News for and about University of Portland faculty and staff.
Another month means more updates, so please do not forget to make sure that your Zoom client is up to date. For more information on making updates, as well as an overview of new features for the month of May, please see our May 16th Techtalk Blog post.
VoiceThread’s new assignments experience launched for everyone on June 30. Visit ATSI’s TechTalk site to learn more about the changes and access training materials.
Zoom has released its new updates for the month of June including a number of bug and security fixes. For more information on the newest features and how to ensure that your Zoom client has the most recent updates, visit ATSI’s monthly Zoom article on the Techtalk Blog.
Questions about using Zoom? Contact ATSI
Zoom has released a couple of exciting new features for the month of May, as well as standard monthly bug and security fixes. For more information on the newest features and how to ensure that your Zoom client has the most recent updates, visit ATSI’s monthly Zoom article on the Techtalk Blog.
Information services is pleased to welcome Ryan Ingersoll as director of academic technology and innovation. In this position he will oversee development of classroom and on-line academic technology, with an eye on innovation and digital literacy among our faculty. In addition, post COVID he will have the opportunity to re-imagine the student-run On The Bluff Studio.
Ryan comes to us from George Fox University where he led several Ed Tech projects. He holds a master in education from Seattle Pacific in digital education leadership. Please join the information services team in congratulating and welcoming Ryan to our community.
With a new month comes new updates, and users should check their Zoom version now to make sure they apply these updates. For more information, including an important FYI for Mac users, please read ATSI’s newest TechTalk Article.
Over the month of December, two of academic technology services and innovation’s key tools received updated functionality that will be beneficial to online course work. See ATSI’s December Techtalk post about the updates for more information.
For additional resources or training for either platform, please feel free to reach out to ATSI via email (atsi@up.edu).
Zoom has announced a two-part webinar series to take place this month. The series will be aimed at helping users increase their skill in building connection in online classrooms and meetings. For more information, or to sign up for the series, see Academic Technology Services and Innovation’s November 4th TechTalk post using this link.
For more information contact Dawn Lloyd, academic technology services and innovation, at lloyd@up.edu.
Academic technology services and innovation (ATSI) will be performing maintenance on its WordPress platform to ensure best function and security. To enable technicians to complete this maintenance, pages on sites.up.edu will be unavailable from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Thursday, October 29.
Please contact ATSI with any questions.
Both Zoom and TechSmith have recently announced key updates to their available features to enhance use in online instruction. To find out more about these new features, please see our post in the TechTalk Blog: New Features Coming to Zoom and TechSmith.
We hope you will find these new features exciting and helpful!
For more information contact Dawn Lloyd, ATSI, at lloyd@up.edu.