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Video demonstrates free schedule maker
Sep 14th, 2020
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While UWinsite Student offers an .ics file download for students to add their class schedule to their calendaring program, it isn’t always enough.

Enter Free College Schedule Maker, an easy way for students to create a visual of their class schedule.

Watch Office of Open Learning’s student online learning assistant Mikayla Bornais as she demonstrates how to use Free College Schedule Maker in this 114-second Tech Talk video.

If you want more information about viewing, downloading, and creating visual class schedules, click on the links in the Comments section below the video.

Tech Talk is a presentation of IT Services. More Tech Talks are available at www.uwindsor.ca/its/tech-talk.

Task management app subject of instructional video
Sep 1st, 2020
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If you’re task oriented, To Do is the app for you, says Ericka Greenham. The Microsoft product helps users organize and simplify their plans, while freeing up some mental space.

Watch Greenham, co-ordinator of change management and communications in Information Technology Services, as she walks through tasks — the foundation of To Do — in this 129-second Tech Talk video.

Tech Talk is a presentation of IT Services. More Tech Talks are available at www.uwindsor.ca/its/tech-talk.

Video demonstrates installation and use of virtual private network
Aug 27th, 2020
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A virtual private network (VPN) is an encrypted connection established between your device and a trusted server. Everything sent through this connection is secure and private.

The University offers the GlobalProtect VPN. Its use is recommended when UWindsor community members are accessing protected campus resources or accessing an unfamiliar WiFi network.

Watch Information Technology Services team member Kevin Macnaughton demonstrate how to install and use the GlobalProtect VPN in this 123-second Tech Talk video.

If you want more information about the GlobalProtect VPN, click on the links in the Comments section below the video.

Tech Talk is a presentation of IT Services. More Tech Talks are available at www.uwindsor.ca/its/tech-talk.

IT Services produces guide for new Lancers
Aug 26th, 2020
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Information Technology Services has launched a Getting Started section on its website featuring resources to help new students, faculty, and staff with their technology needs and to help answer questions as they settle into UWindsor.

“We know there are an abundance of things new members of our campus community need to know and do,” says Ryan Kenney, executive director, IT Services. “Getting Started is our attempt to pull together the IT road markers on that larger map.”

IT Services asks established faculty and staff to direct new employees and incoming students to www.uwindsor.ca/its/getting-started for their guide to IT at UWindsor.

Getting Started is an evolving resource from IT Services. If you have suggestions to enhance this service, please share them here.

Video demonstrates how to change MFA methods
Aug 25th, 2020
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Need to add, change, or update your multi-factor authentication (MFA) method for your UWin account?

Watch IT Services team member Eric Masse demonstrate how to adjust methods of authentication using myprofile.microsoft.com in this 117-second Tech Talk video.

For more information about configuring your MFA methods, click on the link in the Comments section below the video.

Tech Talk is a presentation of IT Services. More Tech Talks are available at www.uwindsor.ca/its/tech-talk.

—Ericka Greenham