At 12:20 p.m., ITS was made aware of a student printing outage. This outage is only related to student printing, and faculty and staff are not affected. ITS is diligently working towards a resolution. We will provide updates and will let you know when this outage has been resolved. Thank you for your patience. To receive outage notifications by text, opt in by texting DrakeITS2021to phone number 226787. You first need to be signed up to receive Bulldog Alerts by text. Check your Bulldog Alerts Settings in myDrake.
Panopto Outage Resolved
Thank you for your patience. ITS has now resolved the Panopto outage. If you continue to experience issues, please contact the support center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its to report your issue. To receive outage notifications by text, opt in by texting DrakeITS2021 to phone number 226787. You first need to be signed up to receive Bulldog Alerts by text. Check your Bulldog Alerts Settings in myDrake.
Panopto Outage
At 1:10pm, ITS was made aware of a Panopto outage. This is affecting Blackboard Ultra courses configured to use Panopto for content creation and distribution. ITS is diligently working with Panopto towards a resolution. We will provide updates and will let you know when this outage has been resolved. Thank you for your patience. To receive outage notifications by text, opt in by texting DrakeITS2021to phone number 226787. You first need to be signed up to receive Bulldog Alerts by text. Check your Bulldog Alerts Settings in myDrake.
Password Gateway Outage Resolved
Thank you for your patience. ITS has now resolved the Password Gateway outage. If you continue to experience issues, please contact the support center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/itsto report your issue. To receive outage notifications by text, opt in by texting DrakeITS2021to phone number 226787. You first need to be signed up to receive Bulldog Alerts by text. Check yourBulldog Alerts Settings in myDrake.
Password Gateway Outage
At 9:30 AM ITS was made aware of a Password Gateway Outage. While it is still possible to access password.drake.edu, attempts to change passwords are failing. ITS is diligently working towards a resolution. We will provide updates and will let you know when this outage has been resolved. Thank you for your patience. To receive outage notifications by text, opt in by texting DrakeITS2021to phone number 226787. You first need to be signed up to receive Bulldog Alerts by text. Check your Bulldog Alerts Settings in myDrake.
SJMC Monday Memo | Aug. 16, 2021
Scholarships available KeepGoingForward.org is offering three scholarships: Act Locally ScholarshipA $1,000 ($500 x 2 winners) scholarship for students interested in giving back to their communities. Open to all students. Short essay required.Deadline: 10/29/21 Keep Going Forward No Essay ScholarshipA $500 scholarship open to any student going through a change or new challenge in life. Open to all students. No essay required.Deadline: 11/30/21 The Shreddership: A Music Scholarship for the Rock Star in All of Us!A $500 scholarship for all students who love making music, at any skill level. Open to all students. Musical entry required.Deadline: 10/30/21 SJMC work-study positions available...
Campus-Wide Service Outage Resolved
At 1:55 p.m., ITS learned of an outage affecting access to all web sites and services, on-and off-campus. At 2:03 p.m., ITS staff resolved the issue. If you continue to experience any issues, please contact the support center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its for assistance.
2L Caleb Piersma Spends Summer as Legal Intern for U.S. Court of Appeals
Caleb Piersma, 2L, is an intern for the Hon. L. Steven Grasz of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in Omaha, Nebraska. The internship is designed to give law students an insight into what it looks like to clerk for a judge on the appellate level. As an intern, Caleb has the chance to apply various legal concepts and gain experience with research, drafting legal opinions, and presenting recent Supreme Court opinions. Caleb took the time to answer a few questions about his experience: How did you discover this internship, and what made you want to...
Drake Physics’ MISSFIT Research featured on ABC News
Inside Science, the publication of the American Institute of Physics, and ABC News published an article describing the efforts of a student-led, interdisciplinary collaboration at Drake to design radiation shielding and artificial gravity systems for interplanetary travel. According to the article, a spaceship bound for Mars carrying passengers would need to provide some kind of radiation shielding in order to protect the people aboard. That’s where Drake comes in. An undergraduate team of researchers from Drake, with the project name of Magneto-Ionization Spacecraft Shield for Interplanetary Travel, or MISSFIT, is working to calculate the tradeoffs among different engineering solutions for radiation shielding and artificial...
Citrix Workspace (VDI) Planned Outage from 8 to 10 p.m. on Thursday, August 12
ITS is making updates to the VDI environment. As a result, access to vdi.drake.edu and all virtual apps and desktops available through either Citrix Workspace or a web browser will be unavailable between 8 and 10 p.m. on Thursday, August 12. ITS is performing this maintenance to ensure that VDI will continue to perform as expected. We appreciate your patience while we perform this maintenance. If you are unable to access this system after the planned maintenance window is over, please contact the support center at 515-271-3001 or visit service.drake.edu/its to report your issue.