For service announcements on Cascade, including the status of Password Synchronization project, and all other services, please check the Service Announcements Page for the latest information.
The “single-sign-on” project is underway. Its aim is to synchronize Cascade Web passwords and the passwords of network login, Webmail, and other network-based applications.
For information on the upcoming Password Synchronization between Network Passwords and Cascade Web Passwords, please see details at www.ups.edu/PSSync.xml.
See the status of this project, please see the Technology Services Service Announcements page.
Will This Affect Instructional Technology Applications?
- Blackboard — This password synchronization will have no effect whatever on Blackboard passwords, which are separate and distinct from all other network and application passwords.
- Moodle — Your password for Moodle is the same as your network/webmail password. If you have issues logging into Moodle, then you have an issue with your network/webmail password. Call the HelpDesk at x8585 or email helpdesk@ups.edu and they will take care of it for you.
Creative Commons, the public interest group that supports a re-use and fair-use friendly copyright license structure, has created a new search engine, http://search.creativecommons.org/ which makes it very easy to search for copy friendly images across several large image sites, including Google Images, Flickr, Yahoo!, blip.tv and others.
This allows you to be sure that the images you retrieve in your searches have been marked by their authors under a Creative Commons Copyright license, which means you can use them in your classes, courses, and research, without having to worry about infringement.
New this year are documented instructions on the process for submitting grades in Cascade.
If you are a new or adjunct faculty, these PDF files show you step by step how to enter and submit mid-term and final grades using Cascade. If you have technical issues using it, please call the HelpDesk at x8585.
For more on University grade information and policies, see the online Acadmic Handbook section on grading.
Our latest Showcase interview with faculty on how they use technology in teaching is here.
Each semester, Lynette Claire, Assistant Professor in the School of Business and Leadership, sponsors the Entrepreneurial Film Festival. She has her business students make short documentaries about a local business owner and share it with other students and community members at the end of the semester in Rausch Auditorium.