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  • Pronouns to Sync Across Carmen and Zoom

    Randi Honkonen | November 29, 2023
    Beginning this spring, students, staff and faculty may notice a change in their displayed pronouns in CarmenCanvas and CarmenZoom. These two tools will begin pulling pronoun information from my.osu.edu, the Ohio State app, Buckeye Link (for students), and Workday (for faculty and staff). Any pronouns that had been designated natively in Carmen and Zoom will remain if you have not selected pronoun...
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  • Retiree Group Term Life Insurance Payment Options

    Richard Hunter | November 20, 2023
    Retiree Group Term Life Insurance coverage has a new billing process for the first billing quarter of 2024. The new process will begin Friday, Dec. 1, and provides a more streamlined process with additional payment options. As a reminder, retirees elect coverage in Workday following a September implementation.Ohio State’s Accounts Receivable now sends invoices and collects&nbs...

  • Email Management: Archiving Messages to Optimize Storage

    Beth Varcho | November 17, 2023
    As Ohio State works to decrease its email storage footprint, OTDI is publishing a series of articles that will help you take steps to reduce the number of emails you are storing. The first article covered simple ways to clear out emails that do not need to be saved. This article explains archiving and our next post will cover adding retention tags to folders or messages. The key to eff...

  • How the Ohio State App Enhances the Student Experience

    Anne Furia | November 16, 2023
    At a place as widespread as The Ohio State University, staying organized and informed is crucial for success. For students navigating life and classes at Ohio State, the Ohio State mobile app has become an important tool, evolving over the past 11 years into a daily essential for thousands of undergraduates. An impressive 92% of undergraduate students across all Ohio State campuses rely on t...
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  • Enhancement to Customer Deposits

    Richard Hunter | November 16, 2023
    Customer deposit transactions created and submitted on or after Friday, December 1 will have a transaction ID generated called "Customer Deposit ID." The Customer Deposit ID will be like other transaction IDs within Workday and will uniquely identify the deposit. The Customer Deposit ID will be preceded by "CD" and it will be followed by 8 numeric digits. The new Customer Deposit ID will be displ...

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