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Planned system maintenance Wed February 28 @ 3:00am

Starting Wednesday morning at 3:00am Computing & Communications will be performing planned maintenance on the hardware that is home to Banner, our Student Information System. Banner is an integral part of Evergreen’s academic and administrative technology systems including the class registration system, the online evaluation system (ORS), the time certification and leave system, the payroll […]

Banner 9 Project Now Underway

The Project: Evergreen is now moving forward with the migration from Banner 8 to Banner 9. This project has been in the works for many months now but it officially kicked off January 2018 in preparation for Oracle dropping support for the form technology that supports Internet Native Banner (INB), the forms interface for Banner […]

PaperCut now in the Computer Labs

Evergreen is releasing a new print management system starting winter quarter 2017. Students in the Library, Computer Center CAL and Tacoma computer classrooms will see the roll out of PaperCut to replace our old GoPrint system for print release. Papercut  boasts a host of new options for print management, including an eco-dashboard for people to […]

Office365 Project Update

Some have asked, what’s the news with all that talk of migrating Evergreen email to cloud Microsoft Office365?  Here’s the deal. Computing and Communication (C2) staff worked very closely with Microsoft over the course of spring quarter and into early summer with the intent to go live with the new services before fall. Unfortunately, in the testing […]

Evergreen is moving to Office365!

Evergreen will soon be moving to the Microsoft Office365 suite of applications this year, starting with email. After this migration, you’ll get more regular webmail updates and more space in your inbox. Everyone with an Evergreen email will be able to download and use Office365 for home for free. Students will also be given access to OneDrive, […]

Discourse (Greener Commons) updated

The software driving Greener Commons was updated this morning to Version 1.3.0 beta, you may have noticed a new look.  This release changes the look and feel, condensing and simplifying the interface for navigability.  This update also fixed a number of bugs and was driven by performance enhancements.  Please check out https://commons.evergreen.edu and let us […]

Moodle Canvas WordPress (MooCanWord) update

Evergreen is now in our last quarter of actively using Moodle as the primary web technology for academic offerings. Moving forward I thought it would be useful to layout how the transition has been going and what to expect over the next year and beyond. To date, there have been 20 academic programs that have made the move […]

Great complimentary technical training with Lynda.com!

Screen Shot 2012-12-11 at 4.05.35 PMEvergreen students, staff and faculty have free access to hundreds of online software tutorials at Lynda.com courtesy of Lynda Weinman, ‘76. Evergreen community members can now receive unlimited access to a vast library of high-quality, current, and engaging video tutorials taught by recognized industry experts, simply by logging into my.evergreen.edu and selecting the link under the “Community” heading. Lynda.com […]

WordPress upgrade on Sept 11

WordPress will be upgraded to version 3.4.2 this Tuesday morning between 7am and 8am.  This will provide some new features, the most exciting one being really improved in-line contextual help.  The outage will be less than an hour, thanks for your patience and let us know what you think the next time you go to […]