Information Technology Services

by Curt Price

ITS has been providing online resources that allow working from home to be much easier.

ITS had many of these tools in place long before the pandemic hit. So the foundation for working from home was already in place.

Thank goodness.

Can you imagine the headaches if SIUE employees didn't have Teams Calling, Virtual Lab/Remote Software Access, Blackboard, Websafe, Zoom licenses, Microsft Teams in place, the Office 365 Suite, the Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, etc, etc... at our disp...

by Curt Price

SIUE ESports (short for "Electronic Sports") officially began at SIUE in 2013, and in January of this year a brand new ESports Club & Gaming Arena opened in Bluff Hall.

The new Esports Arena is home to 12 high-end gaming computers, 2 TV’s to which students can attach their own systems, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 graphics cards and Intel Core i5-8400 processors. The games currently installed include: League of Legends, Overwatch, Counter-Strike Global Offensive, Hearthstone, ...

by Jennifer Albat

ITS has been informed by the vendor of a name change coming for TechSmith Relay. June 16 is the planned date for TechSmith Relay to become TechSmith Knowmia. The switch in name better represents the product and its features. There will no change in the user interface, and all current video links will remain the same. The most notable change will be in the logo, which will change from the blue “R” to a golden “K”. To learn more about TechSmith Relay (soo...

by Curt Price

During this period of social distancing and self-quarantine, people have been spending a lot more time at home.

Working from home... spending evenings at home... a lot.

Like a lot, a lot.

Zoom.us has been a popular way for people to see and communicate with friends and family who are also self-quarantined. But did you know that you can do a lot more on Zoom than just see and talk to people?

A fun way to pass the time is by playing games on Zoom.

Jackbox Games

Jackboxgames.co...

By: Niki Glick

You need to schedule a meeting with multiple people. Maybe you try to use the Outlook Scheduling Assistant to see when everyone is available, but depending on how many schedules you need to align and how busy everyone is, this task can be time-consuming and frustrating. A lot of us have used Doodle to accomplish this task, but unfortunately, it’s no longer free. Introducing FindTime, a free, easy to use, Outlook scheduling assistant tool. FindTime connects to your Outlook a...

By: Niki Glick

You need to schedule a meeting with multiple people. Maybe you try to use the Outlook Scheduling Assistant to see when everyone is available, but depending on how many schedules you need to align and how busy everyone is, this task can be time-consuming and frustrating. A lot of us have used Doodle to accomplish this task, but unfortunately, it’s no longer free. Introducing FindTime, a free, easy to use, Outlook scheduling assistant tool. FindTime connects to your Outlook a...

By Curt Price

Podcasting has taken off in recent years. It seems like everyone has at least 1 or 2 pocasts that they are listening to. And if you listen to podcasts, you probably have a podast app that you like. I mean, there are a lot of them out there that work just fine.

But if you are one of those folks who hasn't yet dove into the wonderful world of podcasts, then this article may be for you.

Podcasts are essentially just recorded audio files that are put online that you have the option ...

By Curt Price

There are a lot of screen capture utilities out there. Many of which are lacking in features and leave you feeling...meh.

But not ShareX.

It probably has too many features. But if you love choice, both in how to take a shot (like a scrolling capture or OCRing text) and what to do with it after (it supports 80 different destinations and plenty of annotation options), this is the capture utility you need for your Windows PC.

https://getsharex.com/

Have you ever wondered on that rare occassion, "Is Blackboard down?" Or "Is there an issue with Banner?" Or are you having WIFI/Network issues?

Well, before calling the helpful ITS Help Desk, maybe consider checking out the SIUE System Status page first.

status.siue.edu

This page was set up to inform users of the status of all of our University systems. You can see if a system is operating normally, if there is a partial or a major outage, as well as reference a list of past i...