Data stewards, unit security contacts, and administrative system contacts will be receiving an email from the Digital Security and Trust Access Management team with information and instructions on how to verify their area’s Financials, Human Resources, Medical Center Financials, and Student Information System (SIS) users for the coming year. Your attention regarding this mandated annual activity is very important. The email will be sent during the week of May 8, 2023 , with a requested deadline to confirm area users by Friday, June 30, 2023 .
The OTDI Data Governance team is excited to announce the next four drafting sessions in our definitions initiative .
Check the full blog post for registration information to attend a drafting session from Friday, April 14 through Wednesday, May 31. Specific terms will be discussed during each session. Approved and finalized definitions can be found on the Approved Institutional Definitions webpage.
Feel free to share this information with team members who communicate about student data and may have interest in this project.
Instructional designers and researchers across the university are exploring the possibilities of immersive media for higher education. Dean Hensley from OAA and Jeremy Patterson from ACCAD have teamed up to develop a new photogrammetry app and create high-quality 3D models that can be used in courses at Ohio State.
Workday will be unavailable due to planned monthly maintenance on Saturday, April 15, from 2 a.m. to 9 a.m.
Kronos and external dormakaba time clocks will be available, but employees using Workday to clock in and out should enter their hours once Workday is available again.
Health System Supply Chain users should note important information contained in the full NewsLink post.
In a world increasingly reliant on technology for everything from work to personal use, protecting digital content such as photos, videos, and documents is vital. However, losing access to your data is more common than you think! The majority of us will be affected by data loss at least once in...
In order to meet a business need for entering future dated Period Activity Pay involving grants, Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) recently resolved an issue related to a hard stop that occurred when end users entered expired grants on future dated Period Activity Pay.
The removal of the hard stop for expired grants will enable end users to create Period Activity Pay for dates through which they anticipate the grant will be extended. In cases where grants are not extended by the first payroll or through the tuition payment date for the Period Activity Pay, the default organization assignment worktags for the period where the grant is expired will be used.
The next round of software updates is now available to install for OTDI-managed workstations via Software Center (for Windows PC) or Ohio State Application Self Service (for Mac).
The IT Service Desk remotely deployed these updates on Tuesday, March 21 which will require you to restart your machine and/or close applications. You can make these updates at your convenience prior to then via your appropriate software update application to avoid interruptions that could occur from an automatic update.
The "Equity Balances by Balancing/Carry Forward Worktags - Summary" report has been created as a simplified version of the "Equity Balances by Balancing/Carry Forward Worktags" report. It is intended as a high-level analysis for department leaders to run and it provides available balances by unique worktags combinations. The report provides basic information about beginning balances, transfers, revenue, expenses, and encumbrances with a remaining balance available. The report also has very few prompts which cater to a simplified user experience.
The report will be migrated to production during the week of March 20.
For many, one of the highlights of the month is March Madness, a.k.a. the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. OTDI Cable Television services is doing its part to help you keep track of games that are being broadcast simultaneously. Our cable service is offering a quad-screen view of March Madness programming throughout the tournament.
