IT Advisory Board meeting - October 2018

Student Portal Feedback (Mockups of new portal)

  • Academic planner looks like a great tool - it will be important to market this to first years

  • A legend for the different symbols should be included 
  • Will there still be duplicates of exam times?
  • All of the different calendars should be condensed into one calendar with filters

Portal 2.0 Feature requests 

  • Integrate more features between Learn and Portal

  • Ability to opt-in to or out of certain news items
  • Link all the different tools required by certain classes to Portal
    • My account lab
    • Markus
    • Pearson
    • Tophat
    • Piazza
    • Crowdmark
    • ECEapps
    • Reef
    • Kahoot!
  • Link Lime scooter locations
  • Grade calculator should be able to get data from Marmoset, Markus, MyAccountingLab, Crowdmark for our non-Learn classes

Feedback and updates on past items?

  • While discussing improving the availability of sign-out equipment at IST Service Desks, someone suggested using Googles open source chromebook signout tool to handle this

  • Explained the reasoning from security for using DUO instead of Google Authenticator (And will share further reading with group)
  • Shared the news of upcoming switch to virtual printers
  • Showed the new Help & Support Page, and the migration of Wi-Fi guides to the knowledge base
  • Talked about the problems with Remote Desktop and narrowed it down to a VPN problem
  • More detail was provided on E7 Wi-Fi problems
    • During classes, on the 4th floor (little over 100 people with 2 APs)
    • It was also mentioned that SLC great hall wi-fi is bad when there is ~200 people there.