Month: October 2010

Cyber Security

National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), conducted every October since 2001, is a national public awareness campaign to encourage everyone to protect their computers and our nation’s critical cyber infrastructure. Understanding and properly using social media is the focal point for the ECU campus this year. Stay tuned this month for security tips and additional resources. For more information, please visit http://www.ecu.edu/itsecurity/securityaware2010.cfm.

Travelling light!

With restrictions in travel allowances and jammed packed schedules webinars and online conferences make it easy to attend and stay current on educational trends.  ITCS is hosting EDUCAUSE 2010 Online Annual Conference today through Friday in Austin 308.  Some of the topics that will be covered are Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, E-Texbooks and  Collaboration.

On any given week you can find other such live or on demand events which may interest you, Sonic Foundry offers some good webinars on using Mediasite sign up for the upcoming event “Lecture Capture 101: everything you wanted to know about lecture capture but were afraid to ask!” Read more

Respondus – Easily Import Tests into Blackboard

“Respondus is a powerful tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Blackboard, Moodle, and other eLearning systems. Exams can be created offline using a familiar Windows environment, or moved from one eLearning system to another. Whether you are a veteran of online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus will save you hours on each project.”
(Source: http://www.respondus.com/products/respondus.shtml)

ECU SUPPORT PAGE – http://www.ecu.edu/cs-itcs/Software/respondus.cfm

ECU now has a site license, for more information please contact our office.