Web Services 2010-2011 Annual Report
The Web Services 2010-2011 annual report (PDF format) has been posted on the Web Services home page. The annual report of the 11 member Web Services team provides a little insight into their goals, tasks, accomplishments and impact. You are encouraged to review and comment on this annual report.
Cabell RamCam is back on-line
The Cabell RamCam is now back on line thanks to Technology Services’ Media Support Systems group. You can now enjoy the sites outside of the VCU Cabell Library by visiting the ramcam at URL: http://www.vcu.edu/ramcam/cabell.html.
Filedrop: Over 1 tb served
Begun in June 2010, Filedrop has now been used to send over 1 terabyte of data. Filedrop was created to address the attachment size limit when VCU moved its students from Lotus Notes, which allowed 25 mb attachment, to Gmail, which only allow 10 mb attachments. Filedrop has surely reduce email storage since […]
Fall 2011 Student Parking Decal Sales
On Wednesday, July 13th, the Fall 2011 student parking decal sale was held. A record number of transactions was recorded when at 8:07 AM on the 13th, 162 decals were acquired in one minute. This equated to 2.7 transactions per second. In total, 2,263 decals were acquired on the first day of the sale.
VCU WordPress blog is officially ready for production
We are officially releasing WordPress as an option as of today. The URL for wordpress is: http://wp.vcu.edu. Like the MoveableType blog, to get a personal account one simply goes to URL: http://wp.vcu.edu and login with your VCU eID and password. Once you have a personal blog, you may create a non-personal blog by using the […]
CAS makes it easier to change your password
A new service to remind VCU community members to reset their eID password when logging in using the VCU Central Authentication Service (CAS) was implemented. The CAS tool is used for logging into systems such as the myVCU Portal, VCU Training and many other applications. Email notifications will still be issued beginning 14 days from […]
go.vcu.edu keywords hits #500
Like 500 Home Runs in baseball, the VCU Keyword application, http://go.vcu.edu, now has 500 keywords. The 500 keywords have been access over 1.9 million times, with the most popular keyword being ‘eidfinder’. http://go.vcu.edu/eidfinder has been accessed of 112,000 times.
VCU Mobile version 2.1.1 for Blackberry released
Blackberry version 2.1.1 of VCU Mobile was released yesterday. The primary purpose of this release is to fix the campus maps module. It now presents a searchable single campus map for VCU. You can download this version by going to the Blackberry app store.
998 podcasts are available at itunes.vcu.edu
VCU began using iTunes university back in 2007. Last year, VCU was officially recognized in the iTunes University list of colleges and universities. At present, there 998 podcasts stored at itunes.vcu.edu. There are 41 podcasts that are available to the general public with 40 of these being either VCU Athletics or VCU TV/HD. There are […]
Technology Services Mobile is now live
The initial Technology Services mobile site is now live and is available from the “Sites” module within VCU Mobile (m.vcu.edu) or directly by going to URL (m.ts.vcu.edu). TS Mobile allows folks to Search the TS Mobile site Navigate the Askit Knowledge Base View the University compter labs and see which ones have available computers Contact […]