For the week of July 27, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:
News
New
The Finance Modernization Executive Sponsors meet at 2:00 p.m. Monday
Clifton Jones (A&M-Central Texas) recently sent the following email (excerpt) asking for ideas related to online appointment scheduling:
Good morning
As mentioned in today’s meeting, we are seeing an increase in return to campus exceptions by staff. It is not surprising given our areas challenges with increasing cases, hospitalization, positivity rates, and extended school closures.
As we look to ensure students have an easy way to schedule appointments with their advisors and enrollment management staff, we are considering online booking/appointment making software. Is anyone using a platform that allows for easy appointment scheduling for students and integrates with the employees Microsoft calendar?
I have asked for IT to explore Calendly, but not sure how long that will take. Just trying to get an idea of what others may be using. Thanks in advance for you feedback.
Respectfully
Clifton Jones
Assistant Vice President, Division of Enrollment Management
Texas A&M University – Central Texas
1001 Leadership Place, Killeen, TX 76549
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CIOs: Please check your email for information on the Adobe system-wide agreement and respond to Mark Stone
System-Wide Contracting News
In Process
A new RFP for mobile application development has been posted
A&M System-wide Contracts Under Development
- Interfolio has been approved by the A&M System IT governance groups as the sole system-wide solution for recruitment, hiring, tenure tracking and career and compensation; TAMU and PVAMU already have member agreements with Interfolio; this opt-in system-wide contract now enters the contract negotiation and implementation planning phase
- Qualtrics provides feedback from customers, employees, and students; the System Offices has agreed to a system-wide agreement starting September 1; details to come
- RELLIS NaaS contract negotiations continue with AT&T
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Current A&M System-wide Contracts
- 3 Play Media provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Access Data provides preservation hold software (in annual assessment)
- Adobe provides full Creative Cloud suite and Adobe Pro software tools (discretionary)
- Automated Sync provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- Banner COE provides Banner-related services (discretionary)
- Blackboard provides a cloud-based learning management system option (discretionary)
- Canvas provides a cloud-based learning management system option (discretionary)
- Class Climate (Scantron) provides tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- D2L provides a cloud-based learning management system option (discretionary)
- Diligent provides board portal functionality (discretionary)
- DocuSign provides electronic signature and related workflow capabilities (discretionary)
- Duo provides two-factor authentication (discretionary)
- Examity provides on-line proctoring services under a one-year master contract (discretionary contract)
- eXplorance provides tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- GovQA (WebQA) is the TAMUS approved Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) solution (in annual assessment)
- Guardian I-9 (LawLogix) provides electronic I-9 compliance verification (discretionary).
- Hootsuite enables members to manage social networks, schedule messages and measure social media from a dashboard (discretionary)
- IOTA Solutions provides tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Laserfiche provides digitization of documents, the automation of records processing, storage retrieval, security and archiving (discretionary)
- Modo Labs provides mobile application development support (discretionary)
- Navex provides ethics and compliance management (discretionary)
- Oracle provides a shared hardware/software platform to host Oracle-based applications (discretionary)
- Portfolium provides students and recent graduates with the ability to connect with businesses and employers using previous academic work and projects to supplement their communication (discretionary)
- ProctorU provides 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)
- Smart Net (Cisco) offers equipment maintenance (discretionary)
- SmartEvals (Gap Technologies) provides tools that allows students to evaluate academic courses and instructors (discretionary)
- Syncplicity licensing is available (in annual assessment)
- Verbit provides closed captioning services (discretionary)
- WebEx online collaboration and meeting software is available at the low cost of $1.44 per month per license (discretionary)
- Zoom online collaboration and meeting software is an alternative to WebEx, GoToMeeting and Adobe Connect
SCIO Trips/Visits
- No trips scheduled this week