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Insightful Discussions During AI Community of Practice Session – OIT News

On Thursday, August 1, 2024, the University of Texas at Arlington’s first Artificial Intelligence Community of Practice had a great turnout with more than 150 faculty, staff and students in attendance.
As AI becomes more widely used across campus, the goal of the session was to provide insights into its functionality and practical applications.
The following topics were covered:
Guest speakers included:
The next AI Community of Practice is on Thursday, September 5, 2024. Additional details will...

Enhancing Support: Introducing Our New Service Desk – OIT News

On Monday, August 12, 2024, the Office of Information Technology is enhancing its Help Desk to an IT Service Desk.
As OIT strives to enhance support at UTA, it is implementing a more specialized approach to IT service management.
Here is what you can expect from the Service Desk once it launches:
A pop-up Service Desk location will be available at the Maverick Activities Center for students from Monday, August 12, 2024, to Friday, August 30, 2024, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
OIT will continue to offe...

Discover the Local Weather at UTA – OIT News

The UTA Planetarium and OIT Application Development Team have launched a new website that displays local weather conditions on the UTA campus.
“This was just another project that we accomplished with the great assistance of the OIT Team,” Levent Gurdemir, the UTA Planetarium director, said.
The site located at https://weather.uta.edu receives real-time information from UTA Observatory’s own weather station to provide current information. This weather station was integrated into UTA Observatory l...

2024 Digital Divas at UTA – Promoting the Presence of Women in STEM – OIT News

UTA is hosting an all-girls, high school computer programming competition on Saturday, February 10.
More than 500 girls across Texas, including 100 virtual attendees, will compete in five divisions based on their experience levels:

This event is not open to the public, but you can find more information about the day’s schedule on the Digital Divas 2024 website.

UTA is hosting an all-girls, high school computer programming competition on Saturday, February 10.

More than 500 girls across Texas...

New Sustainability Dashboard Highlights Energy Usage – OIT News

The Office of Sustainability is introducing a new dashboard that shows The University of Texas at Arlington’s environmental impact.
Detailed information can be found on UTA’s energy usage in the following areas on the dashboard:
Chief sustainability officer, Meghna Tare, said transparency is a key reason the dashboard was created. “We are working on having a climate action plan for UTA where we are setting specific goals and targets for ourselves,” Tare said, “and when you embark on that, it is...

Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams: Update on New Microsoft Lists – OIT News

This update brings several new features to users, including the ability to add ratings to any list, drag and paste images directly into a list, see who is collaborating with you in real-time, switch views by clicking tabs, and more.
Before the Update: Lists lacked features such as visible real-time collaborators, easy access to views via tabs, and applied filters at the top of a list. Note: Some features mentioned in the May 2023 blog post “Microsoft Lists: Easier, Better, Faster, Stronger” on t...

Microsoft Teams: Users Will Exclusively Control Their Voice and Face Data Exports – OIT News

Microsoft is making an important update designed to enhance privacy and security.
Before this rollout, admins could download voice and face data for their users who opted to enroll their voice and/or face on the Recognition tab in Microsoft Teams.

With this rollout, Microsoft is shifting this capability to users to better protect user data. This change will ensure that users have more control over their own voice and face data.

This change reduces the risk of unauthorized access or sharing, as...

Microsoft Teams: New Show/Hide Toggle Setting for Discover Feed – OIT News

Microsoft Teams users will now have the flexibility to show or hide the Discover Feed.

This new toggle can be found in the general settings section.

This feature is on by default and all Teams users on Desktop and Mac can use it if desired.

Microsoft Teams users will now have the flexibility to show or hide the Discover Feed.

This new toggle can be found in the general settings section.

This feature is on by default and all Teams users on Desktop and Mac can use it if desired.

Teams Meeting Recordings are Now Saved in Organizer’s Microsoft OneDrive – OIT News

Microsoft Teams meeting recordings will now be saved by default to the meeting organizer’s Microsoft OneDrive account.
Currently, meeting recordings are saved to the OneDrive account for the person who initiates the recording.
This update will ensure recordings are governed by the organizer’s meeting setup and policies, like other meeting artifacts (meeting invitation, transcript, etc).
If the organizer does not have OneDrive provisioned, the OneDrive account is out of capacity, or the recording...

Content Camera on New Teams – OIT News

Content camera support will be available on the new Teams app experience for Windows and MacOS.
Content camera enables remote attendees to get a clear view of physical objects like whiteboards, printed documents, books and more that are in a meeting room.
Content camera intelligently detects, crops and frames the in-room object and shares its content with remote meeting participants. Even when a presenter moves in front of it, for example, the whiteboard, remote participants can see the content...

Microsoft Teams Who bot to be Retired – OIT News

Microsoft Teams is retiring the current version of the Who bot as it works to improve the feature and provide a better user experience.
The Who bot was designed to help users find information about anyone in their organization. The functionality will transition to Microsoft Copilot in the future.
To prepare for this change, users may consider updating training and documentation.

Microsoft Teams is retiring the current version of the Who bot as it works to improve the feature and provide a bette...