Category Archives: Projects & Services
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Accessibility in Action: Making Biology 171 Accessible For All
Biology 171, a high-enrollment course with hundreds of digital instructional materials, presented an opportunity to improve accessibility at scale. Through a cross-unit collaboration, contributors reviewed and remediated 598 course materials, improving Canvas pages, documents, presentations, and other resources students rely on throughout the semester.
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Get Ready: SSL Certificate Lifespans Are Decreasing. Here’s What You Need to Know.
Beginning in March 2026, new global standards from the Certificate Authority/Browser Forum will gradually reduce the lifespan of TLS/SSL digital certificates, critical tools for authenticating websites and securing data communication. By March 2029, certificates will last only 47 days – down from today’s 398.
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A New Era for Campus Digital Signage
A new sign-in experience is coming to your UMICH account
Campus Leads the Way with Cellular Expansion: Introducing U-M Net Cellular
A Fresh Look & Feel for U-M AI Services — November 2025 updates
Michigan Medicine introduces two-year email retention policy to strengthen data security
Register for an upcoming Make a Maizey workshop!
Make a Maizey with the ITS Emerging Technology team. These dynamic, in-person workshops will give participants an introduction to U-M’s AI services and guide them through building a new Maizey project, an AI tool that leverages U-M GPT to analyze your own, custom data sources. Maizeys can be used to streamline workflows, analyze data, enhance Canvas courses, and more. U-M… Read More »
Michigan Medicine’s game-changing hospital data move
A small team at Michigan Medicine successfully moved a hospital’s entire digital core, including real-time care coordination and decades of patient records, to the North Campus Data Center without disruption. This move provided Michigan Medicine with direct control, building a more reliable digital infrastructure, and unlocked over $600k in cost savings annually.
Gemini and NotebookLM Now Available to the U-M Community
MDining’s new point-of-sale system pays off
Meet OnboardingA2 Maizey: Helping new staff get their bearings at U-M with the help of U-M AI Tools
OpenAI’s o1 and o3-mini reasoning models now available through U-M GPT
Information and Technology Services is pleased to announce the integration of two new models into U-M GPT, the o1 and the o3-mini from OpenAI, which users can now access through the U-M GPT homepage dropdown menu. This update marks the first inclusion of ‘reasoning models’ to U-M’s AI services, which excel in the ability to perform tasks that require multi-step… Read More »
