Two weeks until students are required to use Duo Two-Factor Authentication for my.SMU

Ru Ferguson and John Rodgers have already won. You have one more chance to win too!

DuoOn Monday, April 1, 2019, OIT will begin an initiative to implement two-factor authentication for all SMU students to certain online services. To encourage students to enroll before April 1, OIT will award an Amazon gift card to three randomly selected students who enroll a device early – Two of these gift cards have already been won. To be registered for the final drawing, simply enroll a device at smu.edu/duoenroll before the contest entry deadline. You will be automatically entered for that drawing and the future drawings upon device enrollment. Continue reading Two weeks until students are required to use Duo Two-Factor Authentication for my.SMU

E-mail Phishing Simulations Return

AnitPhish (Anti-Phishing Campaign)Phishing attempts – email messages sent by hackers pretending to be your friends, coworkers, or trusted companies – have wreaked havoc across the Internet for years. These messages try to lure you into revealing personal info like passwords and financial information, and their alarmist tone can be deceiving.

Over the past few years, SMU has worked to make people more aware of these phishing attempts by sending simulated phishing emails. For those falling victim to the phishing attempts Continue reading E-mail Phishing Simulations Return

Simplify Signatures with DocuSign

Getting documents signed can be a real hassle. Printing, running the document far and wide for the right people, making sure the Ts and crossed and Is are dotted, and the risk of losing it entirely. Thankfully, we have a solution that allows you to create signable documents and manage signatures all in one place!

DocuSign is an easy-to-use cloud service that takes the guesswork out of putting together documents, assigning signatories, and getting the document to those who need it. On top of that, it is also Continue reading Simplify Signatures with DocuSign

Learn in Your Language with LinkedIn Learning

LinkedIn Learning has recently rolled out a new feature that is sure to make non-native English speakers happy. Now, you can change the language preference to retrieve course content in six other languages (Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Spanish, and Portuguese). While not all courses are available there is still quite a collection to choose from.

Choosing language options in LinkedIn learning. Continue reading Learn in Your Language with LinkedIn Learning

WordPress Blog Forms Moving to Formidable Forms

Formidable FormsOur cloud WordPress vendor, CampusPress, does not support Gravity Forms. While some forms created before the migration are working, many do not. Due to our WordPress instance being hosted in the cloud, Gravity Forms is no longer supporting forms created using their plugin and we are left with no other choice but to move to a different forms processor. Fortunately, CampusPress has a solution freely available called Formidable Forms. Formidable is similar to Gravity Forms but, unlike Gravity Forms, has the benefit of being stable in the current WordPress environment and is fully supported by CampusPress.

We have audited our blog system and have compiled a list of sites using Gravity Forms – many being inactive or have failed to be updated within the past two years. For those sites with inactive forms, Continue reading WordPress Blog Forms Moving to Formidable Forms