Service Excellence
We hosted our Meet the Team event on December 11, our theme was “Systems Through Time.” We hosted games and activity stations to share the past, present and future of Systems with VPFO staff! Mario recorded a quick walk-through of the event.
Systems Through Time Poster – Design Credit Selina McGinnis
Going Live
Updates to Gustavson BCOM, MBA, and MGB Apex applications were completed in November and development team is currently working on the International Programs module. These modules provide academic advising support for business students.
The IDAM team performed a Sailpoint IdentityIQ upgrade in November. The IdentityIQ application provides the basis for our identity governance and administration controls at UVic. These controls provide account-lifecycle onboarding and role-management capability for all staff, faculty, students, researchers, alumni, and affiliates in our community. These capabilities ensure that our user profiles gain and lose the correct set of roles to allow access to only those UVic applications that our users are allowed to access.
The DEVS front end team worked together with UC+M to successfully complete transition to HTTPS for uvic.ca. This upgrade ensures our web content is delivered over secure encrypted channel and more information can be found in a separate blog post.
The Enhanced Planning Tools project team celebrated their successful fall release (PC0734) with a colourful Piñata from Nancy Wright. This project delivered data load improvements and bug fixes.
EPT Piñata – Photo Credit Vincent Connor
The PMO and Development Services team collaborated to provide an upgrade to the Systems project information system (PROMIS). With the upgrade in place, project managers are able to upload their project tasks directly into PROMIS and perform detailed reporting on the status of the project. Several tutorials on the new functionality were provided following the go-live and video tutorials are coming soon!
Around Campus
Media Services webcast the Fall Convocation ceremonies on November 14 and 15, 2017. On-demand videos were posted immediately after the ceremony and multi-bitrate videos were posted the next day.
University Systems provided technical support and audio visual equipment for the UVic sponsored Victoria 150 Forum in November. All feedback obtained so far has been extremely positive regarding our services.
Our staff enjoyed an informative data centre tour from our Data Centre Services and Research Computing Services teams as part of our Lunch and Learn series.
Data Centre Group Photo – Photo Credit Sara Harding
In other news today… UVic News. UVic Communications + Marketing (UC+M) has released a new public hub for campus news. UVic News is a new website that features stories about researchers and their discoveries, student life and learning, and other campus happenings, such as Vikes sports. Moreover, the site publishes news releases, intended to share UVic’s stories with other news media organizations. The new site, that’s built in UVic’s central web content management system, Cascade, is the result of a collaboration between UC+M and University Systems Development Services. News stories are written, curated and published by UC+M staff in the News Management System (NMS), developed by Systems web developers. Stories are syndicated out from the NMS to other uvic.ca sites, including UVic News.
Media Services webcast Climate change: legal risk and opportunities for professionals, presented by Deborah Carlson, West Coast Environmental Law for the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions on November 22, 2017.
Getting Festive
The Project Management Office and General Office held a fun Secret Santa gift exchange. Who knew everyone liked tea so much?!
General Office and PMO staff with Secret Santa gifts – primarily tea and tea accessories!