They’re among the most insidious of scams — when someone claims to be from tech support and offers to help. Learn how to keep these bad actors at bay.
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Faculty: Engage your students with Poll Everywhere
Present polls, knowledge checks, and other activities to engage and assess students using Poll Everywhere, a web and SMS text-messaging student response system.
UW-IT chooses new AVP to lead critical Infrastructure division
A former Fortune 500 executive with decades of experience in IT operations, cloud platforms, data and visualization technologies has been selected as UW-IT’s new Associate Vice President for the Infrastructure division and Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
Self-sustaining rates for UW-IT services to increase in FY 2024
In response to financial impacts caused by deferred IT maintenance and refresh projects following global pandemic and supply chain disruptions, UW-IT will be increasing rates for several IT services starting Oct. 1.
Rev up your classes with Jupyter Notebook
UW faculty, do your classes rely on heavy computing use? If you’re not already using our JupyterHub service, find out what we can do for you now!
Is your UW Google Shared Drive pending deletion? Act before 8/29 to save content
Check your Shared Drive. If you see “PENDING DELETE,” review the content to see if you need to download it and save it elsewhere.
Stay informed about network problems or report them
UW-IT’s Service Status webpage quickly lets you know if there are any eOutages or network problems affecting any or all three campuses — and lets you report any incidents.
Connect to UW network resources from off campus with Husky OnNet
Need to access files on the UW network from home? Use a UW secure virtual private network (VPN), like the free Husky OnNet for current students, faculty and staff. Off-campus access to UW resources on the UW network through remote desktop or a file-sharing application require a VPN.
Protect yourself from summer scams
Learn how to recognize fraudulent emails, text and calls that flourish during the summer and attempt to get you to send or receive money advances with promises of easy jobs, tuition discounts or other rewards. These approaches by cybercriminals are not new, but they are growing increasingly sophisticated. So, learn what you can do to protect yourself.
Get free access to Linkedin Learning
Thanks to new funding from the Student Technology Fee, students, faculty and staff can now access up to 16,000 Linkedin Learning courses, from cloud architecture to data visualization and graphic design.