In the fall of 2015, Microsoft added a new feature to Office 365 email called “Clutter.” According to the Microsoft blogs that announced this feature, “Clutter is a feature in Office 365 designed to help you focus on the most important messages in your inbox by moving lower priority messages out of your way and into a new Clutter folder.”
How the Clutter folder works is dependent upon how the user manages their email once it is received. Several students and departments have alerted us that the new feature has caused emails from the University to be moved into the new “Clutter” folder and students are sometimes not aware they have email from the University.
Here’s what we’re doing about this:
We have identified and will apply to our office 365 environment a configuration setting that will require all emails sent to a student account on Office 365 to stay in the Inbox if sent from a University account. After we implement these settings on 1/17/2016, all Clutter folder processing will only apply to emails originating external to the University.
Please contact the UMKC IS Help Desk at 816-235-2000
if you have questions or need to report an issue.
After a review of lecture capture options, UMKC has decided to replace the Tegrity lecture capture system with Panopto. Tegrity will be phased out during spring 2016, and existing Tegrity recordings made up until June 1, 2016 will be converted to the Panopto environment.
Panopto and Tegrity are very similar to use, with Panopto offering better support, fewer major software updates, and the ability to edit content after recording.
To ease the transition, instructors are encouraged to use Panopto beginning in the Spring 2016 semester. Panopto will be installed on all ILE classroom computers, and will be available for all Spring 2016 Blackboard and Moodle courses soon.
More information about Panopto to come. In the meantime, if you have questions about Panopto, that aren’t answered by the website, please send them to panopto@umkc.edu.
As a reminder, new this Fall is a much-requested change to the student print quota available in the IS-supported computer labs around campus: students will receive their entire print quota at the start of each semester rather than having it divided out each week. This change is being made at the request of the UMKC Student Government and will provide students with additional flexibility with their printing needs. Quotas will be refreshed at the beginning of each fall, spring, and summer semesters.
The amount of the student print quota will remain the same — 850 black and white sheets or $42.50 per semester. Students can check their print quota usage in any of the IS student computer labs by using the link in PaperCut. Students will continue to have the option to print additional pages beyond their print quotas by simply adding funds to their RooBucks account. More detailed information is available on the IS lab website: www.umkc.edu/is/labs/.
Beginning in August 2015, students will receive their entire student print quota at the start of each semester rather than having it refreshed each week. This change is being made at the request of the UMKC Student Government and will provide students with additional flexibility with their printing needs. Quotas will be refreshed each spring, summer and fall.
The amount of the student print quota will remain the same — 850 black and white pages. Students can check their print quota usage in any of the IS student computer labs by using the link in PaperCut. Students will continue to have the option to print additional pages beyond their print quotas by simply adding funds to their RooBucks account. More detailed information will be available on the IS lab website this summer.
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