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Smart classrooms just got smarter thanks to an innovative tool created by the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) team. DoIT maintains over 120 smart classrooms and labs at NIU. When technical support is needed, an instructor can pick up the phone in the classroom to connect with a member of the DoIT support staff. For some...
NIU students, faculty and staff recently worked together to ensure NIU students with visual disabilities would be able to independently do laundry in the residence hall laundry rooms. It was a campus-wide effort to be proud of, say all involved. To do laundry in the residence halls, students swipe their OneCards and then choose a...
Offices and hallways lined with filing cabinets are a distant memory for Crystal Garvey, NIU Senior Associate Director of Admissions Systems and Processing. “It really has revolutionized what we do; we were drowning in paper,” Garvey said. “We process over 100,000 documents each year. We had lots of paper, lots of filing cabinets. It was...
What do a mobile app to efficiently deploy National Guard troops following a natural disaster, a data visualization tool to map opioid hotspots and a game to get children exercising and eating healthy have in common? They are all projects imagined and prototyped by students participating in the 2017 NIU Huskie Hack, which took place...
Technology applications related to health and wellness are evolving quickly, and NIU faculty, students and alumni are at the forefront of important breakthroughs in the use of technology to promote personal and community wellness, and manage healthcare. Take, for example, associate professors Jennifer Gray and Jinsook Kim of NIU’s School of Health Studies. In 2015,...
As part of its commitment to providing their customers with best-in-class security, Qualtrics — the online survey tool provider for NIU — is currently transitioning their systems to HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure). HTTPS is the start of all Web addresses. Qualtrics will be implementing this security transition on Monday, June 12. It will...
Sharpen your skills, jump into a new career path or simply learn something new using the NIU campus license for Lynda. Lynda is a leading online learning company, purchased by LinkedIn in 2015, offering over 10,000 expert-led online courses and video tutorials on a variety of subjects in business, creative services and technology. This online...
On Friday, May 26, NIU’s Department of Information Technology (DoIT) will delete any remaining Google apps, Gmail and data as it completes the final move toward supporting a single, university-wide communication and collaboration system, Microsoft Office 365. NIU completed moving students to Microsoft Office 365 in August 2016, at which point Google Apps and Gmail...
On Friday, May 26, NIU’s Department of Information Technology (DoIT) will delete any remaining Google apps, Gmail and data as it completes the final move toward supporting a single, university-wide communication and collaboration system, Microsoft Office 365. NIU completed moving students to Microsoft Office 365 in August 2016, at which point Google Apps and Gmail...
NIU Google Apps/Gmail access will be discontinued Monday, Jan. 30.  Existing data will be deleted shortly thereafter. NIU completed moving students to Microsoft Office 365 last August. Office 365 is NIU’s email and document collaboration solution and should be used in place of existing university-provided Google Apps/Gmail accounts. To maintain an niu.edu email address for...
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