January 2018 OET Newsletter

OET Moves

Office of Educational Technology staff in 133 Willard Hall Education Building (WHL) moved to 103 WHL on January 19. Joe Naccarato, our applications programmer who was housed in Pearson, also moved to 103.  Joel Pease, our systems administrator, will continue to work from Pearson Hall.

OneDrive for Business

OneDrive for Business is now available to faculty, staff, and students through UD’s Office 365 (O365) subscription. The cloud-based OneDrive offers 5TB to store and share your files with other UD account holders who use Office 365. OneDrive also features native app editing, live concurrent editing, and AutoSave with versioning.

You can create a local copy of the contents of your OneDrive on your computer’s hard drive in a folder you choose.  You also can specify folders on your hard drive to synchronize with OneDrive.

Before you use OneDrive’s features, you will need to configure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).  Multi-Factor Authentication is similar to the two-factor authentication (2FA) that you now use to access UD resources; however, it is a separate system with a different range of options.   If you have questions about OneDrive or configuring MFA, contact OET.

Exchange Clients to Migrate to Exchange Online

If you use Exchange for email, you will have your Exchange account migrated to Exchange Online within the next few months.  We will notify CEHD Exchange users when their accounts will move. This migration is required to enhance the security of your Exchange account and the security of University and other information entrusted to your care.

The best protection for your accounts and your data is to require additional authentication beyond your account’s password. The University’s two-factor authentication (2FA) protects accounts and information by requiring you to log in through the UD Central Authentication System (CAS). That protection is not available with IT’s current Exchange implementation.

The best way to add security for your UD Exchange account is to migrate it to Exchange Online and to use Microsoft Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to protect your account and information. To prepare for the migration, we recommend that you configure MFA now. You can use either Google Authenticator (for Android or Apple iOS) or Microsoft Authenticator (for Android or Apple iOS) to configure MFA.

Once your account has been migrated and you have set up all your devices to access Exchange Online, you will be able to use Outlook, calendaring, and other Exchange apps as you always have.

Save the Date: Apple Accessibility Event

We invite you to join us at the Center for Disabilities Studies, 461 Wyoming Road, on Friday, April 13, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. for an Apple accessibility event highlighting useful features in iOS and MacOS for teaching and learning. The event, hosted by the Office of Disability Support Services, Center for Disabilities Studies, Education Resource Center, and the Office of Educational Technology will feature an Apple keynote and demonstration stations staffed by Apple representatives and UD staff.

CEHD Phishing Stats for December

December’s phish from IT featured a web content privacy violation that contained several red flags highlighted on IT’s “Take a Bite Out of Phish” website.

• Total number who clicked on the phish: 689
• Total number of people who clicked on the phish from CEHD: 54

Please remain vigilant when reading email and don’t click on any links in suspicious email messages. Report suspicious email messages to reportaphish@udel.edu or to OET.