News
New
The Spring semester starts this week for all institutions in the A&M System.
Columbia Advisory Group has established an internship program with A&M-Commerce and is interested in doing the same with other schools.
System-Wide Contracting News
New
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development
- Captioning Services will provide members with closed caption, transcription and subtitling solutions to make video accessible, searchable, SEO-friendly and more engaging
- Learning Management Systems RFP responses have been received; a committee has been formed to begin the process of reviewing those responses
- Maxient will provide members with a tool to manage student discipline, academic integrity and Title IX matters
- Proctoring Solutions RFP is being reviewed by OGC
Repeats
Current A&M System-wide Contracts
- Access Data provides members with preservation hold software (in annual assessment)
- Banner COE provides members with Banner-related services (discretionary)
- Cisco SmartNet offers members equipment maintenance (discretionary)
- Class Climate (Scantron) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Comevo provides members with online orientation software services (discretionary)
- Diligent provides board portal functionality for all members (discretionary)
- Docusign provides members with electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- Duo provides two-factor authentication for all members (discretionary)
- Examity provides members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract)
- eXplorance provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Hootsuite enables members to manage social networks, schedule messages and measure social media from a dashboard (discretionary)
- IOTA Solutions provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Laserfiche provides members with the digitization of documents, the automation of records processing, storage retrieval, security and archiving (discretionary)
- Modo Labs provides mobile application development support (discretionary)
- ProctorU provides members with on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary)
- Proofpoint email filtering and data loss prevention tools (in annual assessment)
- Siteimprove checks web pages, every five days, for spelling, grammar, broken links and accessibility for 54 cents per web page per year (discretionary)
- SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) provides members with tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Syncplicity licensing is available for all members (in annual assessment)
- Varonis will provide members with insider threat protection (discretionary)
- WebEx online collaboration and meeting software is available to all members at the low cost of $1.44 per month per license (discretionary)
- WebQA is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution for all members (in annual assessment)
Projects
New
Workday
- Fifty percent (28,943) of our 58,000 faculty, staff, student workers and retirees have logged into Workday since its December 17 go live!
- Use of a mobile device to access Workday continues to rise. If you need help setting up your mobile device, check out Workday Help for easy instructions (Login to SSO / Workday Help / Use Workday / Workday Basics / Access the Workday Mobile App)
- Need help saving for a rainy day? Workday lets you direct your paycheck into up to five checking and/or savings accounts. Check out Workday Help for easy instructions on how to add accounts to Workday and direct a percentage or dollar amount of your pay to them (Login to SSO / Workday Help / Use Workday / Faculty / Staff / Edit Payment Elections (Employee)). Note: Set up a checking or savings account with your bank or credit union before directing pay to it
SCIO Trips/Visits
- Corpus Christi (Jan 18)