The Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) will be hosting its next Informational Microsoft Office Hours on Tuesday, June 11 from 2:30-3:30 p.m. There is no cost to attend this session, but you must register to attend. This session is designed for faculty and staff within the university; instruction provided does not apply to staff using the medical center version of Office 365.
This session is structured around use cases or unique scenarios submitted by YOU. Hearing your user stories and scenarios enables us to tailor instructional content to your unique needs. We will demonstrate specific features to spark new ideas on how you might use Microsoft tools to enhance your processes and workflows.
Ohio State’s Data Governance team launched a new initiative in 2022 to standardize institutional definitions, partnering with colleagues across the university.
Our latest definition for "Learner" is ready for community review. The group is open to hearing from all faculty and staff from the university and Wexner Medical Center during the review period. Those interested in reviewing these definitions are asked to fill out this Qualtrics survey by Wednesday, May 8 .
At 9 p.m. on Monday, May 6, 2024, OTDI will be removing certain authentication options to log in to Microsoft 365. This will not affect any BuckeyePass registered options. Users who have registered via Microsoft 365 to authenticate with Text, Phone, Microsoft Authenticator, etc may experience a...
Ohio State is hosting AWS Columbus Learning Day for faculty and staff on Thursday, May 9. This event is a dynamic one-day, in-person event designed to empower attendees with a wealth of knowledge and practical skills related to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Here’s what you can expect:
As of April 20, Autumn 2024 courses are available for instructors to create in CarmenCanvas. More information about creating a course can be found in the Teaching and...
Between spring and summer semesters, the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) and various tool vendors will make updates and improvements to Ohio State’s teaching and learning toolset. Explore new features in CarmenCanvas, learn about new proctoring solutions and get excited for improvements to existing tools.
The time has come to say goodbye to osuwireless. On Sunday, May 5 and Wednesday, May 8, both at 10 p.m., osuwireless will be removed from select locations on Ohio State campuses in Columbus and Mansfield. The legacy Wi-Fi will be removed by building throughout the summer,...
Please refer to the downloadable Unit Year-end Checklist for important year end timeline information and tasks that need to be performed. Please make every effort to close out as many old items as possible to help avoid system issues for the year-end roll forward process. As a reminder, purchase orders can close only when the status is issued and there are no:
in-progress or draft receipts. in-progress or draft "Return to Supplier" documents. related supplier invoices with draft, incomplete, or in-progress status. related ASNs in draft or in-progress.
You can view the status of these items on the Business Document Lines of the purchase order. The focus should be on documents tied to old POs with remaining balances that should be closed and not rolled forward. These can be identified using the "Find Purchase Order Details - OSU" report and checking the "Purchase Orders with Remaining Obligations/Encumbrances Only" box. Please work with the appropriate parties to take action on outstanding items by Friday, May 31, 2024 and send lists of POs that are ready to be closed to your Service Center Representative to close. Please also copy the Controller’s Office ( ctl-fdmrequests@osu.edu ) for awareness.
Effective Friday, April 19 , as part of the Campus Position Control Project, Cost Center Managers will now receive costing allocations through their inboxes for New Position Management Positions and all Job Management Hires (who are not paid from Period Activity Pay). This is a change, as historically costing would route to managers to initiate.
Additionally, Cost Center Managers can initiate costing allocations as a standalone process for their own assigned cost centers with no approval required. If a Cost Center Manager initiates cost allocations for cost centers that are not their own, it will route to the appropriate Cost Center Manager to approve.
This new routing should provide enhanced efficiency for both managers and Cost Center Managers.
The Tableau report "Delegation History - OSU" has been updated with the enhancements described below.
A new "Stopped Date and Time" field has been added to the report. When the delegation is stopped for any reason before it's expected end date, the stopped date and time will now display in a new column. A new filter "For All Business Processes" has been added to the report. Additionally, the naming of two fields has been changed. "Allowed Action" has been changed to "Start on My Behalf." "Specified Business Processes" has been changed to "Approval on Behalf of Specified Business Processes." A clean-up has been done on the "Delegation Details" and "All Delegation History" to no longer display rows denoting when a worker is on leave and returns from leave. This reduces some unnecessary noise in the data.
