Tech Tip: Bridgy Fed
This month’s Tech Tip helps you connect Mastodon and Bluesky, allowing you to interact across these decentralized platforms seamlessly.
Category Archives: Campus News
Michigan IT Transitions to Michigan Technology Community
Michigan IT is evolving to become the Michigan Technology Community, a change that underscores a broader, more inclusive mission to unite and celebrate the impactful work of all technology experts at U-M.
Make a Maizey Workshops for Instructors: 12/11 and 12/18
All U-M instructors are invited to join the ITS Emerging Technology team to learn how to create a custom AI tutor for their courses using Maizey.
Tech Tip: Toggle ’em all
This month’s Tech Tip allows you to quickly check or uncheck all check boxes on a webpage in a single click.
MPassport: Enhancing the international student experience
Student Life’s International Center supports U-M international students, faculty, and staff, as well as campus community members going abroad for study, work, and travel. Before 2021, the center relied on various Microsoft Access databases and software tools to engage with and track its constituents, lacking a unified system to streamline operations. The move to MPassport significantly reduced the… Read More »
New Enhancements for MiMaizey, Personal AI Assistant for U-M Students
ITS is excited to announce a new round of MiMaizey enhancements designed to offer more efficient assistance, including advanced web search capabilities and a deeper awareness of University of Michigan resources.
Fall 2024 Enhancements to Maizey AI
Earlier this fall, the Emerging Technology team within ITS released several improvements and new features for our custom generative AI tool, Maizey. As the academic year unfolds, these features will help faculty, staff, and students to streamline workflows, create and interact with custom AI tutors, and more.
LSA Technology Services staff win major collegewide awards
The College of Literature, Science, and the Arts (LSA) celebrated its annual Staff Achievement Awards, spotlighting the exceptional contributions of its staff. This year, LSA Technology Services stood out by winning two of the four collegewide awards, reinforcing the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as outstanding leadership. Sanam Aldag Wins Robin Sarris Outstanding Supervisor Award… Read More »
Michigan Time: Keeping the University in Sync
New architecture, launched in July, provides the university with a robust precision time infrastructure and supports the Network Time Protocol (NTP) service for the U-M campuses.
Upgrades to ‘My UM-Flint’ portal enhance user experience for campus community
My UM-Flint, the central digital hub for authenticated campus resources at the University of Michigan-Flint, now offers increased functionality and customization.
Michigan Housing gets an Upgrade
Michigan Housing adopts StarRez as the new occupancy management system.
STAC Annual Charter Review / Officer Election
After serving as chair for one year and vice chair for one year, Carrie Shumaker, Dearborn vice chancellor for information technology and chief strategy officer, passed the chair leadership position to vice chair Cathy Curley, chief information officer, College of Literature, Science and the Arts.
2024 Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) Networking Group Meeting at U-M
Information and Technology Services (ITS) Infrastructure networks and Wi-Fi groups hosted the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) bi-annual network meeting on May 23 and 24. More than 50 network directors and IT technical leaders convened at the Michigan Ross School of Business to share IT expertise and foster collaborations among the Big Ten Academic Alliance (BTAA) research universities.… Read More »
STAC Summit Meeting and ITS IA Open House
Two April events brought the U-M IT security community together in a spirit of engagement, transparency and shared goals.
U-M’s Alumni Association Streamlines LEAD Scholarship Applications with Salesforce Integration
U-M’s Alumni Association has improved its LEAD Scholarship Application process by integrating Salesforce. The new system streamlined the award process, reducing overhead and improving efficiency. The LEAD program processed over 1400 applications, and more than 80 scholarships were offered for the upcoming academic year.
Access Simplified: Advancing Michigan Medicine’s Security with a Single Password
Michigan Medicine has transitioned to a single 15-character passphrase to replace multiple passwords. The new passphrase is easier to remember and eliminates the need for annual password resets. The transition was designed to be seamless and the project team worked well together to make it happen.
Salesforce Org merge yields benefits
In 2019, leadership from the Salesforce Recruitment Org, which included several schools, approached the ITS Salesforce Center of Excellence (SFCOE) and Student Life Technology Solutions (SLTS) to discuss merging the Salesforce Recruitment Org with Student Life’s Student Org. Conversations took place at both the leadership and technical levels, leading to the conclusion that merging the two Salesforce orgs… Read More »
Wolverine Crater opens for research
Our lunar base at Wolverine Crater was completed on April 1, 2024. This state-of-the art facility is the home of the Michigan Information Technology to Enable Networking in Space (MITTENS) team that deployed MUniverse, the first academic WiFi network in space, for our students, faculty, and staff to take remote learning and working to a whole new level.
Meet the Newest Advisor at the Newnan Academic Advising Center: Maizey
The Newnan Academic Advising Center in LSA is utilizing Maizey to provide increased access to advising services for students.
How to Create Amazing AI Images Using DALL-E 3 in U-M GPT
All U-M students, faculty, and staff have been provided with no-cost access to OpenAI’s DALL-E 3, a fantastic text-to-image generating tool.