The OTDI team works regularly to enhance IT services at the university. One of the most recent enhancements includes moving to a new policy for Microsoft 365. This new policy will allow faculty, staff, and students to...
Many within the university community are still trying to adapt to the sharing and collaboration features in Microsoft 365. To help everyone to feel comfortable enough with these tools to fully take advantage of them, the university has been offering training sessions over the last few years to...
Beginning Aug. 1, how you manage or join Outlook distribution groups will be changing. To manage group membership of distribution groups you own or to join a group, you can do so by navigating to this portal which provides a list of groups you are a member of and own.
The Data Governance team is ready to conduct the next working group for the Student Domain institutional definitions. Part of this group’s efforts in helping to standardize institutional definitions involves facilitating the development of working groups, consisting of university and medical center subject matter experts and data stewards. Read on to see how you can get involved.
Coming in October 2023, Internal Service Providers (ISPs) will use a new process in Workday to invoice other internal departments or units at Ohio State. The Internal Order Billing (IOB) process replaces the need to create an Internal Service Delivery (ISD) to bill other internal departments and units for both the university and the Health System.
This functionality benefits end users, earnings units, and central Finance. It aligns the Internal Order Billing process with other standard procure-to-pay processes, improves transparency of internal order billings for end users, and streamlines and improves monthly close processes and reporting. See the full post to learn about go-live timing, what's changing, how affected parties should prepare, and where to find help resources.
The Spend Authorization Roll-forward Journal was processed to roll-forward spend authorization encumbrances for FY24. In your FY24 Financials, these pre encumbrances will post on the journal source titled "Spend Authorization Roll Forward" for any non-expensed spend authorizations as of the June cut off with remaining encumbrances.
This news item is being shared and cross-posted among multiple channels within the Identity Management, Buckeye Link, and Workday user communities.
In a collaborative effort to improve data synchronization across university systems, Ohio State is making the following changes to improve the consistency by which students, faculty and staff identify in university systems.
As of Thursday, June 29 , any changes made by students, faculty, and staff to personal information including legal sex, pronouns and preferred name will be synchronized across Identity Management (my.osu.edu), Buckeye Link for students (PeopleSoft), Workday for faculty and staff, and the Ohio State Mobile application. While other partner systems may also share such data, only personal information changes made through the four listed above will synch.
In addition to improved data synching, users will have an expanded list of pronoun options in the impacted systems from which to choose if they would like to designate pronouns.
The Data Governance team is ready to kick off the working group for Race and Ethnicity institutional definitions on Tuesday, July 11. Part of this group’s efforts in helping to standardize institutional definitions involves facilitating the development of working groups, consisting of university and medical center subject matter experts and data stewards. Read on to see how you can get involved.
The Asset Registration and Asset Transfer business processes have been updated to include a "To Do" step at the end of each process. This step will instruct the Cost Center Asset Tracking Specialist to complete the required Off-Campus Stewardship Form if the location on the business asset is "Remote Location." Per Ohio State policy, this form must be completed for all trackable assets taken off campus or assigned to an individual for off-campus use.
