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UniversITy Service Catalogue

Our next session will feature the new UniversITy Service Catalogue initiative spearheaded by Policy, Governance and Assessment (PGA) , Education Awareness and Culture (EAC) and Enterprise Applications and Solutions Integration (EASI).

IT@UofT Tech Talk

This virtual event, hosted by Information Technology Services' (ITS) Chief Information Officer Bo Wandschneider, will include timely news and tips, followed by a Q&A session.

Connect+Learn: Captioning and Microsoft Teams

Join Connect+Learn and representatives from Academic & Collaborative Technologies for this new session on using captioning with Microsoft Teams. Topics will include how to use live captioning, create a transcript and best practices for captioning during Teams meetings. View session details.

Safeguarding Science Workshop – Public Safety Canada

This workshop, hosted by Public Safety Canada, is designed for the University of Toronto and the University of Waterloo Research communities. It aims to provide information and guidance to Canadian researchers on how to mitigate threats to their research and what those threats are.

Azure Infrastructure as Code and GitOps

Our next session on March 25 is entitled “Azure Infrastructure as Code and GitOps: How the EIS Systems Group leverages code to automate provisioning and deployment”.

Connect+Learn: Microsoft Whiteboard

Microsoft Whiteboard is a behind-the-scenes tool that can help you make the most out of collaborative brainstorming sessions in these remote work times. Join us for this new interactive session on using the Whiteboard application.

Electronic Signatures and Enterprise DocuSign

This session will introduce the recently launched eSignature Competency Centre, a resource portal providing information and guidance on electronic signatures.

SAP Higher Education and Research User Group (HERUG) Conference

The University of Toronto is virtually hosting the 23rd International SAP Higher Education and Research User Group (HERUG) Conference this spring. The conference theme for 2021 is “Innovative Solutions for the Intelligent University,” a tribute to the important and unique role played by the HERUG community in sharing new ideas and solutions, which advance and […]

Connect+Learn: Enroll in UTORMFA

Join Connect+Learn and representatives from Information Security for a guide to self-enrolling in UTORMFA.

Connect+Learn: Enroll in UTORMFA

U of T faculty, librarians and staff across the tri-campus community are all invited to self-enroll in UTORMFA, an important part of a holistic information security program that will help support the University’s mission to protect user accounts and data.

Connect+Learn: Enroll in UTORMFA

U of T faculty, librarians and staff across the tri-campus community are all invited to self-enroll in UTORMFA, an important part of a holistic information security program that will help support the University’s mission to protect user accounts and data.

IT@UofT conference

Learn about information technology innovations and make lasting connections with colleagues across the tri-campus community.

Pride month at U of T

The Information Technology Services (ITS) division is encouraging staff to #DisplayYourPride by: posting your creative Pride photos/videos and tagging ITS (on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram). Use the #DisplayYourPride2021 hashtag. Learn more here. For more U of T virtual Pride 2021 events coming up in June, visit the Sexual & Gender Diversity Office website here for […]

Connect+Learn: New Teams Meeting Options

Microsoft recently released a slew of new updates to its Teams meeting options. Join Connect+Learn for an overview of these new options and learn how you can use them to better manage your meetings.

Connect+Learn: Enroll in UTORMFA

Join Connect+Learn and representatives from Information Security for a guide to self-enrolling in UTORMFA.

Connect+Learn: Expense Reimbursement Direct Deposit (ERDD) Web Updates

Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI) along with Financial Services will be launching a new version of the Expense Reimbursement Direct Deposit (ERDD) web application on June 14, 2021. Join us for an upcoming one-hour Connect+Learn session with the FAST Team to find out more about this application.

Connect+Learn: Expense Reimbursement Direct Deposit (ERDD) Web Updates

Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI) along with Financial Services will be launching a new version of the Expense Reimbursement Direct Deposit (ERDD) web application on June 14, 2021. Join us for an upcoming one-hour Connect+Learn session with the FAST Team to find out more about this application.

Connect+Learn: Expense Reimbursement Direct Deposit (ERDD) Web Updates

Enterprise Applications & Solutions Integration (EASI) along with Financial Services will be launching a new version of the Expense Reimbursement Direct Deposit (ERDD) web application on June 14, 2021. Join us for an upcoming one-hour Connect+Learn session with the FAST Team to find out more about this application.

Connect+Learn: Enroll in UTORMFA

Join Connect+Learn and representatives from Information Security for a guide to self-enrolling in UTORMFA.

