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Fall 2014 Conference

In Fall 2014 the ITPF Planning Committee invited proposals that connected IT pieces to the University's larger commitment to excellence through one of four tracks:

  • Technical Expertise
  • Leadership and Vision
  • Education and Research
  • Engagement and Outreach

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Fall 2014 Schedule

  • 8:00 - 9:30 a.m.: Registration and Breakfast - Oustide of Chancellor Room
  • 9:45 - 10:00 a.m.: ITPF Welcome - (Change in Schedule, report to 10AM session location)
  • 10:00 - 10:45 a.m.
    • Research Data Service
      Heidi Imker, Library; William Mischo, Library
      The Research Data Service (RDS) is a pilot service established in 2014 to provide the Illinois research community with the expertise, tools, and infrastructure necessary to manage and steward research data. Headquartered in the University Library, the Research Data Service is a partnership between the Office of .the Vice Chancellor for Research, the Provost, the Library, GSLIS, CITES, and NCSA.
      PDF link
      Location: Technology Room
      Track: Education and Research
  • 11:00 - 11:45 a.m.
    • 11:45 - 1:00 p.m.: Vendors, Poster Sessions, Networking & Lunch, Illinois Ballroom
    • 1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
      • 2:00 - 2:45 p.m.
        • 2:45 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.: Vendors, Poster Sessions, Networking & Break
        • 3:15 - 4:0 p.m.
          • 4:15 - 4:30 p.m.: Closing & Prize Giveaways (must be present to win)
          • 4:30 p.m.: Networking at Houlihan's (located in iHotel)

