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Watch February’s “Secure in Seconds” to learn about phishing attempts
The University Technology ([U]Tech) Information Security Office continues its Security Awareness Video of the Month Series—“Secure in Seconds”—in February for members of the Case Western Reserve University community. February’s topic is phishing. In February’s video, the speaker warns about…
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Several systems to be unavailable early Tuesday
Due to scheduled maintenance, multiple systems will experience a brief outage Tuesday, Jan. 30, from 3 to 6 a.m. The following systems will be affected: Advance and Wizard APEX (Oracle Application Express) Applications Aurora Maintainer Account System Campus Map Course Evaluation…
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PeopleSoft HCM to be unavailable early Saturday
Due to scheduled maintenance, PeopleSoft HCM will be unavailable Saturday, Jan. 27, from midnight to 8 a.m. During this time, employees will be unable to view or update employee information, including entering updated personal information, entering time, approving time and viewing paychecks, in…
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Cautionary message may appear in internal emails
As a result of adjustments made to the university's email system to comply with Google's upcoming security changes, some users may see a gold banner at the top of emails advising caution. If you click on "Looks safe," the message should not appear in future emails from the same sender. If the…
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PeopleSoft Financials to be unavailable early Sunday
PeopleSoft Financials will be unavailable Sunday, Jan. 21, from 3 to 6 a.m. ET due to scheduled system maintenance. During this time, users will not be able to log into the system to view or update travel and expense information, enter a requisition or use SmartCart. Once the maintenance is…
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EMS Spartan Reservation System to undergo maintenance
Due to scheduled maintenance, the EMS Spartan Reservation System will be unavailable from Thursday, Jan. 18, at 9 p.m. through Friday, Jan. 19, at 2 a.m. Campus users will be unable to book a room or workspace for a brief window during this time. For assistance with any technology product or…
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Try out audience response system Poll Everywhere in your undergraduate courses this spring
In response to faculty feedback, University Technology’s Teaching and Learning Technologies Team is launching a semester-long audience response pilot for Case Western Reserve University undergraduate courses in spring 2024. In this pilot, the audience response system Poll Everywhere will be…
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PeopleSoft Financials to be unavailable early Sunday
PeopleSoft Financials will be unavailable from Sunday, Jan. 15, at 12:01 through 5 a.m. ET due to scheduled system maintenance. During this time, users will not be able to log into the system to view or update travel and expense information, enter a requisition or use SmartCart. Once the…
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Microsoft Copilot AI offering available for use
Microsoft has recently rebranded its artificial intelligence offering from Bing Chat Enterprise to Microsoft Copilot, which is now available to all students, faculty and staff. Although this service uses the Open AI’s ChatGPT language model, any data entered into it is not shared or used in…
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Watch [U]Tech’s latest cybersecurity awareness video
The University Technology ([U]Tech) Information Security Office continues its Security Awareness Video of the Month Series—“Secure in Seconds”—in January for members of the Case Western Reserve University community. January’s topic is “Security Awareness as a Cause.” In January’s video, the…