Great news! The Office of Information Technology and Faculty Technology Council are excited to announce that SMU has licensed Overleaf Professional, now available to all students, faculty, and staff. Overleaf is a powerful tool designed to enhance your scholarly research, writing, and publishing workflows, and it’s here to support your academic and research endeavors. Continue reading Overleaf Editor Simplifies Writing LaTeX
Author: Jason Warner
Associate CIO, Academic Technology Services
Using Generative AI Meeting Summary Technologies at SMU: Some Do’s and Don’ts
As part of OIT’s continuous efforts to enhance our community’s virtual meeting experiences, we are excited to announce the recent activation of Zoom’s AI Companion tool at SMU, a tool that offers meeting hosts the ability to generate an AI-generated meeting summary based on the transcript of any meeting scheduled with SMU’s Zoom. This advanced tool is designed to help hosts generate AI-authored summaries of virtual meetings, ensuring that important discussions and decisions are accurately documented and easily accessible. However, OIT is witnessing an increasing use of personal, non-institutional AI summary technologies; we want to remind our community that it is essential that, while at work, we must all adhere to safe practices that respect all participants’ privacy. Here are some key do’s and don’ts to keep in mind. Continue reading Using Generative AI Meeting Summary Technologies at SMU: Some Do’s and Don’ts
Changes to Turnitin AI Detection Tool at SMU
As we constantly adapt to the changes in educational technologies, we have an important update regarding our use of the Turnitin anti-plagiarism tool. Since last year, SMU has been participating in a beta trial of Turnitin’s AI-based anti-plagiarism detection tool. However, as of December 31, 2023, SMU’s temporary license will expire for this specific function of Turnitin due to its extremely limited success and negative track-record. Continue reading Changes to Turnitin AI Detection Tool at SMU
Championing ‘3X3X3 Digital Accessibility’: SMU Academic Tech Leaders’ EDUCAUSE Focus
In higher education, where all of us benefit from a dizzying array of always new and changing technologies, two leaders from Southern Methodist University (SMU) are working to encourage all of us to, at the very least, use tools we already have available to advance the cause of digital accessibility. At this year’s international EDUCAUSE conference, held in Chicago, Associate CIO for Academic Technology Jason Warner and Senior Academic Technology Services Director and Online Education Manager Jennifer Culver took the stage to call our community to action on this pivotal issue in their session: “3x3x3 for Digital Technology Accessibility.” Continue reading Championing ‘3X3X3 Digital Accessibility’: SMU Academic Tech Leaders’ EDUCAUSE Focus
Your Voice Can Shape SMU’s Technology Future
Calling all SMU students!
As part of our commitment to providing students with the best technology experiences at SMU, the CIO Student Advisory Board is conducting an SMU Student Tech Survey for Fall 2023, and we’d love to hear from you.
Why participate?
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