We are making extensive upgrades to the CMS and web infrastructure in order to meet increasing demands on our public web presence. For this reason, webcontent\buildsite will be unavailable from Tuesday evening (December 2nd) through Wednesday morning (December 3rd). Please close your client by 5:00 pm this afternoon. Any changes made after 5:00 pm will be lost.

Webcontent\buildsite should be available at 7:30 am tomorrow morning.

If you have any questions, please contact Paige Herman.

In order to enhance the group study experience with technology, ITS is offering the use of TeamSpot, a collaborative software intended for group assignments, in three locations on campus. Faculty and students can find TeamSpot in the two new collaborative rooms in the Belk lab, as well as in the Library's 24 Hour Room.

With TeamSpot you can:

- Develop group projects such as papers, presentations and assignments on a common screen by editing from their personal laptops in both Windows and Mac OS

- Easily move files between computers by dragging and dropping

- Copy and paste URLs, images or text across computers

- Easily discover and share online materials and data

- Create an archive of information shared during the group session

- Work on parallel tasks and then quickly integrate the results

All of this is done without needing to switch video cables or email files to each other.

If you would like to learn more about how to use Team Spot for your group assignments, please contact Shauna'h Fuegen, Student Computing Services Coordinator (shfuegen@davidson.edu).

Spring courses are now loaded onto Blackboard. As a courtesy to students, we will make all fall semester 2008 courses "unavailable" on January 08, 2009. The courses will still be visible to you. If you have any questions or want additional training on Blackboard, please do not hesitate to contact an ITS Instructional Technologist.

We also remind you to let us know about your spring semester 2009 classroom technology needs. We will work on fulfilling those needs over the winter break. To see the services and software we currently offer in the computer labs and classrooms, please visit http://www3.davidson.edu/cms/x23259.xml. From this site you may make additional requests. Software requested for fall semester 2008 will continue to be deployed for the spring semester unless otherwise requested.

The Help Desk will be closed from noon until 2:00 PM on Thursday, December 11.

If there is a campus emergency affecting campus servers or IT services during this time, please dial (704) 894-2900 and select option 4.

If you have a non-emergency request or problem, please email the Help Desk or leave a voicemail by dialing (704) 894-2900 and selecting option 1 or 2. We will respond to your messages when we return.

Happy Holidays to all from the ITS staff.

The Help Desk is closed from 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday, December 23 until 8:00 a.m. on Monday, January 5.

If there is a campus emergency affecting campus servers or IT services, please dial (704) 894-2900 and select option 4.

If you have a non-emergency request or problem, please email the Help Desk or leave a voicemail by dialing (704) 894-2900 and selecting option 1 or 2. Messages will be responded to once the Help Desk reopens.

For answers to common computing questions, visit ITS Answers Online at http://help.davidson.edu

ResNet is closed for Winter break from Thursday, December 11 to Monday, January 12.

If there is a campus emergency affecting campus servers or IT services, please dial (704) 894-2900 and select option 4.

If you have a non-emergency request or problem, please email ResNet or leave a voicemail by dialing (704) 894-2900 and selecting option 2 and then option 1. Messages are being checked periodically by ITS staff.

For answers to common computing questions, visit ITS Answers Online at http://help.davidson.edu