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As the university moves forward into the Fall 2021 semester, Zoom will continue to be an important part of the lives of students, faculty, and staff. Be sure you are prepared for online collaboration by reviewing these important tips.
CU Print is the new campus printing service that offers students a fully streamlined experience across printers, fees, and functionality. The CU Print service represents a renewed commitment to sustainable printing at Cornell.
Seven suppliers have been granted new contracts to provide captioning services to Cornell. The contracts These contracts accommodate Cornell’s requirements for insurance, indemnification, web accessibility, and European Union General Data...
Starting August 8, 2021, Cornell Zoom accounts will allow users to create optional gender pronouns in their profiles. A new “Pronouns” field will let users enter set of personal pronouns, such as “she / her / hers,” which can be shared with others during meetings and webinars...
New AV services rates have been posted for FY 22.
Web accessibility continues to be a top priority at Cornell University. If you are involved with university websites in any way, or supervise individuals who are, please note these upcoming changes:
- The university compliance standard for web accessibility is changing to WCAG ...
Zoom has announced significant increases to participant limits for webinar licenses. Specifically, hosts with webinar licenses allowing them to host up to 100 participants will see the limit increased to 500. Similarly, hosts with “...
The WebSSO Modernization Project, which includes retiring CUWebAuth and migrating to Shibboleth, is moving forward with a focus on customer support to help expedite the migration process. As a reminder, the service retirement deadline is effective October 1, 2021. At that time, CUWebAuth will...
Starting Monday, July 26, 2021, Google will begin sending an email to all Google Drive (and YouTube) users who will be affected by an upcoming security change on September 13, 2021.
The first workshop session for Stage 2 of the project to implement Cority was held at the end of June 2021.
CIT Network Engineering will upgrade code and reboot all routers and switches that support the CIT data centers on Sunday, July 25th between 5:00am and 8:00am. There will be multiple brief (minutes long) outages during the maintenance window. Once the code upgrades are complete, full data...
Use best practices for consumer safety and beware of common scams around Independence Day.
FindTime is a Microsoft Outlook add-in that helps you and meeting invitees find the best time to meet.
Activity continues to help identify data, document, and file storage needs at Cornell.
Cornell’s virtual private network (CU VPN) provides secure remote access to campus IT resources from anywhere when needed. Two-Step Login for CU VPN further protects your account and access to Cornell sites and applications. By July 15, 2021, Two-Step Login will be required for all users to...
Under the sponsorship of the Alliance for Diversity and Inclusion, a multi-unit group that works to promote diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives at Cornell, thirteen Cornell students will take on a wide range of responsibilities in CIT through early...
Stage 2 of the implementation project for Cority services has officially launched.
On Sunday, August 1, 2021, Shibboleth Identity Provider (IdP) will be disconnected from CUWebAuth in support of the upcoming service retirement deadline. After the change, CUWebAuth- and Shibboleth-enabled websites will have separate login pages. Additionally, a new CUWebLogin user interface...
On Tuesday, June 22, 2021, between 4am and 8am, CU Print and Net-Print RFID card data functionality will be unavailable due to scheduled monthly updates. Once maintenance is completed, user functionality will be restored.
A common starting point for many scams is by email. A newly identified imposter scam involves a phishing email that leads to vishing or a "voice phishing" attack, designed to trick you into contacting a cybercriminal and giving up your credit card number and other personal details. As with all...