We asked: Are workshops / demos a good way to spread awareness and teach tech to students?
- Overwhelmingly, the answer was no
- This would be a big time commitment
- Students may find it difficult to attend
- Student societies already run workshops; not well attended
- Some other ideas as possible alternatives:
- Sticker campaign (collect the set)
- 'spin' wheel for prizes (stickers, slice of pizza)
- Short videos like CRA has for 'how to file your tax return'
- Ensure there are subtitles so students can watch without sound
We asked: How can we make it easier for students to report problems with services like Wi-Fi, where data collection is crucial to effective troubleshooting?
- Wi-Fi reporting tool (As it turns out, this does exist...maybe we can highlight this more)
- Traffic shaping by application
- As an example, Learn could be dedicated 75% of AP bandwidth in a classroom
- Injected HTML
- When the system detects problems, injected HTML could propose a survey / wi-fi reporting tool
- similar to rogers "acknowledgement" for bandwidth usage
- When the system detects problems, injected HTML could propose a survey / wi-fi reporting tool
- "Why is my Wi-Fi slow?" posters to try and visually explain some of the limitations of Wi-Fi in a university setting
- push 5GHz
- Digital display of Wi-Fi traffic
- "There are 600 people on Wi-Fi in this building"
- "This building is using 763 mbps"
- Have IT Service Desks check for 2.4GHz as a first step
Other notes
- New cyber awareness site looks cool; not sure if I would go out of my way to look for it, but now that I've gone to it, it's one of the best UW sites
- One way to make our posters more appealing would be to use blinking LED posters
