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Is anyone else’s EMU Email wonky right now?

Maybe it’s just me, but my EmuMail (aka Eaglemail) is working a little weird for me right now. It says I’ve got 23 unread messages in my inbox (I see none) and that I have 311 draft messages (waa???) Anyone else getting anything odd like that?

As far as I can tell the [...]

Are college students shifting to the Mac?

This is a bit of a tangent I suppose, though it might be interesting here, especially for the “IT” inclined. According to this AP article that is about downgrading Microsoft stock, Apple is taking a heavy bite out of the traditional dominance of Windows. Here’s the relevant quote for here, with the line about [...]

EMU rolls out new web site– thoughts?

I don’t know when this happened because I don’t often have a reason to visit EMU’s homepage, but it looks like they’ve rolled out a new site. My 2 minute poke around impressions are positive. I don’t like the front page Flash animation for all kinds of different reasons, but I do like that [...]

my.emich: Does it work for you? And which browser?

In the spirit of doing a little usability trouble-shooting for DoIT! today: how is my.emich working for you?

This morning, I commented that my.emich was still not working for me, which is something that I chalked up to the system update still not being completed. Then I got an email from one of the [...]

I’m sure glad I don’t use my.emich for anything…

This is because my.emich has essentially been off/out of service since Saturday or so. I suspect for most people, this is not a “deal breaker,” because you can still access email via mail.emich.edu, and many (most?) people teaching who use some kind of technology to support their classes don’t use my.emich.edu But if you do, the solutions seem pretty bad, as you can see after the “continued” part.

Two other things I’ll point out to DoIT! or anyone else:

When you are teaching a 7.5 week term, some sort of “mission critical” system being off from the weekend through Wednesday is a lot. As I tell my students again and again, the spring/summer terms are not half as long, they are twice as fast, which means losing three or four days in the summer term is like losing a six or eight during the fall or winter terms.

This is the sort of reason why I rely as much as possible on systems not hosted at EMU, like emuonline or my own WordPress installations. This is not to say that everyone could/should teach with WordPress, but it is why I’m all for “outsourcing” systems. emuonline has been pretty rock-solid, IMO, and while Zimbra has had a few problems, it’s a ton more reliable for email, calendars, etc. than the old EMU hosted email ever was.

Continue reading I’m sure glad I don’t use my.emich for anything…

EMU changes name to SunGard University

No, not really. But when I go to “my.emich,” I see I am being welcomed to “My SunGard University.” I guess whatever latest update to the system isn’t quite working yet….

What’s up with EMU email?

I can’t get my EmuMail to work, and it’s been that way all morning. What the heck? Is Pray-Harrold construction to blame?

Of course, one solution is to get a Mac….

This just in from Ward Mullens about a computer virus going around campus:

The EMU Division of Information Technology is currently working to resolve a computer issue affecting faculty and staff computers. The problem is being caused by a corrupted anti-virus file that makes it appear that your computer is infected with a virus. [...]

sitedad’s thoughts in the iPad

Because Donna asked over a week ago, I thought I’d pass along here a couple of links from stevendkrause.com where I blogged about the iPad:

The iPad, the first 30 or so hours Anybody who says that the iPad is the end of user-generated content or the internet does not know what they are [...]

“Seton Hill to Offer iPads to Full-Time Students”

This came to me via a mailing list I’m on: from the CHE blog, “Seton Hill to Offer iPads to Full-Time Students.” Here are the opening paragraphs:

Seton Hill University, a liberal-arts institution in Pennsylvania with more than 2,100 students, announced a program on Tuesday that offers an iPad to every full-time student.

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