Information Technology Services

by Curt Price

Cascade is the website content management system that SIUE has been using since 2013.

The move to Cascade from our previous system, Luminis, was a huge upgrade in terms of features, functionality, & stability.

If you are an end user who has access to Cascade, you can obviously update your department web pages using Cascade, but did you also know...

• On the Cascade dashboard, end users can customize the data on that page by adding or removing widgets using the "Add Widget" butt...

by Curt Price

We all use PDF's at work and at home. But besides opening a pdf in Reader or Acrobat to read a pdf, or to save/print a word doc as a PDF, most people aren't Acrobat acrobats and aren't sure how to do other things.

To make things somewhat easier in terms of working with a pdf file, the website https://www.pdftool.org has a number of free tools that will allow you to do some very useful things. Such as Encrypting PDF's to protect secure documents, Decrypting PDF's, optimzing (...

by Curt Price

SIUE currently provides access to Adobe Creative Cloud applications to all faculty and staff members. (for instructions on how to install Adobe Creative Cloud apps, please see here: https://www.siue.edu/its/fac_staff/adobe-creative-cloud.shtml)

For students enrolled in a course that requires the use of Adobe Creative Cloud, ITS is providing home use licenses. Please follow the instructions here:  https://www.siue.edu/its/labsclassrooms/vlab/creative-cloud.shtml to enabl...

by IDLT

On May 8, ITS updated Blackboard to Ultra Base Navigation . The upgrade affects only the Blackboard landing page. No changes have been made to existing course shells or tools used by faculty and students.

All users logging into Blackboard will see the Institution Page, containing resources for faculty and students, important updates, and information about SIUE’s learning technologies. Courses are accessible from the Courses module in the navigation menu.

Additional information...