MyForms – Upcoming Change
This is a notice that on Thursday, September 29th Web Services will be making a change to MyForms.vcu.edu (Change Management #9001004). The change will add a unique email subject for each email sent by the application so that Gmail does not combine submissions into a single message thread. This change has been approved by the […]
Video Server Decommission – Final Notice
On August 1st, 2016 video.vcu.edu was powered off and individuals with video content were unable to access the server without intervention from Web Services. This email serves as a final notice that on September 15th, 2016 the server will be fully decommissioned. In addition, on October 1st, 2016 Web Services plans to turn off the […]
WordPress – Upcoming Maintenance
In an effort to get everything ready for the new school year, the wp.vcu.edu blogging service will undergo maintenance on Thursday, August 18th from 5:30-6 a.m. This change has been approved and is detailed in the Change Request #9000517. During this time all blogs and websites hosted on the platform will be unavailable for about 10 […]
Wiki – User registration model changes
In an effort to address performance and user related issues Web Services will be altering the user registration model for wiki.vcu.edu (Change Management Request #9000636). Beginning August 9th, 2016, new users who require access to wiki.vcu.edu will need to submit a Service Desk ticket (servicedesk.vcu.edu) to the Wiki category with the following details: For individuals, we […]
VCU Mobile has been updated
Over the past few days, a new version of VCU Mobile has been released for both Apple IOS and Android devices. The primary change was that VCU Mobile now uses the mobile version of the VCU Events Calendar (events.vcu.edu) instead of the native app. This not only provides more consistency and accuracy, but also provides […]
Nearly 25% of the myVCU portal visits are from phones and tablets
The trends in accessing VCU resources is clearly moving towards smartphones primarily and tablets. In 2015, nearly 1/4 of the visits to the myVCU Portal was from a mobile (smartphone) device or a tablet.
WordPress is slow
WordPress is experiencing slowness due to system related work prior to the beginning of the Spring semester. I do apologize for this. System work will conclude by the end of the week.
Events Calendar gets a facelift
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 […]
Four new/updated applications
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 […]
Web Accessibility
As stated in the May 2015 Web Users Group meeting, an accessibility task force has been formed and will meet on a regular basis this summer to provide recommendations for better standards and improvements to VCU’s web presence. This past week, VCU’s accessibility tool “achecker.ts.vcu.edu” was modified to validate against WCAG 2.0 (Level A) with the option to also […]