Broadband Resources for Students during COVID-19 Emergency

ITS has compiled a list of free or low-cost broadband resources being made available to students during the COVID-19 emergency.

COVID-19 Broadband Resources for Students

Mobile carriers and ISPs are offering help to students during school closures and during a time when classroom work is being delivered remotely or online.

Gmail and Google Calendar get a whole lot better on iOS

The new Gmail app for iOS

When you get the next Gmail iOS app update, you’ll notice some exciting changes: The biggest overhaul of the app in nearly four years. It's the Gmail you know and love, with a fresh new look, sleeker transitions and some highly-requested features. It's a lot faster, too.

With the new app, getting things done on the go is a lot easier — whether you’re trying to find a message your colleague sent you last month, or trying to get through your work inbox on a Monday morning.

Starting today, you’ll be able to:

• Undo Send, just like you do on the desktop, to prevent embarrassing email mistakes
• Search faster with instant results and spelling suggestions (like when you type “flighht,” but you really meant “flight”)
• Swipe to archive or delete, to quickly clear items out of your inbox

Google Calendar: Updated for you

Based on your feedback (thank you!), the Calendar app on iOS has some shiny, new features:

• Month view and week in landscape view, so you have even more ways to see your schedule at a glance.
• Spotlight Search support, so you can search for events, Reminders and Goals in Apple’s Spotlight Search and find what you’re looking for faster.
• Alternate calendars. If you often look up dates in a non-Gregorian calendar — like Lunar, Islamic, or Hindu — you can now add that calendar to easily see those dates alongside your current calendar.

We'll continue to improve both Gmail and Calendar for iOS so you can be more productive on the go.

Reposted from:  https://blog.google/products/gmail/gmail-and-google-calendar-get-a-whole-lot-better-on-ios/

Student-created Mobile App Release on the Horizon

Be on the lookout for the release of Manhattan College's first student-created mobile app!

Currently named Glance, the app was developed by ITS student interns to meet the needs of mobile users who always carry around smartphones and are looking for information for just-in-time needs. The app attempts to centralize access to Manhattan College services, events, and information into a single useful and convenient app. The target audience is students, but employees will find the app useful as well.

To be available initially for IOS devices, followed shortly by Android devices, the app will offer the following features:

"At a Glance" Search, the flagship feature of the app.  The search, currently across campus services and the employee directory, uses a search product developed with mobile in mind, where search needs to be instantaneous and tolerant of typos.  Search queries can be parts of relevant words, eg, tasks, departments, names, etc. As-you-type search predictions then contain deep-links to actionable items, insuring that the user can get directly to what they need in the shortest steps or clicks.

Real-time activity feeds from various campus sources, including

• Announcements + News
• Featured Events
• Twitter (various accounts)
• Emergency (e2Campus)
• ITS Notices and Outages

25Live Events Calendar(s)

Student newspaper (Manhattan College Quadrangle)

A digital version of one's Jasper Card will be available via Apple's native Wallet / Passbook app. while users with Android devices can view the Jasper Card passbook pass via an alternate viewing mechanism. Beacon and bluetooth technology will notify mobile card users when they are in proximity to a location where the mobile version of the card is accepted.

Future releases of the app will incorporate maps and campus locations, profile and class information, computer availability in the labs, dining menus and more.

The app compliments the college's new website and intranet portal.

ITS's Web and Collaboration group provides technical direction, oversight and other developmental assistance for this project.  Marketing and Communication provides branding oversight and has compiled the campus services database used for the search.

More on the availability of the app will be forthcoming.