013. Vendor proposal deadline is Aug. 31st, 2012. Following proposal submissions by the vendors, the selection committee will review proposals and meet on Sept. 11th to make a final recommendation on what vendors to [...]
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Just a quick security reminder as we all start a new semester: Washburn staff will NEVER ask for your password in an e-mail. No other organization you do business with should ever ask you for your password via e-mail either. Never send anyone your password via e-mail. While our security filters successfully [...]
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Washburn Information Technology Services is completing the installation of new wireless equipment in Residential Living facilities to better meet the needs and expectations our students living on campus. We expect this will provide substantially better service than our old system as we see more students, more equipment, and a wider variety of devices communicate on [...]
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I recently ran across a couple of great articles regarding discussions. The first, from Faculty Focus, concentrates on face-to-face courses but can easily be translated into the online course. It is “Five Reasons Getting Students to Talk is Worth the Effort“. The 5 reasons given are: Students learn content when they talk about it. Talking [...]
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