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  • Learn to Responsibly Manage Your Digital Storage

    Beth Varcho | October 13, 2025
    Join us to explore the storage options available to faculty, staff, and students—OneDrive, Teams and more. These sessions are ONLY open to faculty and staff at the university; the Medical Center has different storage solutions so advice provided may not apply.
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  • Ally selected in LMS Accessibility Scanner RFP

    Learning Systems | October 13, 2025
    Following an evaluation during summer 2025, the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) awarded the bid to Anthology for an accessibility scanning tool to be integrated with within the CarmenCanvas learning management system (LMS) and other Canvas instances. A committee of Ohio State instructional designers, faculty, staff, and students recommending adoption of Anthology’s tool Al...

  • Enhanced Listening Experience in Lecture Halls

    Beth Varcho | October 9, 2025
    The summer months are critical for the Learning and Collaborative Environments (LCE) team to complete upgrades to classroom pool facilities and technology. One feature added this summer was a new assistive listening technology, Mobile Connect, implemented in eight lecture halls.

  • New Password Policy Enhances Security and Convenience

    Beth Varcho | October 9, 2025
    As part of Cybersecurity Month, the Office of Technology and Digital Innovation (OTDI) is announcing changes to passwords that will reduce the burden on our users while strengthening our overall security. Beginning Oct. 9, Ohio State users will no longer be required to change their university password every 180 days – your next password change prompt will be your last.
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  • Attend Securing the Mission: Building Awareness and Resilience in Higher Ed on Oct. 9

    Reg Jackson | October 7, 2025
    Seeing how our peers operate is a rare opportunity. While we all face similar cybersecurity challenges, we handle them in a variety of ways. Partnering with the Big Ten Academic Alliance for this year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month offers one of those opportunities in a virtual setting.The Big Ten has assembled a panel of Chief Information Security Officers to discuss their approach to our commo...
    October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month

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