New: West Grace Street Housing Ramcam
The twelfth VCU Ramcam went live today at URL: http://www.vcu.edu/ramcam/wgrace. The Ramcam, which is mounted at the top of the West Broad Street parking deck, shows the construction of the newest student residences, known as West Grace Street Housing. To view one of the other 11 ramcams, please visit the VCU Ramcam home page located […]
Welcome Week Presentation
You can view the Welcome Week presentation (ppt) that the Director of VCU Web Services gave to a group of incoming freshman students. The focus of the presentation was Interested in finding – which course has seats still available – an available computing lab – create a blog or wiki – make an emergency phone […]
Let the migration begin
On Tuesday, 32 more virtual hosts were migrated from the current pubapps server to the new pubapps server. In total, 34 of the 68 virtual hosts have successfully been migrated to the new server. If no issues are detected then the next batch of virtual hosts will be migrated. Once all the virtual hosts have […]
What’s for dinner
Have you ever been on the go and wonder what’s for dinner. If you attend VCU and have a smart phone, you can now use the latest VCU mobile web site to what is for supper (or lunch or breakfast) at many of the VCU Dining facilities. After you download VCU Mobile for your […]
Employee Tab added to myVCU portal
An Employee Tab has been added to the myVCU portal. In the initial release, the tab contains three gadgets, Leave Balances, Pay Stubs and Holiday Schedule. The Leave Balances and Pay Stubs gadgets pull the data directly from Banner while the Holiday Schedule pulls the data directly from the Human Resources web site. […]
Go hits 2 million
What started out in January 2007 as a way for folks to have a permanent, short URL that they could publish on web sites and printed documents with the assurance that they would still be working months or years in the future has now become a staple at VCU. This past week, the go.vcu.edu keyword […]
Web Services’ Time Allocation
This past year, as part of a consultant review of Technology Services, Web Services identified where each staff member spent their time. There were six main areas: Web Services, Web Applications, Enterprise Portal, Directory Services, Mobile Web Services and Indirect. Below is a graph representing the percentage of time the 11 member Web Services team […]
VCU Training: Help finding a class
When one goes to VCU Training (http://training.vcu.edu), you will find that there are currently 370 classes to choose from: 219 are led by instructors and 151 are self-paced [CD, Web or Video]. To help you find the best class, a new search feature has been added that allows one to search all classes or just […]
CAS password expiration warning extended to 14 days
Most folks need to change their VCU eID passwords on a yearly basis. This summer, a new feature was added to the VCU Central Authentication System (CAS) that warns a person when their password is about to expire. Initially this warning began 7 days before the password was set to expire. Based on customer feedback, […]
VCU Mobile update: Available Public Computers
The Labstats application and its associated server were recently upgraded. As a result, the mobile web site, “Available Public Computers” was updated to reflect the changes. You can access this application from your mobile device by either downloading “VCU Mobile” for your Apple iOS device, Android, or Blackberry. It is also available for all other […]