IT Professionals Forum
9:00 am sessions
SharePoint 2010: A Shared Service
Julia Hart AITS
[Room: Chancellor]This session will provide an overview of SharePoint 2010, along with current campus examples of how SharePoint is being used as a business solution. This overview will lead into an explanation of the SharePoint Shared Services project – defining the service, stating project goals and objectives, and discussing how this shared service collaborative can benefit the University of Illinois.
New Rates Model for Bundled IT and Communications Services
Beth Scheid CITES; Helen Zhang CITES
[Room: Technology]This presentation will discuss the FTE-based funding model based on bundled IT and communication services, who is included in the FTE count, what is included in the service bundle, and how we will implement this new rate plan
Open Source Framework for Public Private Partnerships in Higher Education
Stevin Smith Dell Services; Steve Hovey Major Public Accounts
[Room: Lincoln]What role does higher education have in the next generation of computing? Should higher-ed heed the siren call to "get out of the IT business?" This presentation will answer these questions and propose a global strategy and business model for higher-ed leadership on the new frontier.
Move from BS to MS with an MIS from UIS
David Gerstenecker ACES; Gabe Gibson ATLAS; Tim Newcomb CIC; Kelly Block AITS;Dr. Rassule Hadidi Department of MIS (UIS)
[Room: Alma Mater]Learn from colleagues that are obtaining (or have obtained) a Masters degree in Management Information Systems (MIS) from the UIS online program. Presenters will discuss their experiences and provide guidance from lessons learned going through the program.
Mobile Accessibility, Challenges, and Best Practices
Hadi Rangin Disability Resources & Educational Resources; Jim Hahn Undergraduate Library
[Room: Quad]In this session we provide an overview on the current state of accessibility of mobile applications. We will also demonstrate some of the accessibility/usability challenges. Using templates from the iPhone Developer Environment; Dashcode, we model techniques for making mobile apps more accessible and useful to all users.
Code Slam
[Room: Humanities]Come and go as you wish. Ideas are being collected on the CITES Wiki
10:00 am sessions
Developing an Illinois Mobile Computing Strategy
Mona Heath Office of the CIO
[Room: Chancellor]Contributors from across campus are beginning to shape a new mobile computing strategy (http://www.cio.illinois.edu/Mobile_Computing_White_Paper). Mona Heath will provide an update on progress so far, but most of the session will be devoted to brainstorming about what the strategy should include and ways people developing mobile apps and mobile-friendly websites can share expertise.
College of Engineering AD Migration
Danny Tang Engineering IT; Kathleen Booth Engineering IT
[Room: Technology]IT Professionals from Engineering discuss their efforts to migrate to the new campus Active Directory. This session will cover our new OU design and structure as well as the project plan for AD migration and lessons learned from actual implementation.
An Update on the Center for Multimedia Excellence
Drew MacGregor Engineering IT; John Tubbs ACES; Colleen Cook ATLAS
[Room: Lincoln]The Center for Multimedia Excellence formed in the Fall of 2010 with the goal of "Less Talk, More Action". We will be providing updates on forward progress, initiatives, and future plans.
Being Intentional About Your Career
Michael Bohlmann Office of Tech. Mangement/Office of the CIO; James Quisenberry University Housing
[Room: Alma Mater]We plan for many things at work, both tactically and strategically, but do we give the same kind of attention to our careers? We’ll discuss different aspects of intentional career planning and walk through doing a Strengths/Weaknesses/Opportunities/Threats (SWOT) analysis to aid in that process.
Serving A Growing Customer Support Need [Track: Foundations]
Pamela Williams ATLAS; Jim WitteATLAS
[Room: Quad]The ATLAS Moodle service includes consulting, live-online help, a ticket system, workshops/trainings, drop-in office hours, and an online help website featuring articles on common questions. Our customer service model and approaches have changed over time as our user community has grown dramatically over the years. We will discuss our various methods and the challenges they help to manage.
