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  • Mediasite Confirmed as Ohio State’s Enterprise Media Platform

    Randi Honkonen | March 26, 2024
    Among the tools that met the needs of Ohio State students, faculty and staff, Mediasite was the most cost-effective solution. Mediasite has been in use at Ohio State since 2014, and user feedback shows that it covers the basics of what our users want in a media tool—but there is always room for improvement.

  • Important Request to Verify Area System Users for 2024

    Richard Hunter | March 25, 2024
    One of the methods used by the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) to safeguard Ohio State’s restricted data (e.g. student, alumni, faculty and staff information, patient medical records, research data, etc.) is the annual review of user access for the university Workday Financials, Human Resources, Medical Center Financials, and Student Information Systems.The Digital Security and...

  • Email Management: Use Retention Tags to Manage Storage Effectively 

    Beth Varcho | March 25, 2024
    OTDI has been running a series of articles encouraging users to do some deep cleaning —spring cleaning—to optimize storage and decrease our overall storage footprint. Retention tags are an effective way to control storage, ensuring you keep university messages as long as required, then discarding them when they are no longer needed. Emails you send and receive regarding university business ...

  • Streamlining Meeting Space Technology for More Productive Meetings

    Beth Varcho | March 25, 2024
    OTDI’s Learning and Collaborative Environments team has kicked off the process of streamlining OSU meeting room technology. While it will take years to standardize equipment across campus, LCE has created a standard Conference Room technology package to start that process. While this is a long-term goal, having standard equipment in rooms offers many benefits:Consistent meeting room technolo...

  • Service Center Transaction Routing Change

    Richard Hunter | March 22, 2024
    On Friday, March 29, an update will be made to transaction routing for Service Centers. Previously, for individuals assigned both the Rep and Lead security roles (Business Operations Service Center or Grants Operations Service Center) the transaction did not route for an additional approval. Moving forward, this feature will be turned off. If an individual has both security roles (Rep and Lead) t...

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