Connect+Learn: Absence Declaration Enhancement

Join us to learn more about this upgrade, which will allow administrators to track current, past and cancelled absences with more detail, including date, course, term, instructor, students’ notes and administrators’ notes.

Microsoft 365 High Performance Collaboration for Researchers

The Centre for Research and Innovation Support (CRIS), in collaboration with Enterprise Applications and Solutions Integration (EASI), is offering a new workshop on Microsoft 365 High Performance Collaboration for Researchers. This session will highlight the Microsoft 365 productivity applications used to collaborate during various points in the research lifecycle. Register here.

Connect+Learn: Absence Declaration Enhancement

Join us to learn more about this upgrade, which will allow administrators to track current, past and cancelled absences with more detail, including date, course, term, instructor, students’ notes and administrators’ notes.

Canadian Research Software Conference 2021

The Canadian Research Software Conference is an annual forum where software developers can learn, collaborate, exchange ideas, and discuss common issues with the goal of supporting high-quality Canadian academic research.

Connect+Learn: Kronos Open House

The event will include a demo and overview of the Kronos system and testimonials from departments currently using it. It will also provide attendees with an opportunity to ask questions about the Kronos system and implementation process.

Connect+Learn: Introduction to Microsoft Whiteboard

Microsoft Whiteboard is a behind-the-scenes tool that can help you make the most out of collaborative brainstorming sessions in these remote work times. Join us for this interactive session on using the Whiteboard application.

Connect+Learn: Creating a Wiki in SharePoint

Creating a knowledge base is an efficient way to collect, update and share organizational information. Join this interactive session on building your own organizational Wiki in SharePoint by using modern site pages and custom columns.

Connect+Learn – Back to campus: Tools for re-entry

Getting ready to return to campus and want to understand the tools that are available to you? This session will provide an overview of Information Technology Services’ Return to Campus Toolkit. Join Connect+Learn to learn more about the range of tools that can assist you and your division in your return to campus.

Connect+Learn: Stay on track with Planner, Tasks and To Do

Microsoft Planner, To Do and Tasks are three integrated tools that can help your hybrid team stay organized, on track and connected. Use these tools to visually organize, prioritize and track different types of teamwork, including projects, initiatives and simple tasks.

Connect+Learn – Online storage with SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams: What to use when

OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint. Are you overwhelmed by all the options in Microsoft 365 and not sure how they relate to each other or what you should use when? Join EASI’s information management team for this interactive discussion on how these products fit together in the information lifecycle so that you can find the best fit for your needs.

Connect+Learn – Back to campus: Tools for re-entry

Getting ready to return to campus and want to understand the tools that are available to you? This session will provide an overview of Information Technology Services’ Return to Campus Toolkit. Join Connect+Learn to learn more about the range of tools that can assist you and your division in your return to campus.

Connect+Learn: Simplify scheduling with FindTime

With multiple stakeholders (who have multiple schedules) it can be tricky to find a meeting time that works for everyone. Fortunately, Microsoft FindTime can help! Join Connect+Learn for this introduction to Microsoft FindTime, the best Outlook tool you don’t know about.

Connect+Learn: Microsoft 365 tools for teaching and learning

In this webinar, representatives from the Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI) will provide an overview of the Microsoft 365 suite and how you can leverage these tools to support teaching and learning activities. We will introduce and model various applications of the tools that can support asynchronous and synchronous delivery, including the OneDrive integration with Quercus.

Connect+Learn: TCard+ for campus space

Join the UTSC TCard+ team for an overview of how their innovative solution can help you and your division keep track of campus space.

Connect+Learn – Back to campus: Tools for re-entry

Getting ready to return to campus and want to understand the tools that are available to you? This session will provide an overview of Information Technology Services’ Return to Campus Toolkit. Join Connect+Learn to learn more about the range of tools that can assist you and your division in your return to campus.

Connect+Learn: TCard+ for campus space

Join the UTSC TCard+ team for an overview of how their innovative solution can help you and your division keep track of campus space.

Connect+Learn- Back to campus: Tools for re-entry

Getting ready to return to campus and want to understand the tools that are available to you? This session will provide an overview of Information Technology Services’ Return to Campus Toolkit. Join Connect+Learn to learn more about the range of tools that can assist you and your division in your return to campus.

