Week 6 Tech Showcase - Lynda.com

Lynda.com

Lynda.com is a website where you have access to a plethora of online courses that can be taken any time, and at your own pace. The courses provided by lynda.com spans many different topics, and is really useful for learning any topic.

While lynda.com requires that you have a membership with them to access their course materials, anyone with a NYC Public Library Card can register for free. This includes the Manhattan College community which can register for a free NYC Public Library Card.

Additional Resources:
Applying for a New York Public Library Card
Accessing Lynda.com with a New York Public Library Card

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Gift Card Scam

A common phishing scam is to target associates or subordinates.  The initial message is a short question, intending for a quick reply.

Are you on campus?

Eventually each respondent is requested to purchase an online gift card.

Earlier this year, a higher education point of view news report of this was published. It reports on multiple accounts of superiors being impersonated.  It is humorous while also showcasing the premise of this scam, which is that those in power could abuse their power and that subordinates are pressured to gain favor.

Imagination, Inquiry and Innovation Institute (I-4)

Manhattan College and the Maxine Greene Institute will co-sponsor the fifth annual: Imagination, Inquiry and Innovation Institute (I-4). The theme of the 2019 event is: "Look Again: The Art of Multiple Perspectives."

This is an opportunity for presenter to share innovative work in a broad range of fields: fine and performing arts, media and communication specialists, humanities, education, sciences, technology, engineering, medicine, health care, and business.

IT Services Department Training Team:  Alberto DeAngelis and Anita McCarthy will be presenting a poster session on Digital Accessibility.

The event will be held in Kelly Commons, 5th floor

From 9:00am-4:30pm on Saturday, March 30, 2019.

Week 5 Tech Showcase - Google Jamboard

Google Jamboard

Jamboard is a new collaborative tool by Google that promotes wireless collaboration. It utilizes a 55” touchscreen that allows students on campus to collaborate with classmates.  It can be used with mobile devices to supplement collaboration with features such as Google Drive. Jamboard allows people across the world to collaborate using either another Jamboard or the Jamboard app downloaded on their mobile devices. A Jamboard can be found in O'Malley Library Room 401. Supplemental Instruction sessions are now held using Jamboards by the Center for Academic Success.

Additional Resources for more information and instructions:

• What can I do with a Jamboard?
• Jamboard Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Please take this brief Jamboard Survey to let us know what you think about the Google Jamboard:

Phishing quiz

It is Spring Break! It is Friday! But that's meaningless to the phishing criminals around the world. Another day, another phish.

Google and Jigsaw have developed a phishing quiz, which everyone should take. Only eight emails are posed and you have to determine if they are legitimate or not. Go, go, go!

Week 4 Tech Showcase -Mail Merges Made Easy Using formMule

formMule

formMule  is a free addon for Google Sheets that allows you to easily send mail merges. It utilizes tags which gathers data such as email lists and names and uses that to send a personalized or tagged emails.

It is a powerful tool that provides you with the ability to:

• use auto-insert merge tags with the click of a button, making template-creation a breeze!
• use up to 10 different email templates based on specified send conditions.
• create unique case numbers on form submit for use in keying follow-ups
• grab and send form response edit URLs, and formulas copied down on form submit
• use custom spreadsheet functions RANGETOTABLE and RANGETOVERTICALTABLE which make it possible to merge tables of multiple, matching records into email bodies.

Another powerful application of formMule is to mail merge Google Form responses.


Please watch this video for additional help getting started with formMule:

For more information on formMule and how detailed instructions on how to use it, please visit this Knowledge Base Article on Mail Merging using formMule.

Please take this brief formMule for Mail Merges Survey to let us know what you think about formMule.

If you have additional questions about how to use formMule for mail merges please contact IT Services:
ITS@manhattan.edu or TEL: 718-862-7973

Horan Hall - Brief Network Outage 3/18 at 1:30pm

Physical Plant will be conducting a generator test in Horan Hall Monday, March 18th at approximately 1:30pm. 

There will be two brief outages, one while switching to generator power, the other while switching back to main power.

This will not affect the rest of campus.

If you have any questions, please contact ITS at its@manhattan.edu or at extension x-7973. We apologize for this inconvenience.