The Division of Information Technology Computing Labs has traditionally offered students the use of computer hardware and software they might not otherwise have access to.  Students now have access to personal computers at home, in their dorm rooms, or traveling with them from class to class. 
Unfortunately, the software needed to complete their course work is [...]

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Last year for the first time, we made it so that everyone using the University’s Exchange email system could see all official holidays and special days in their Outlook calendar. That proved to be pretty popular, so we’re pleased to announce that we’ve just finished rolling out this Academic Year’s holidays and special dates for [...]

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The Division of Information Technology is conducting a trial to see how students perform when they use electronic textbooks instead of printed ones. Check out the blog for The eBooks Project to learn more.

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Everywhere we look, there’s news about the economic downturn. The tech industry, accustomed to being spared when the economy suffers, hasn’t been so lucky this time. TechCrunch has been tracking layoffs in technology companies and reports that since August 2008, 195,856 employees of companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Seagate, and Google have lost their jobs. This is sobering [...]

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How many times have you wondered when final exams begin? Or what day the twelfth day of class falls on? How about when the Christmas Holidays begin and end? This question seems to keep coming up year after year.
Last year, Information Technology developed a “holiday file” that made it simple for people to import all [...]

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Network and System Status Updates
We are currently experiencing problems with our email servers sending and receiving emails. An email account was compromised on Sunday via a phishing email asking for the individual’s username and password. Unfortunately, one person responded back with their username and password. This issue is a top priority for us [...]

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On a Friday afternoon in the middle of June, the underground fiber optic cable that connects UTPA to Region One Education Service Center (located just west of the Physical Plant building) was cut by a construction crew. This fiber is very important because it connects UTPA to Region One’s ESCONETT telecommunications network. With the fiber [...]

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Technology Corner sends a big hello and welcome to the Center for Learning, Teaching, & Technology’s new blog. It’s the place to go to learn about everything that’s going on in the world of online learning, classroom technology, and the Center itself. It’s a pretty nice-looking site, too. Hopefully there will be even more campus [...]

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Robert Jackson, our high performance computing guy, will be offering training on using the UTPA high-performance cluster on January 7-8, 2008 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM at ASB Room 2.128. for more information please see www.utpa.edu/it/hpcc.
The class will cover the following topics:

Starting up
Customizing your user environment
Finding and using applications
Building your own applications
Running applications and [...]

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A complaint we hear from time to time is that important UTPA dates don’t appear in our Microsoft Outlook calendars. When is the 12th Class Day? When will Commencement be? How about those UTPA holidays? To that end, we’ve created a little file that will load all the important UTPA holidays and other dates into [...]

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