Student Alias Email Address Change

• March 31st, 2021
• in Software News

Currently, students have unadvertised alias @ua.edu accounts that direct to @crimson.ua.edu. As a part of the student email migration May 7-9, OIT will be removing alias @ua.edu email addresses for students. Students that use their @ua.edu alias email addresses for any accounts, memberships, email lists, etc. should change from @ua.edu to @crimson.ua.edu. This change is designed to simplify the mail environment for students and IT administrators, and also to allow the coexistence of student and employee email domains within the UA Microsoft O365 tenant.

Latest Version of NVivo Now Available

• March 29th, 2021
• in Software News

The latest version of NVivo is now available for UA students, faculty and staff. Previously, NVivo released versions with numbers, the latest version (sans numbers) is now available. NVivo 10 and NVivo 11 are also still available. License keys for each version are available on the OIT software catalog.

OIT To Apply Online Archiving for O365 Mailboxes

• March 24th, 2021
• in Software News

Microsoft O365 provides online archive space for faculty and staff mailboxes. Sunday, April 11, OIT will apply the Online Archive feature to all UA faculty and staff O365 mailboxes.

With the Online Archive feature, UA faculty and staff can move files they wish to archive to the Online Archive mailbox from within their Outlook application or Outlook on the web. Below is a screenshot of how the Online Archive folder will appear for UA faculty and staff O365 mailboxes.  Learn archiving, and other Outlook best practices, on the OIT website.

Microsoft Teams Workshops

• March 19th, 2021
• in Software News

Microsoft Teams is OIT’s favorite communication and collaboration app. Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place. Microsoft Training professionals will be offering three upcoming virtual workshops for UA students, faculty and staff.

Microsoft Teams 101
March 26

Microsoft Teams Organization and Settings
April 1

Adding Files in Microsoft Teams
April 8

Learn more about each of these workshops on the UA Events Calendar.

Review Calendar Permissions

• March 5th, 2021
• in Software News

When student email accounts are migrated from Google to Microsoft O365, UA students, faculty and staff calendars will be hosted in the same environment. The default calendar setting is to share free/busy information only; however, faculty and staff may choose to make their calendars completely private. Before student email is migrated into O365, OIT encourages UA faculty and staff to review their current calendar permissions. Instructions to do so are available on the OIT website.

Learn Teams – Within Teams

• March 2nd, 2021
• in Software News

Join the Microsoft Resources Team – a Team within the Microsoft Teams app where UA Microsoft partners share tutorials, videos and helpful content. All UA students, faculty and staff are welcome to join. This Team allows users to learn more about the Microsoft Teams environment through experience.

Join the Team today! If you’re new to Teams, learn more about it on the OIT website.

Live Transcription Available in Zoom

• February 23rd, 2021
• in Software News

Live transcription is now available for UA Zoom accounts! Transcription can be enabled by the host, and any participants can view the captioning as needed. The robot transcription service enables speech to text transcription in Zoom meetings and webinars. Live transcription only supports English.

AI/automatic speech recommendation captions are not accurate enough to serve as an accommodation – for that, human/manual captioning is necessary –  but this service can enhance accessibility for all users.

To enable live transcription, sign into the Zoom web portal, and visit Settings. Select the Meeting tab, scroll to the Advanced settings and select the checkbox to enable transcription.

Minecraft Education Edition Available Through O365

• February 19th, 2021
• in Software News

Minecraft Education Edition is available for all UA students, faculty and staff through Microsoft O365. To access Minecraft Education Edition, visit the Minecraft website. Login with your myBamausername@ua.edu or Crimson email address and myBama password.

Minecraft can be used to create virtual hangout spaces – an ideal way to create and cultivate community among students while physically distant. Below are examples of how the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Religious Studies replicated their Presidents Hall student lounge in Minecraft. Get started building your space today!

Microsoft Teams Virtual Workshops

• February 18th, 2021
• in Software News

Microsoft Teams is OIT’s favorite communication and collaboration app. Microsoft Teams is a digital hub that brings conversations, content, assignments, and apps together in one place. Microsoft Training professionals will be offering four upcoming virtual workshops for UA students, faculty and staff.

Microsoft Teams 101 – an overview of Teams basics

March 3 @ 11am
March 4 @1pm

Microsoft Teams Meetings – how to schedule a meeting, and an overview of meeting tools and settings

March 10 @ 11am
March 11 @ 1pm

Learn more about the workshops, and register, on the UA Events Calendar.

O365 Display Name Change

• February 10th, 2021
• in Software News

Friday, Feb. 19 OIT will change users’ Microsoft O365 display names to appear as Firstname Lastname. Currently O365 display names show as Lastname, Firstname.

This change will adopt the preferred names set in the UA Common Directory, and will overwrite some previously set directory values if individuals have customized the display name of an email account.

The change may take time to refresh on all O365 apps (Outlook, Teams). OIT is performing this change to make the O365 environment more user friendly, and consistent with other campus services.