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NYU Classes: Making Open Source Work for You

by Pilar Abuin and Francesca Socolick May 20, 2013
The spring 2013 saw over 6,800 course sites activated in NYU Classes with nearly 38,000 students and 5,100 instructors participating in those sites, exceeding the expected number of sections activated based on Blackboard course site activation rates -- an impressive beginning to the third and final phase of the transition from Blackboard to NYU Classes. Learn more about the progress of the NYU Classes project, and the new features coming soon. Read More

Connect - Information Technology at NYU, Learning Management Systems | Article

Coding 101: The NYU-Codecademy Partnership

Codeacademy, an innovative tech startup, has teamed up with NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development to teach coding in both a classroom and online environment.
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‘UnMeeting’ Connects IT Community Across Continents

Over 120 people from across the University came together for NYU’s first-ever IT “UnMeeting.” Unlike a typical University get together, this event was organized around the concept of "open space technology," where the agenda was created on the fly.
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BuTinah: NYU’s Most Advanced Supercomputer

BuTinah, NYU Abu Dhabi’s high performance computer (HPC) cluster, was ranked 397 in an industry ranking of the top 500 supercomputers around the world, and was also listed as the second-fastest HPC in the Arabian Gulf region.
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  • Updates on the ServiceLink Initiative

    by Kitty Bridges May 20, 2013
    Since 2009, NYU has sponsored the Quality Service Task Force to understand how faculty, staff, and students experience the NYU academic and administrative processes. Read about the latest developments for ServiceLink, a new vision for service centers that support community members and an updated “ticketing” system for receiving and tracking service requests from community members.
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    Connect - Information Technology at NYU, Technical Support, Administrative Technology | Article

  • NYU Libraries Data Services: GIS Day@NYU

    by Lee Ann Fullington and Himanshu Mistry May 20, 2013
    Geographic information systems (GIS) allow us to take spatial data from various sources, overlay map layers, analyze and model the data, and visualize the results in maps, reports, and charts. To celebrate the exciting applications of GIS and the resources available at NYU, Data Services and the Coles Science Center at Bobst Library joined together to host an event last year to highlight GIS projects and services across the University: GIS Day@NYU.
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    Connect - Information Technology at NYU, Research | Article

  • NYU Classes: Making Open Source Work for You

    by Pilar Abuin and Francesca Socolick May 20, 2013
    The spring 2013 saw over 6,800 course sites activated in NYU Classes with nearly 38,000 students and 5,100 instructors participating in those sites, exceeding the expected number of sections activated based on Blackboard course site activation rates -- an impressive beginning to the third and final phase of the transition from Blackboard to NYU Classes. Learn more about the progress of the NYU Classes project, and the new features coming soon.
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    Connect - Information Technology at NYU, Learning Management Systems | Article

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Connect: IT at NYU is a publication of Information Technology Services (ITS) that reports on the many novel and engaging ways that faculty, staff and students at the University use computing and networking in support of their research, administration, and pedagogy.

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