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Telephone Changes
 This
fall we are providing a separate telephone number to each student
living on-campus. This will permit each student to have his/her own
voice mail. This number can follow the on-campus students if they
move down the hall or to a different residence hall. In order to do
this, we are adding 10,000 new phone numbers. The new prefix will
be 496.
Office
numbers will remain 294-xxxx. But, you'll need to dial five digits
to reach them. Sorry!!! You'll be dialing 6-xxxx for the student numbers
and 4-xxxx for the offices. We'll keep you posted on the timing of
this change.
Training
Classes
this month include a Web publishing class that shows users how to publish
ordinary documents, Excel, Word, Word Perfect & PowerPoint, to the web.
For Macintosh users interested in a good web-publishing tool, we are
having another Macromedia DreamWeaver class. The class follows same
concepts and ideas as previous Basic Web Page construction classes;
we just use a different tool. DreamWeaver is not on the Macintosh server.
Each department would need to purchase it. It is available from the
on-campus Barnes and Noble's bookstore.
An
example of an instructor-led course offered by ElementK
starting July 24th is: Create Brochures, Flyers, and More Using Word..
Students will learn how to incorporate graphics into a coupon flyer;
create a simple newsletter; and design a tri-fold brochure. E-mail
Jacob Spradlin at ucs_jws for
more information about ElementK registration.
Wiring
The
six halls that are being used this summer for SHSU on-campus students
are all wired for the Internet now.
The project
for all housing will be complete by Fall 2000. The Newton Gresham
Library is now connected via a gigabit link.
UNX1
 All
passwords were changed last week on UNX1 to the first six digits of
your social security number. You must change your password upon your
first login. The criteria for creating a password is now much more
stringent than in the past. We recommend you take two short words
and combine them with numbers. It must be at least 6 digits long.
It is
critical that you safeguard the privacy of this password to help prevent
hacker attacks on our system.
Web Course in a Box Transition to Blackboard
WCB has now merged with Blackboard. This software for the new system
will be loaded this month---hopefully. We'll be having training sessions
starting in July. The old WCB staff is currently completing the programming
to make the conversion of old classes to the new system as painless
as possible.
Word Perfect
We
are once again sending out WordPerfect 9. This will require that you
re-install the Corel Office Suite. There were problems with the templates
in our previous installation. A couple of professors and office staff
have tested this for us.
We are
frequently soliciting testers for the various packages. If you would
be willing to assist us in testing new installations of software,
we would appreciate a call. This way, you'll have a chance
| Reminder:
Intersted in taking a course not listed on our calendar? Send
e-mail to the helpdesk
and we will set up individual training just for you! |
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Robert
Koog is now a Programmer/ Analyst I. Robert
has his B.S. in Mathematics from Sam Houston
and is completing his Master's degree in Computing
Science.
