Can you believe that we are only a few weeks away from the end of the 2023-2024 school year? Time is going by so fast. This has been a monumental academic year for the Michigan IT community. We have faced both unprecedented challenges and incredible technological advances. Throughout it all, I have been so impressed by how Michigan IT always puts our users first. We know our mission, and we live it every day.
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.
Information and Technology Services (ITS) and the Teaching and Technology Collaborative (TTC) have collaborated to launch a new series of free Generative AI (GenAI) Workshops as part of its growing catalog of generative artificial intelligence resources.
Anitra Wells is a desktop support specialist with ITS-Dearborn. She is proud of her customer service skills and genuinely enjoys helping people with their tech needs. In her free time, she enjoys playing cozy video games, diamond painting, and crocheting.
The leadership team from Student Accessibility and Accommodation Services (SAAS) approached Student Life Technology Solutions (SLTS) with the challenge of modernizing a primarily paper-based set of workflows and associated record-keeping.
The popular AI image generator DALL-E 3 and the newly updated GPT 4.0 Turbo available via UM-GPT at no cost.
There is a lot to consider when designing places where humans live and work. How will the space be used? Who’s using the space? What are budget considerations? It is painstaking and time consuming to develop all of those details into something usable. What if Generative AI (GenAI) could help? We already know that it can be used… Read More »
Greetings everyone, We have certainly had an exciting start to 2024. On New Year’s Day, I was fortunate enough to be in Pasadena, cheering our Wolverines on to victory at the Rose Bowl. I considered it one of the best games I had ever watched in my lifetime. At least until I found myself in Houston watching our… Read More »
Black History Month pays “tribute to the generations of African Americans who struggled with adversity to achieve full citizenship in American society.” The Black History Month 2024 theme, “African Americans and the Arts,” explores the key influence African Americans have had in the fields of “visual and performing arts, literature, fashion, folklore, language, film, music, architecture, culinary and… Read More »
Andy Holman is an experienced videographer whose work is geared towards supporting professors and their classes through media production. Andy and her team take innovative ideas and bring them to life! Outside of U-M, you can find her exploring Detroit and trying new food.
Don Winsor leads the EECS IT support team, and especially enjoys it when he and his team can help a researcher get past a difficult technical challenge. He leads his team with humility, and uses his listening skills to get to the heart of the matter.
On Tuesday, February 20, 2024, the University of Michigan will start using an updated Duo Universal Prompt screen for two-factor authentication. All Duo customers across the world, including U-M, are required to transition to the Universal Prompt, and Duo is ending support for the traditional version.
Joyce Y. Chai, professor of electrical engineering and computer science, College of Engineering, and colleagues have been seeking answers to complex questions using natural language processing and machine learning that may improve everyday life.
“Community is built through connections, friendships, and memories forged through experiences.” The 2023 Michigan IT Tech Showcase and Social event was a new and exciting gathering for the Michigan IT community. This in-person, networking event welcomed more than 270 technology professionals to the Michigan Union on November 30. Designed to cultivate a sense of curiosity, cooperation, and unity… Read More »
Thank you, Michigan IT, for the essential work you do everyday in support of this great institution. I wish you the best as we wrap up the Fall semester and prepare for the Winter semester.
The University of Michigan is launching its new Student Success Viewer, an early warning system that helps academic advisors identify at-risk students using Learning Management System (LMS) data from the Unizin Data Platform (UDP). It utilizes that data to present actionable intelligence to advisors about students’ current term grades, activity, and assignments. This is not the first system… Read More »
A new course evaluation process at the University of Michigan-Flint is boosting response rates and helping more students have their voices heard.
Costumes are powerful–they transport and immerse us into different eras. Behind the scenes at the School of Music, Theater and Dance (SMTD), Theresa Hartman works magic while managing University Productions’ (UProd) colossal wardrobe of more than 34,000 items. As costume stock manager since 2017, Theresa wields a secret weapon–and isn’t a magic wand. It’s a sophisticated database known… Read More »
ITS Teaching & Learning has launched a self-paced Canvas External Tools training site! The site raises awareness for the variety of external tools available to enhance U-M Canvas courses. Substituting live Zoom training, the Canvas External Tools Site offers access to workshop recordings/slides and help guides anytime, anywhere. Canvas External Tools Site features include: Instructors and staff are… Read More »
Gray shares stories of adventuring in Hong Kong, gaming with colleagues while abroad, and ways he’s advocated for mental health awareness while at HITS.