Code Slam
[Room: Humanities]Come and go as you wish. Ideas are being collected on the CITES Wiki
11:00 am sessions
Data Storage Services Task Force Initiative
Michael Grady Office of the CIO; Beth Sandore University Library
[Room: Chancellor]We will present an update on the work of the task force to date, and coordinate a discussion around feedback on our work to date, what our next steps will and/or should be, what do folks think we've missed as we move forward. The task force plans to make recommendations for the very near future.
AD Course Rosters and You
Nate Baxley Education/ATLAS; Erik Coleman CITES
[Room: Technology]Join members of the Moodle community and CITES to learn about the CITES AD Rosters and how they're being used. We'll cover a practical application of the service used to automate roster and group management in several Moodle sites on campus and talk about some of the hurdles encountered along the way. You'll also hear about the changes coming in version 3 of AD rosters to be released over Christmas break and what steps you need to take to gain access to course rosters in AD.
Value Added: How all work is a process
Nick Riordan AITS - PMO; Michele Raupp AITS - PMO; Marc Carlton AITS - PMO
[Room: Lincoln]All work is a process. This interactive session will introduce Process Management concepts and tools through everyday examples. Participants will come away with a better understanding of how to make their processes more effective and efficient, and why technology isn’t always the answer. An introduction to the Portfolio and Process Management Office will also be provided.
Beer Koozies & Other Modern Marvels: Designing Multimedia for Online Education
Colleen Cook OCE-ATLAS Digital Media; Jason Mock Online & Continuing Education; Eric Snodgrass Atmospheric Sciences
[Room: Alma Mater]For students and faculty that thrive on the interaction that takes place the physical classroom, the prospect of online courses can be daunting. Award-winning UIUC instructor, Eric Snodgrass, and his team will discuss how developing multimedia curriculum materials for online education transformed his views on teaching and enhanced his popular course, Atmospheric Science 120, on and off campus.
Accessibility 101 for Content Creators
Hadi Rangin Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES); Marc Thompson Online & Continuing Education
[Room: Quad]What should every content creator know about the accessibility of materials they use for instruction? Presenters will demonstrate the major accessibility problems with instructional materials people with disabilities using assistive technologies such as screen readers are facing. Attendees will learn how content like web pages, Word and PDF documents can be made more accessible/usable for everyone, including people with disabilities.
Code Slam
[Room: Humanities]Come and go as you wish. Ideas are being collected on the CITES Wiki
1:30 pm sessions
Unified Communications Infrastructure
Joe Yun CITES; Josh Mickle CITES; Subhan Malick CITES; Andrew Nichols CITES
[Room: Chancellor]CITES will give an explanation of the infrastructure behind Unified Communications and will allow time for Q&A.
Data Management Planning services for researchers at Illinois
Michael Grady Office of the CIO; Sarah Shreeves University Library
[Room: Technology]The National Science Foundation, and other funding agencies, now require all grant proposals to include a data management plan (DMP). We will talk about efforts to provide guidance and resources for creating DMPs: DMPTool , a flexible online tool to help researchers generate DMPs, and a Scholarly Commons website and services focused on data management and DMPs.
Campus IT Governance Update
Michael Hites Executive CIO, University of Illinois; Paul Hixson Interim CIO, Urbana-Champaign; John Unsworth Dean, Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Erik Hege GSLIS
[Room: Lincoln]In June of 2011, a series of workshops were held and a committee was formed to develop an IT governance structure, roles, and responsibilities for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Come join us as we discuss the proposal and plan for moving forward in discussing and recommending important aspects of IT for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Lessons from an Informal Group on Learning Spaces
Leslie Hammersmith Office of the CIO
[Room: Alma Mater]This presentation discusses lessons learned over the past year by a community focused on improving learning spaces across the campus. From navigating standard-changing designs to understanding how faculty engagement is key to successful learning space design, this group has moved a successful networking opportunity into a successful working opportunity. Students are the winners when changes become reality within our walls.
