IT@UC Annual Report
Highlights of 2019. What's next in 2020.
The Canvas Learning Management System delivers an easy-to-use, mobile friendly online learning experience.
The Office of the Provost’s Center for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning (CET&L) leaned on IT@UC’s expertise in academic technologies and support, project management, and vendor contract negotiations during the successful spring semester 2019 Canvas pilot.
- 60 faculty, 94 courses, and more than 3,000 students.
- 93% of the faculty and 78% of students indicated they were either “highly satisfied or satisfied” with UC’s Canvas experience.
What's Next
The university will transition to Canvas to support the transformational teaching and learning needs of faculty and students. IT@UC will work alongside CET&L to support faculty in reimagining courses and practices during the Blackboard-to-Canvas transition and beyond.
- Thousands of courses.
- Hundreds of integrations with other learning technologies.
- In-person trainings, workshops, and one-on-one consultations.
- Successful student learning outcomes.
The university's latest Microsoft licensing agreement includes faculty and staff access to Microsoft's suite of cloud-based tools.
IT@UC partnered with IT administrators across the university to successfully transfer email to the cloud. The massive email migration marked major milestone in the overall Office 365 Collaboration Tools Project, which lays the technical foundation for a state-of-the-art UC Intranet platform.
- Nearly 15,000 faculty and staff email accounts containing more than 30 terabytes of data.
Office 365 also provides seamless access to personal storage with OneDrive; file sharing, collaboration, and storage with Teams; and, the technical platform to help centralize internal communication and automate paper-based business processes with an all-new SharePoint.
What's Next
- The OneDrive Implementation Project will replace Box at UC as the university's centralized, secure, and compliant cloud storage solution.
- IT@UC will lay the technical foundation for a UC Intranet. Led by the Office of the Provost, the UC Intranet will provide efficient access to policies, procedures, templates, and other university resources within a modern internal communications portal that engages faculty and staff.