Maintenance this week will affect KFiles, Computer labs, and more.
Information Services Announcements
Update to Faculty
A message from our CIO, Greg Diment: The Information Services Team has worked to produce extensive content to support online learning and collaboration during Spring Quarter…
Moving from Zoom to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is our institutionally supported videoconferencing application and offers many collaboration features. Due to its integration into the College’s technology infrastructure and the requirement of login credentials, it is more secure than other clients that are increasingly targets of disruption and attacks…
Special Software Availability for Distance Learning
Many software companies are providing students free access to software this term
Scheduled maintenance for 2020-04-02
Maintenance this week will affect Moodle and VPN.
Forums and Other Options: Student Writing in Moodle
One of Moodle’s strengths is the ability to collect student writing online. There are a multiple Moodle Activities designed to accomplish this, and this post is going to discuss the key features and settings of three: Forum, OU Blog, and Assignment…
The Distance Learning Tech Toolkit
Welcome back students! Although circumstances are vastly different this quarter, the Information Services team would still like to give you a warm welcome back to Kalamazoo College and share how we can support you. We understand that this abrupt transition to distance learning is not easy and our goal is to provide as much support as we can through transparency, documentation, and communication.
Tips for Working Securely from Home
One of our goals is to enable faculty and staff to work as securely as possible from home. Our partner in security awareness training, SANS, offers these five steps.
Scheduled maintenance for 2020-03-26
Maintenance this week will affect Colleague, VPN, and more.
How Do I Deliver Video to My Students?
There are many ways to take video content and deliver it to students online. We’re going to talk about recommended solutions for spring quarter…