Leslie Schichtel Buchanan

A new streaming media tool integrated with Blackboard will enable faculty and students to upload, publish, search, create, re-use and share video with registered class members directly from within the course management system. Read More

To ensure that Vanderbilt faculty and staff receive the best IT support possible, Vanderbilt IT wants to make the community aware of how to access the designated support teams for the university and Medical Center. Read More

Anyone who has ordered a certificate from the Vanderbilt IT Software Store or through Enterprise Public Key Infrastructure for use with an application or service will need to upgrade to ensure future communications remain secure. Read More

There's still time to take the VUIT Faculty and Staff Satisfaction Survey, the results of which will be used to further improve service and support. Read More

Vanderbilt’s OAK course management system is being migrated from Vanderbilt servers to Blackboard servers. The system will be unavailable Dec. 21-22, and access to some courses will be limited in December. Read More

Vanderbilt IT recently changed the system for billing and managing telephones and telephone-related services. Read More

Support of Clinical Workstations and a portion of the IT Help Desk transitioned to Dell in October. In the second phase of this transition, LAN Management Services (LMS) will move to Dell beginning February 2015. Read More

Last weekend, hackers launched a significant phishing attack against Vanderbilt email users. Read More

Vanderbilt’s McAfee VirusScan for Mac subscription is set to expire Dec. 31, 2014. Read More

Later this year, Vanderbilt’s localized version of Blackboard’s course management system, OAK, will move from on-campus Vanderbilt servers to off-campus Blackboard servers. Read More

As of Oct. 1, support of clinical workstations and a portion of the IT Help Desk have transitioned to Dell. Read More

Beginning Oct. 15 at 7 a.m., the Vanderbilt IT Network Security team will implement a change that imports a new certificate and will result in cost savings and improve support. Read More

Mac and Linux users should be on the lookout for any software updates sent in the coming days from Apple to address the Shellshock security bug. Read More

As a significant step in Vanderbilt IT’s efforts to improve OAK performance, only courses from fall 2013 onward will be available in OAK, effective Friday, Oct. 3. Read More

Vanderbilt IT, the Vanderbilt Institute for Digital Learning and Vanderbilt School of Medicine will host the 2014 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference’s Virtual Conference Sept. 30 through Oct. 2 at several locations across campus and the medical center. Read More

Vanderbilt plans to publish “soft records” for email servers Sept. 22 as part of the Sender Policy Framework. SPF empowers mail exchangers to differentiate between authorized Vanderbilt email servers and those merely posing as such. Read More

Hewlett-Packard has issued a recall on notebook computer and docking station AC power cords. Read More

VUIT and Blackboard employees are working to address performance issues with OAK exacerbated by heavy use at the semester's start, part of an overall effort to test and configure the application for optimal performance. Read More

Box, rolled out by Vanderbilt IT in April 2014, eases the process of collaboration and increases mobility by allowing users to share documents with one another and to access their documents from any device. Read More