Fall 2014 Poster Sessions

  • Advance Illinois | Transforming Advancement for the Future
    Heather Hafner, Advance Illinois Project; Mike Davis, Advance Illinois Project; Bruce Adams, Advance Illinois_Project
    A world-class University of Illinois advancement program is dependent on superior, function rich, integrated technology. The Advance Ilinois (AI) project will convert existing data and implement new technology to ensure completion of the project prior to the public phase of the next University-wide comprehensive campaign to begn in approximately 2017. The Blackbaud CRM implementation will replace the current FACTS legacy system and provide new software and additional functionality for the advancement community to support the tracking of donor and alumni data through a legacy data conversion, major gift prospect management, revenue tracking and reporting, annual fund solicitation, online communication and interaction, event management, volunteer and member management, and tracking of and reporting on key performance metrics.
    Track: Engagement and Outreach
  • Business Process Improvement Shared Service - Fall 2014
    Marc Carlton, University Administration; Amy Glenn, University Administration
    The poster will contain the following information: purpose of the Business Process Improvement (BPI) Shared Service; overview of the service offerings, including engagements, training and support; structure and composition of the team; examples of past and present projects. Handouts explaining the service offerings, outlining our upcoming training dates and providing examples of past and current projects will be available at the table.
    Track: Engagement and Outreach
  • CITES Remote Desktop Gateway
    Jon Gillen, CITES; Devin Gengelbach, CITES
    The CITES Remote Desktop Gateway service greatly simplifies connecting to Windows hosts from non-University networks._We will be providing information about the CITES Remote Desktop Gateway service, which should be particularly handy for IT Pros who work with Windows machines._ The public documentation page is here:_https://www.cites.illinois.edu/remotedesktop_ It's essentially a Remote Desktop tunnel that allows IT Pros or users to access the Remote Desktop service on an Active Directory-joined Windows machine from non-University networks. It works well with every official Microsoft Remote Desktop client, including those on mobile devices.
    Track: [Track:_Technical Expertise
  • Data Center Shared Service (DCSS) - Fall 2014
    Jackie Kern, DCSS Operations Chair, Facilities and Services; Becky McNaught, DCSS Project Manager, AITS_
    Encourage engagement in the data center shared service effort across campus._We will be available to answer any questions about DCSS and the services we offer. This will allow us to socialize the campus effort that is called out in the campus IT strategic plan.
    Track: Engagement and Outreach
  • Email Footprint Challenge
    Brent West, Records and Information Management Services; Jordan Phoenix, Records and Information Management Services
    CITES and Records and Information Management Services (RIMS) are challenging Illinois faculty and staff to a friendly competition to see who can create the smallest email footprint by clearing out old messages. We are asking everyone to spend a little time deleting any unnecessary messages. RIMS will discuss the results of the previous competitions, highlight initial reduction information, and share results from the annual UIS Email Footprint Challenge and fourth annual OBFS Information Footprint Challenge.
    Track: Engagement and Outreach
  • Endpoint Management for all your devices
    Matthew Jones, CITES_
    Managing endpoints can feel like herding cats, but it doesn�t have to. Using endpoint management tools helps keep devices in your department organized, secure, and up-to-date. Learn how to stop chasing down devices and hand-patching by performing mass software installation and removal, in addition you can check for device compliance to become more efficient, in control, and knowledgeable about your department�s assets._We will have information regarding BigFix, Mobile Device management (Air-Watch), McAfee, and other services offered by the CITES Endpoint Management Group._
    Track: Engagement and Outreach
  • IlliniSpaces: Students Discovering You
    Stephen Butler, CITES
    There are many small and large locations on campus available for academic use that most students aren't aware of. IlliniSpaces is a new application initially developed at the University of Washington that CITES is bringing to Illinois. We'd like to share some of the features and implementation details so that departments can come on board:_ 1. Basic overview of the application and who our audience is. Highlight some of the search and map features, the space details, and different feedback mechanisms for students._ 2. Discus a bit the architecture and how to contribute code. It is a Django 1.4 project running on Python 2.7 and gunicorn. Our code is forked from the UW-IT-ACA GitHub repository and also hosted on GitHub._ 3. Look at the admin interface for working with spaces. Discuss the stock attributes from UW that we implemented for this campus._ 4. Discuss some of the UIUC specific space attributes we added. Look at filtering spaces based on uiucEduType. Look at filtering spaces by matching a user's University Housing mailing address._ 5. Talk about some future ideas we've had for expanding the service. Other attributes and instances we might implement.
    Track: Engagement and Outreach
  • Illinois Compass 2g: New and Enhanced Features to Facilitate Education and Collaboration
    Konstantinos Yfantis, CITES; Julie Wilson, CITES
    IT Professionals help support faculty, students and staff that use Illinois Compass 2g in their academic units and can benefit from this poster session by learning how the system can be help facilitate teaching and learning as well as help with research, committee work, training and other endeavors. They will be able to provide guidance to existing and potential new users about the system, connect them to resources on taking advantage of enhanced features along with improved support resources._ CITES launched the Compass 2g (powered by Blackboard Learn) service in November 2011. The service�s predecessor Illinois Compass (powered by Blackboard Vista) was retired in December 2012. CITES started providing Blackboard Mobile Learn as a free app for Illinois students, faculty and staff in Fall 2012. Integrations with publishers such as McGraw Hill Connect as well as others, Compass 2g makes it easy for student to access educational resources._ We plan to provide a synopsis of the service including new features, upcoming plans as well as an overview of the technical infrastructure. We will also illustrate the diverse support resources available to faculty, students and staff to help them use the service that include help desk services, individual and group consulting, scheduled and custom training, web-based tutorials, Lynda.com as well as the Blackboard YouTube channel._ The new features and enhancements for Summer 2014 include: ? Access to test logs for instructors ? Delegated and anonymous grading ? New options for tests: availability exceptions and feedback for students ? Plagiarism detection integrated into assignments ? User interface improvements: grade center and navigation_ We will solicit input by participants on how we can improve the service to help faculty, students and staff fulfill their teaching, learning, outreach missions._ Finally we will also discuss how we engage with faculty, staff and students on a regular basis via the Compass 2g Advisory Group to help us harmonize the service with their needs.
    Track: Education and Research
  • IT Manager Development Program
    Jim Hurst, Engineering IT Shared Services; Jake MacGregor, CITES; Gale Stafford, CITES
    The MGRdev program was created and piloted in 2013, after which the facilitation team did a full-fledged ITPF presentation which was well attended and received._ By the time of this Fall's IT Pro Forum we will just have wrapped up the very successful 2014 Cohort of MGRdev and will be looking ahead to next year._ While a full-scale presentation was needed to introduce the program to the community, at this point we hope to become a well-known resource like the IT Leaders Workshop._ For this poster session the MGRdev Facilitation Team (7 people total) would staff the poster throughout the event to talk about the program and answer questions from interested parties._ A shortened, more flexible version of the content from our 2013 presentation would apply to this poster session:_ 1._ There is a high demand for manager_ training, particularly MGRdev, because of its quality of content and affordability. 2._ People in our_ IT Pro community want to know when the next session is and how to apply 3._ Our peers would also like to ask questions about what the training covers 4. The MGRdev faciltator team can also share participant feedback that identify the strengths and uniqueness of the program. 5._ We will describe the core management skills covered in the program, backed by research.
    Track: Leadership and Vision
  • SharePoint 2013 Upgrade
    Noni Ledford, AITS; Shawn Lee, AITS
    SharePoint is a tool for collaboration that helps groups of people (whether work teams or social groups) share information and work together. SharePoint sites are dynamic and interactive -- members of the site can contribute their own ideas and content as well as comment on or contribute to other people's sites. We're upgrading the Production environment of SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 as part of the enterprise shared service to the university.
    Track: Engagement and Outreach
  • START myResearch - Fall 2014
    Chris Bland, AITS; Sean Ireland, AITS
    START (Systemwide Tools for Administration of Research and Training) is the grants management software leveraging open source (Kuali Coeus) as well as University of Illinois developed software._ myResearch is the Principal Investigator (PI) portal that integrates and displays information from a number of different university systems. It provides faculty with access to the information they need to prepare, submit, route, and manage their grants._ Come visit us to learn about the new application that will handle RNUA (Report Non-University Activities) and FCOI (Financial Conflict of Interest) disclosures._ The myDisclosures Application will be available for the 2015 RNUA. We will also be demonstrating the newly released features of the myResearch Portal.
    Track: Engagement and Outreach
  • U of I Box
    Larry Gibson, AITS
    Are you tired of emailing files back and forth with your colleagues, while never knowing for sure which version is the most current? Do you need a simple, no-hassle way for your department or committee to quickly collaborate on documents?_Have you been looking for a secure method to share files with_colleagues_across your campus, or across institutions? Would you like to easily sync all of your important files between your desktop, laptop, smartphone, and iPad? If so, look no further than the new Illinois_Box.com_service.
    Track: [Track:Engagement and Outreach

Acknowledgements

Fall 2014 IT Pro Forum Planning Committee

Chair: Amanda Bland
Vice Chair: Rob Watson
Lori Beeson
Mike Bohlmann
Malinda Carlisle
Judy Geistlinger
Ed Glaser
Shane Greenarch
Jay Guelfi
Maranda Harden
Ashley Hetrick
Tony Hillen
Alice Jones
Noni Ledford
Kim Nguyen-Jahiel
Matt McNeilly
Candice Solomon-Strutz
Dena Strong
Melissa Whit

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