FAE 2.0 and Accessibility Inspector for Firefox
Jon Gunderson DRES; Nicholas Hoyt DRES
[Room: Quad]Learn about FAE 2.0 and Accessibility Inspector for Firefox open source web accessibility evaluation and inspection tools. The next generation tools provide the capability to analyze Web 2.0 technologies for accessibility features and use the industry standard OpenAjax rule set for WCAG 2.0 evaluation to support the latest accessibility features of Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) technologies and HTML5.
Code Slam
[Room: Humanities]Come and go as you wish. Ideas are being collected on the CITES Wiki
2:30 pm sessions
Supporting Unified Communications
Kathy Lyons CITES; Bobbi Battleson CITES; Josh Mickle CITES; Subhan Malick CITES
[Room: Chancellor]As many people are dealing with the day to day responsibilities of supporting Unified Communications, this panel will be available to answer support questions regarding Lync, Exchange Email, provisioning, migration, etc. This is an interactive session where the conversation will be driven by the questions from the audience.
"The Linux": How Engineering IT redid their Linux implementation
Dave Mussulman Engineering IT; David Anderson Engineering IT; Andy Wettstein Engineering IT; Mark Haramija Engineering IT
[Room: Technology]Engineering IT deployed a new suite of Linux management for its labs, servers, desktops, clusters, etc. From deployment, to software and configuration management, to AD integration, to monitoring, learn what works (and doesn't work) about a project we call "the Linux"
IT Alliance: New Roles and Contributions
Paul Hixson Office of the CIO; Mike Corn Office of the CIO; James Quisenberry University Housing; Brandon Gant CARLI; Gary Bernstein Fine and Applied Arts
[Room: Lincoln]An expanded, refocused IT Alliance is envisioned to be an important element of the new campus IT governance structure. This session will describe the role of the reconstituted IT Alliance and how it will connect and contribute to other key IT governance functions.
Illinois Compass 2G, Report from the Future
Hazlewood Rick Academic Technology Services/CITES; Rocky Lira CITES; Aaron Ebata Human & Community Development; Robert Baird ATS/CITES
[Room: Alma Mater]Get an update on the new enterprise learning management system coming to our campus. Hear a report from a professor using it now, see the time line for implementation, obtain the training schedule for users, and see some of the differences between the old and the new LMS we are calling Illinois Compass 2G.
Static to Dynamic: Changing Web Environments to Improve the User Experience
Julieanne Chapman CITES; Steph Wilson CITES
[Room: Quad]Moving thousands of pages from a static website to a modern, dynamic, database-driven system can be time intensive but worth the effort. The User Experience Design team is nearly finished migrating the 2,500-page CITES website from Dreamweaver to Drupal. Come learn about our tips, tricks, timelines, and new features – and tell us what you’d like to see next.
Code Slam
[Room: Humanities]Come and go as you wish. Ideas are being collected on the CITES Wiki
3:45 pm sessions
Identity and Access Management (IAM)
Amin Kassem AITS; Charley Kline CITES
[Room: Chancellor]The IAM team has completed the IAM product selections. There were two products selected to address the "Identity Provisioning and Administration" and "Access Management" needs. The first product includes workflow technology to manage access requests, account provisioning, compliance process, role and profile, and passwords. The Access Management product provides an enterprise wide authentication, Single Sign-On (SSO), federation, and some level of authorization. The implementation of both products will allow the University to simplify the management of identity and streamline access to identity data by enterprise as well as departmental applications. At this presentation the team will discuss the project governance structure, staffing, and timeline.
4:30 pm sessions
Wrapup & prize giveaways [Track: Foundations]
[Room: Chancellor]Join us for some closing remarks and prize giveaways. You must be present to win, and need to get your entry forms turned in by 3:45 at the front desk.