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Weekly Web Updates - October 5, 2020
FAQs in Drupal 8 now can have a “NEW” or “UPDATED” badge which will remain in place for seven days after the last change to the FAQ.
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For Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Scheduled Maintenance
Systems Maintenance - Thu, Oct 1
| by Paul Dicovitsky
Middfiles will be unavailable during the upgrade.
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ISSUE - Networking on VT Campus
| by Paul Dicovitsky and Lisa Terrier
ITS is working closely with facilities to resolve matters as swiftly as possible and most services should be back up and stable at this time.
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SCAM Alert - SMS/TXT messages
| by Chris Norris
Beware SMS/TXT messages regarding “Parcel Sorting Center”, “Package deliveries”, “Amazon gifts”, etc.
Learn more about these known scams.For Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Scheduled Maintenance, Service Improvements
PaperCut Print Server Upgrade - Thursday, September 24
| by Paul Dicovitsky
Printing services will be offline for about 90 minutes during ITS’ 6:00-8:00 am (ET) maintenance window.
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Weekly Web Updates - September 21, 2020
| by Adam Franco and Ian McBride
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Weekly Web Updates - September 14, 2020
| by Ian McBride and Adam Franco
For Faculty, For Staff, For Students
Weekly Web Updates - September 7, 2020
| by Adam Franco and Ian McBride
We are happy to announce that the Course Hub has gained a new feature: profiles for users with the ability to record your name pronunciation in both audio and text. Further , this feature will present name pronunciation and preferred pronouns to instructors in the Course Hub’s class-rosters. Likewise, instructor name pronunciation will be shown to students on course-overview pages.
As previously announced, we have now switched WordPress ( and ) over to using encrypted https:// connections for all browsing.For Staff, Service Improvements
Weekly Web Updates - August 31, 2020
| by Ian McBride and Adam Franco
The will now display students’ Dean assignment in place of their old Commons assignment. This can be viewed in the rightmost column where Department is displayed for faculty and staff records, or on individual listings. The Dean assignment is only shown when using the Directory on campus, over the VPN, or if you log in to the Directory using the “Log In” link at the top right.
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Weekly Web Updates - August 24, 2020
| by Adam Franco and Ian McBride