There is currently a nationwide Canvas outage impacting Boston College faculty, staff, and students. We will provide updates. The vendor status page: https://t.co/fpKr5z2mhP
Welcome back to campus! As you get back into your routine, if you have technology questions or problems, reach out to BC ITS for assistance: https://t.co/GXfQmzTcRE
Caffeine? Check. Study guides? Check. Tech issues? We've got you. ๐ป The ITS Walk-In Help Desk on O'Neill 3rd floor is open for all your last-minute troubleshooting needs. Good luck on finals, Eagles! #BostonCollege#FinalsWeek
Scammers love the holidays. As online shopping surges, so do fake websites, fraudulent ads, emails, texts, and too-good-to-be-true deals across social media. Shop from reputable companies only, don't fall for phony UPS texts/emails, and use credit cards to pay, not gift cards.
If you are using public wifi at coffee shops, libraries, or at the airport, be sure to login to BC EagleVPN before you get started. It offers an additional layer of protection: https://t.co/kkMdeJo1KJ
Today, as part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, our BC ITS student employees were outside sharing tips to avoid phishing scams. Thanks to everyone who stopped by! Find out more at https://t.co/rE3BQkxXb1
Be eagle-eyed when reviewing emails ๐ฆ ! There is a phishing scam targeting employees with fraudulent retirement consultation offers: https://t.co/8FlSsHcTmX
BC faculty, staff, and students have access to NotebookLM from within the apps menu (aka "the waffle") of their BC Google account. Recent improvements by Google, make this powerful AI thinking partner worth revisitingโor discovering for the first time: https://t.co/3Mo50j3FXa
Welcome back to all undergraduate and graduate students! Is your laptop set up for remote printing yet? If not, visit https://t.co/zddIWLUJzt. Hope you have a great semester!
We often see the number of phishing emails increase as the semester gets started. Do you know how to report suspicious emails sent to you BC email account? (Tip: Ignore phishing messages in the Spam or Trash folders). https://t.co/tdYwo7lY97
One week until first-year students move in to the residence halls! ITS staff and student employees will be on hand to assist students with connecting devices to the network, and to answer tech questions. See you soon, Class of 2029!
Computational research at Boston College continues to grow, and thanks to the on-going collaboration between ITS and the faculty of the Research Computing Committee, the High Performance Computing cluster is keeping pace with the needs: https://t.co/Js5r1aQA2h