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At Cornell, staff and faculty members work in an environment of constant change. While this can bring uncertainty, it also opens the door to new ideas, collaboration, and personal growth. No matter your role at the university, the following resources are designed to support you—offering tools…
On April 2, 2025, more than 400 Cornell community members gathered to examine individual and collective responsibility regarding how data are stored, used, interrogated, and verified. The day was spent bringing together the community to seriously explore and discuss the critical role of data in…
If you have an AD group you keep up to date and want to sync those changes to one or more Microsoft Teams teams that you manage, you can submit a request to Link Team Membership to an Existing AD Group.Once approved, this will sync the team membership, both adding and removing members, with the AD…
It's now possible to rename the General channel that is included in every team in Microsoft Teams. This change removes a problem for teams who want all channels defined in order to avoid confusion about where messages should be posted.
Cornell’s AI Initiative supports university faculty, staff, and students as they explore models to optimize the use of generative AI for practical purposes. On January 22, 2025, eight local teams stunned a hybrid audience with presentations proving generative AI applications could simplify and…
Regularly check files stored in collaboration services like Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Box to make sure that:You have the right level of sharing on your files, and access is only extended to individuals who should see them.Others' files are not shared to you by someone who has left. Those…
Microsoft has announced that soon the capabilities of Microsoft Project for the web will be part of Planner Premium. This change follows the recent unification of the standard features of Planner and Microsoft To Do in Planner Basic, available to all Cornell Microsoft 365 users. Planner Premium and…
In a fast-paced stream of presentations, Cornell faculty, staff, and students showcased their use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) to solve unique challenges they faced in their courses and work on Wednesday, January 22, 2025.
In October 2024, many files shared from OneDrive accounts whose owners left Cornell went into read-only mode. Since then, individuals still at Cornell who have access to the files have been able to view or download them, but not edit them.The week of February 17, 2025, the defunct accounts and the…
On the afternoon of October 15, 2024, concurrent breakout sessions engaged the Emerging Tech Dialogue participants in conversations about coming changes as well as how to approach and navigate the people-side of change, also known as organizational change management.
Near the end of October 2024, Cornell Microsoft 365 accounts owned by someone who has left will become read-only, as a step toward eventual deletion. The past owners of these accounts have not been able to access them since they left. However, it's possible that some files in the accounts' OneDrive…
DescriptionIn Fall 2024 CIT developed a chatbot tool that allows Cornell to use AI in a Cornell-owned environment. The goals of this project included providing an AI tool that could be used with moderate risk data.
Microsoft Teams is an important collaboration tool for many at the university, but if you’re not careful, you could lose important information that you’ve shared with your team.
The Cornell Experience Modernization Initiative (CEMI, said as "See Me") seeks to unify and improve the technology systems we use on all university campuses to support human resources, finance, student services, research, and advancement. More information about this university-wide program can…
Starting in late September 2024, Microsoft 365 Groups and Teams that have had no activity for a year or more, and whose owners do not respond to warning notices, will start to be deleted. Any activity in the Group or Team from any member within thirty days of the owner receiving the deletion…
Two Google storage tiers planned and announced in 2022 will eventually be added for some alumni Google accounts. Alumni accounts with less than 4.5 Gigabytes (GB) of content will be given a quota of 5 GB. Accounts with more than 4.5 GB and less than 9 GB of storage will have a quota of 10 GB. This…
Microsoft Teams is the collaboration tool of choice for faculty and staff at Cornell, but it's not without its quirks.
If Microsoft Teams notifications have been troublesome, it may be because your notifications are set to be too general. Getting constant updates about conversations that aren't…
Rob Vanderlan, Executive Director of the Center for Teaching Innovation, is no stranger to the disruption that generative AI tools can bring to a classroom.
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