For Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Scheduled Maintenance
Systems Maintenance - Thu, Oct 1
| by Paul Dicovitsky
Middfiles will be unavailable during the upgrade.
Read more about impacted services.
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For Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Service Outages
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.
Learn more.For Alumni, For Faculty, For Staff, For Students
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.
Read full details.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 Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Scheduled Maintenance, Service Improvements
Weekly Web Updates - August 10, 2020
| by Adam Franco and Ian McBride
WordPress change announcement: In the coming week we will change to use encrypted HTTPS for all browsing rather than letting sites be browsed under both HTTPS and unencrypted HTTP connections. This change will improve security for all users and is a prerequisite for an improved single-sign-on process.
All URLs will be automatically redirected to HTTPS version and the impact on the vast majority of sites should should be minimal. That said, with over 5,000 sites in the system there are likely cases where some browsers will block the inclusion of some content has been hard-coded to load using an HTTP URL. In these cases, the resolution is to update the embedded content to use https:// URLs instead of http:// URLs. Because of the scale of content in this system it is not possible for us to exhaustively audit all sites and pages. Users can test their own sites by navigating to the site and changing the address in their browser’s URL bar from … to … Please report any issues found or questions .For MiddPoints, For Faculty, For Staff, For Students
Skill Building with LinkedIn Learning
| by Cynthia "Pij" Slater
There’s never been a better time to explore LinkedIn Learning’s offerings and add some new skills to your work, school, or personal “toolkit.”
Read on for some timely course suggestions.For Alumni, For MiddPoints, For Faculty, For Staff, For Students
Zoom Security Update
| by Chris Norris
Zoom has just released a new software update which adds a Security option to the Zoom meeting controls bar of the in-meeting experience.
Read full details to learn how to conduct more secure online meetings.For MiddPoints, For Faculty, For Staff, For Students, Scheduled Maintenance
Middlebury Wireless Certificate Change on Thursday, 4/2/20
| by Jamie Carroll and Paul Dicovitsky
Tomorrow morning, Thursday, April 2, Middlebury ITS will update security certificates used on our campus Wi-Fi networks.
Read full details to learn how this will impact your wireless connectivity on campus.For Alumni, For Faculty, For Staff, For Students
ITS COVID-19 Response Update
| by Vijay Menta
Free/Reduced Cost Internet Access & Resources
With so many in our greater College community now working and studying from off-campus locations, we’d like to share information about free or reduced-cost Internet and WiFi options, along with some related resources.
Review the full details.