CTS Blog

Last spring, CTS worked with our Campus Technology Advisory Board to survey the campus on their satisfaction with the services we provide to the campus.  The results of that survey indicated that the campus wi-fi needs to be more reliable and easier to use. Since then, a re-design of wi-fi has become one of our highest priorities.

On May 17, the Elluminate Live online synchronous collaboration tool was upgraded to Blackboard Collaborate.  Blackboard purchased the company along with a competing product called Wimba in 2010.  Blackboard used the best of both products to create Collaborate and is their future direction for online conferencing.

We've been seeing a few phishing scams that have made it past Gmail's spam and phishing filters lately.  Please do not reply to any email asking for your username, password, date of birth, social security number, credit card numbers or other sensitive data.  More than likely it is an attempt to steal your identity, otherwise known as a phishing scam.

If a phishing scam makes it into your inbox, report it to Gmail.  While looking at the message, click the down arrow button in the upper right of the message.  That will review a menu of options. Click the "Report Phishing" option.

We’re often asked about Office apps on the iOS and Android mobile operating systems. While an official Microsoft Office app does exist for most mobile systems, it requires an active Office 365 subscription. For those users who don’t have that subscription (probably you, if you’re reading this), there are several great alternatives.