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Posted by Kristen Treglia on 16th January 2009

Don’t be left out in the cold,

claim your ACCESSIT ID before it’s too late!

The University is moving towards a single sign on for all vital services. This means that you will log into the My.Fordham University Portal to access Blackboard, OASIS, Email, Banner, MyFiles and more. No more having to remember different usernames and/or passwords for each account! To make sure that you will have continued access to the vital services that you need, it is mandatory for every Fordham faculty, staff, and student to claim their AccessIT ID.

How do I claim my AccessIT ID?

Go to: http://my.fordham.edu and under “First Time Users” you will need to click on “Click Here to claim your AccessIT ID”

What do I do if I have trouble claiming my AccessIT ID?

Call the Help Desk at 718 817 3999 for assistance.

So, what are you waiting for?
Claim your AccessIT ID today!!!

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Blackboard outage 2008-02-10

Posted by Jay Savage on 11th February 2008

The blackboard system was unavailable for an extended period of time yesterday, February 10th, while emergency maintenance was performed to correct a server failure. The failure occurred just after 12:00pm and service was fully restored at approximately 6:30pm.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

As a reminder, we encourage all users to email blackboard@fordham.edu immediately if they experience any problems with the Blackboard Learning System.

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No Blackboard Phone Support on 12/27

Posted by Jay Savage on 18th December 2007

Due to the planned telephone outage at Rose Hill, there will be no Blackboard telephone support on 12/27.

Please email blackboard@fordham.edu for assistance during this time.

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FTC at Rose Hill scheduled Closings Update

Posted by deleon79 on 5th November 2007

The Faculty Technology Center at Rose Hill will be closed on the following days.

December 6, 2007
December 11-13, 2007.

We apologize for any inconvenience.

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Blackboard upgrade

Posted by Jay Savage on 31st July 2007

Blackboard will be offline for 24 hours starting

Wednesday, August 15th at 12:00am

The scheduled downtime will allow us to upgrade to the new 7.3 release of Blackboard, which includes a number of enhancements to the Forums, as well as improving performance in general..

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Faculty Technology Center at Rose Hill Closings

Posted by deleon79 on 12th June 2007

The Faculty Technology Center at Rose Hill will be closed on the following dates and times.

June 15th 2007 10:00am – 2:30pm.

July 2nd 2007 9:00am – 12:00pm.

Sorry for any inconvenience this might cause you.

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Introducing the ITAC Podast!

Posted by Jay Savage on 29th May 2007

ITAC now has a podcast! You can subscribe to the feed here.

Our inaugural podcast is a recording of one of the talks from our Annual Technology Conference on May 22nd:

Keeping it Together: Bringing Information and the Internet to You With Syndication, Social Bookmarks, and Other Web 2.0 Tricks.


Download

If You’ve already seen Karl Fisch’s “Did You Know?/Shift Happens,” feel free to fast forward through the fist few minutes.

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Pulse/Survey Support Maintenance: 4/16

Posted by Jay Savage on 13th April 2007

All Survey Support/Pulse surveys will be unavailable on Monday, 4/16, from 5pm until 6pm, CDT while our vendor performs system upgrades.

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Turnitin.com maintenace: 3/24, 1:00pm-5:00pm

Posted by Jay Savage on 22nd March 2007

From the Turnitin.com adminstrators:

Turnitin will be unavailable Saturday, March 24th, 2007 from 10:00AM
PDT to 2:00PM PDT for database maintenance. Thank you for your
support. If you have any questions please feel free to contact our
help desk.

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Don’t forget Daylight Savings Time!

Posted by Jay Savage on 8th March 2007

Daylight Savings Time starts 3 weeks earlier than usual in the U.S. this year. If your computer is not updated to observe the new rules before March 11th, you may have trouble connecting to networks, visiting web sites, and sending and receiving email.

Directions for updating various operating systems are available at http://www.fordham.edu/dst.

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