Web Services

Note 7/17/2025: The RamCam upgrade has been postponed to next week, hopefully. After years of dedicated service, our two remaining RamCams are finally getting a prodigious upgrade. We’re talking 4K resolution, 60 frames per second, a 1/2.5″ CMOS sensor, Lightfinder, Wide Dynamic Ranges and all sorts of things we don’t fully understand! These new cameras […]

First off, a huge thank you to our awesome and patient community. Thanks to all of you, we’ve taken care of the last few issues and are now confident we can finally shut down the wiki.vcu.edu server. While the server itself will go offline, we’re implementing some clever redirects for the wiki.vcu.edu domain. Our goal […]

We’re almost an entire week in the cloud! Thanks to everybody who assisted us in all the testing and advice. The next step is two-fold– we’ll convert the wiki.vcu.edu space to a read-only environment to encourage everybody to pay more attention to their new Cloud Space… and then we’ll sunset the service entirely by issuing […]

In October 2023, we revealed the plan to move our wiki.vcu.edu “Confluence” app into Atlassian’s cloud offerings. It has taken us a bit of time to arrange all of the ducks, but we’re approaching the time to actually move. As of this post, we will not be creating any more spaces on wiki.vcu.edu, and existing […]

Tap, tap– tap, tap. Does this thing still work? Atlassian Confluence 7.4.17, affectionately known as wiki.vcu.edu is up for a change. We recognize that the Wiki is already a critical application all around VCU’s departments. Over the last few years, we’ve seen little functionalities drop as we switch Directory Services, or as a handful of […]

The VCU Events Calendar public interface was redesigned.   In addition to a new look, it is both web accessible (WCAG 2.0 Level A) and mobile friendly.    We will continue to improve the rest of the application including a redesign of the management side as well as adding new features and functionality. The VCU Events Calendar […]

Introducing four new/updated applications: Filelocker, Course Match, VCU Mobile and Password Resets. Filelocker https://filelocker.vcu.edu Filelocker is replacing Filedrop.  In addition to allowing VCU folks to send up to 2GB files to recipients, Filelocker has many new features, including Allows non-VCU folks to be invited to send files to VCU recipients Does email look-ahead when entering […]

On November 12th we applied a security patch to the Filedrop system and after immediate testing everything seemed to be working fine. In the days following we have heard a few users report that they have experienced intermittent service with the application. We have since identified the error, remedied the problem and will continue to […]

VCU Keywords, known as go.vcu.edu, has now served more than 6 million customer requests.  Begun in 2007 as way to provide a vcu.edu URL that is both permanent and easy to remember, VCU keywords are now providing access to nearly 700 web sites. If you would like to learn more, use any of the existing […]

On December 15, we will take the first steps toward removing Movable Type, the backend of blog.vcu.edu, by permanently deleting inactive personal blogs from the system and the server. Departmental and organizational blogs — as well as any WordPress blog hosted at wp.vcu.edu — will be unaffected. To learn more about the criteria we used […]