Office of Technology Services (OTS) Archive

  • Access to Gartner Research

    Access to Gartner Research

    The Office of Technology Services (OTS) is pleased to announce that all Illinois Tech students, faculty, and staff now have access to the resources of the Gartner IT Library through its online database. Gartner is the world's leading information-technology research and advisory company, and its library provides access to more than 116,000 documents on more than 1,300 topics.

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  • Turning Off Default Video-Conferencing Selection in Google Calendar 

    Turning Off Default Video-Conferencing Selection in Google Calendar 

    The Office of Technology Services (OTS) has heard from many of our community members that Google Meet is being added to all meetings as the default video-conferencing selection. We understand your concerns and therefore we will be turning off the default video-conferencing selection in the Google Calendar beginning Friday, March 8, 2024.  

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  • Annual Contact Updates and Policy-Agreement Certifications Begin February 1

    Annual Contact Updates and Policy-Agreement Certifications Begin February 1

    The Office of Title IX and HEA Compliance and the Office of Technology Services (OTS) would like to remind you of two important annual Illinois Tech updates and certifications, which you will be prompted to complete the first time you log into the myIIT.edu portal on or after Thursday, February 1, 2024. After completing all of them, you will be logged out of your session and returned to the Access Illinois Tech login page to re-enter your credentials.

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  • Technology Access After Graduation

    Technology Access After Graduation

    The Office of Technology Services (OTS) has created an Alumni Technology Access webpage that explains which software and services will and will not be available to you after you graduate so that you can better plan for the future. Illinois Tech allows students to retain their university email account for life, but access to other services and applications may not be available after graduation or may be available for just 12 months post-graduation.

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  • VPN’s Multi-factor Authentication Coming Friday, January 20

    VPN’s Multi-factor Authentication Coming Friday, January 20

    As part of Illinois Tech’s ongoing effort to enhance the university’s cybersecurity, on Friday, January 20, the Office of Technology Services (OTS) will be introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for our Virtual Private Network (VPN) that will use Access Illinois Tech’s MFA environment with which you are already familiar and currently using.

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  • VPN’s Multi-factor Authentication Coming Friday, January 20

    VPN’s Multi-factor Authentication Coming Friday, January 20

    As part of Illinois Tech’s ongoing effort to enhance the university’s cybersecurity, on Friday, January 20, the Office of Technology Services (OTS) will be introducing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for our Virtual Private Network (VPN) that will use Access Illinois Tech’s MFA environment with which you are already familiar and currently using.

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  • Change Coming to Voicemail Delivery Effective January 27

    Change Coming to Voicemail Delivery Effective January 27

    To improve your experience and resolve the frequent “full-voicemail” message that callers, including our students, receive, on January 27, 2023, OTS will transition the community to receiving voicemail messages via email ONLY. This means that voicemail will no longer be delivered to your voicemail box, unless you specifically take action and request that service to continue by submitting a ticket to the OTS Support Desk/ITS Help Desk.

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  • Annual Contact Updates and Policy-Agreement Certifications Begin February 2

    Annual Contact Updates and Policy-Agreement Certifications Begin February 2

    The Office of Title IX and HEA Compliance and the Office of Technology Services (OTS) would like to remind you of two important, annual, Illinois Tech updates and certifications, which you will be prompted to complete the first time you log into the myIIT portal on or after Thursday, February 2, 2023.

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  • Winner Chosen in the Illinois Tech Cybersecurity Hero Design Contest

    Winner Chosen in the Illinois Tech Cybersecurity Hero Design Contest

    Abiha Hussain, Freshman, ITM, won first place and a $100 gift card in the Illinois Tech Cybersecurity Hero Design Contest, an effort by the Office of Technology Services to help create a culture of cybersecurity at Illinois Tech.

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  • Access Illinois Tech Update – Improvements Coming November 14

    Access Illinois Tech Update – Improvements Coming November 14

    This weekend the Office of Technology Services (OTS) will be deploying the next phase of Access Illinois Tech. On November 14, 2022, these are the primary changes you will see include: Access Illinois Tech will be your new “go-to” dashboard for most university applications and resources, All of the applications that are currently in your myIIT Portal 9-box grid (in the top-right corner of the myIIT portal) will move to the Access Illinois Tech dashboard, and your university password will be managed through Access Illinois Tech.

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