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Friday, April 5, 2013
The EDC and ITS are pleased to report that on May 10th, Carleton will retire WebCT and embrace cuLearn as our sole Learning Management System. While WebCT has served Carleton well in the past, the product is at the end of its life cycle and will no longer be updated. After an extensive review... More
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Website accessibility falls within the information and communications standard of AODA. Section 14 states: “Designated public sector organizations and large organizations shall make their internet websites and web content conform with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0, initially at Level A and increasing to Level AA.” All new... More
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
If you have received an email with the subject 'Notification: Re-validate your Account now to Be Able to Send and Receive Message' which appears to be from Carleton University, do not click on the link and do not reply to it. This is a phishing email and should be deleted immediately. If you have... More
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
If you have received an email with the subject 'Email Notification For Staff/Student/Faculty' from @student.life.edu, do not click on the link and do not reply to it. This is a phishing email and should be deleted immediately. If you have already clicked on the link or responded to this email, please change your password immediately. How... More
The issue has now been resolved. Phone lines are back up. If you do experience any further issues, please contact the ITS Service Desk. Phone lines are currently down in the Co-Op and Health Services offices. Voice Services is... More
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Performing basic computer safety maintenance is your first step to preventing nasty viruses from infecting your computer. 3 things you can do to protect your computer: Install anti-virus and anti-spyware software. At Carleton, all computer labs and staff/faculty workstations have Symantec installed. Symantec is available to staff and faculty... More
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Current Students now have a new and improved website. The new Carleton Current Students site runs off WordPress 3.5.1 and uses Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets (SASS) as a CSS pre-processor. When coding the site, it was important for it to be fully accessible and responsive. When designing the site, the Office of the Associate Vice-President... More
Monday, March 11, 2013
ITS manages over 4, 200 workstations on campus, the majority of which have the Windows 7 image installed. Approximately 700 workstations are still running on Windows XP. In 2014, Microsoft will be ending their support for XP. ITS requires all workstations be migrated well before support is discontinued. The target date to have all... More
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Portable Storage Devices (PSDs) are small, portable devices capable of storing and transferring data. They include USB/Flash drives, smart phones, iPods, and portable hard drives. The portability of data in the digital age is convenient, however, these small media types are often not protected appropriately. If the PSD is lost or left unattended,... More
Monday, March 4, 2013
Carleton’s new speech-enabled service is now available to all members of the Carleton community. To call someone at Carleton, you can now dial their extension (as usual), or you can dial 1234, say the name of the person, department or service you wish to reach and you’ll be connected right away. Dial 1234 and... More
Monday, February 11, 2013
Carleton University is committed to meeting our obligations under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). For all of our websites, this means conforming to Section 14 of the Integrated Accessibility Standards Regulation. As such, Carleton websites and web content must conform to accessibility standards by January 2014. If... More
On February 20th, Web Services invites current CCMS (Carleton Content Management Service) clients and anyone interested in the web at Carleton to join the Carleton web community for a sneak peek of the newest CCMS template. Web Services will also be providing information on the upcoming web accessibility requirements. Date: Wednesday, February 20... More
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