Connect+Learn: Simplify scheduling with FindTime

With multiple stakeholders (who have multiple schedules) it can be tricky to find a meeting time that works for everyone. Fortunately, Microsoft FindTime can help! Join Connect+Learn for this introduction to Microsoft FindTime, the best Outlook tool you don’t know about.

Connect+Learn – Back to campus: Community show and tell

Join members of the U of T community to wrap up Connect+Learn: Back to Campus Month with this virtual show and tell. The event will feature representatives from divisions across the University who are using technology to facilitate their return to campus in interesting, inspiring and innovative ways.

ITS Virtual Town Hall

Information Technology Services (ITS) staff are invited to attend the next ITS All Staff Virtual Town Hall on Sept. 14, 10 to 11 a.m.

Connect+Learn: SharePoint office hours

​Join EASI’s information management team for this unstructured drop-in session to get help or ask questions about SharePoint.

Connect+Learn: Introduction to OneNote

Join Connect+Learn for this introduction to OneNote, a note-taking program from Microsoft for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. It gathers users’ notes, drawings, screen clippings and audio commentaries.

Building Cyber Resilience

On October 6, 2021, Ontario’s Cyber Security Centre of Excellence is hosting its second annual cyber security conference for the broader public sector. This full-day virtual conference is geared to senior IT executives, security professionals and change management leaders working in public sector organizations. Register for event here.

Coffee with the CISO: Let’s talk information security

Do you have questions about the information security sector? Grab a coffee and join us in a virtual event hosted by Isaac Straley, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), U of T, for an informal and open conversation.

Connect+Learn: Major updates to Whiteboard for Teams

Microsoft just launched a series of updates to Whiteboard — and they are major! Calling it “the new Microsoft Whiteboard designed for Hybrid Work,” Microsoft seems sure it will make a splash. Join Connect+Learn for this overview of the new and improved Whiteboard and how it can make your Teams meetings more interactive and engaging. […]

Thursday@3: Updates on Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act

At our next Thursday@3 webinar, special guests Ben Poynton and Chris Sabatinos from the University of Toronto AODA office (Division of People Strategy, Equity & Culture) will share updates and insights related to changing institutional and provincial expectations.

Coffee with the CISO: Then and now – information security over the past decade

Join us at this virtual event hosted by Isaac Straley, Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), U of T, for an open conversation about the challenges and accomplishments of the information security sector. Grab a coffee and engage in a brief presentation followed by an 40-minute interactive Q&A session with the CISO.

SiberX Power Hour

Join Ali Abba Hirji and Isaac Straley for Power Hour.

EDUCAUSE Annual Conference

With the best presenters, the best content, and the best networking, the premier higher ed IT event brings together professionals and technology providers from around the world to share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges.

Secure Together – An information security virtual panel event

In this one-hour virtual panel event, you will hear the latest updates from information security experts in the fields of criminology and governmental policy. By making simple changes to how we connect, work and learn online, we can stay secure together.

Absolutely Interdisciplinary

Absolutely Interdisciplinary convenes researchers from across disciplines to build new, interdisciplinary approaches to advance our understanding of how to meet the challenge of ensuring AI and other powerful technologies promote human well-being.

Exploring careers in cyber security

Join us on November 4th from 5:30 - 7 pm at the Exploring Careers in Cyber Security event for a conversation with cyber security experts as they highlight their cyber journey from a non-cyber security background. Sign up today!

Connect+Learn: Simplify meeting scheduling with FindTime

With multiple stakeholders (who have multiple schedules) it can be tricky to find a meeting time that works for everyone. Fortunately, Microsoft FindTime can help! Join Connect+Learn for this introduction to Microsoft FindTime, the best Outlook tool you didn’t know about.

TESS 2021

Save your spot for eCampusOntario’s annual Technology and Education Seminar and Showcase (TESS) conference, which brings together the postsecondary community for learning, collaborating, and celebrating achievements.

TESS 2021

Save your spot for eCampusOntario’s annual Technology and Education Seminar and Showcase (TESS) conference, which brings together the postsecondary community for learning, collaborating, and celebrating achievements.

Connect+Learn: SharePoint office hours

Join EASI’s Information Management team for this unstructured drop-in session to get help or ask questions about SharePoint.

Connect+Learn: Bookings help session

Bring your questions and join Connect+Learn at any time from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. for this unstructured drop-in Bookings help session.

Connect+Learn: Using the new Teams Q&A feature

Microsoft Teams has just added a new Q&A feature. This feature allows meeting attendees to submit questions to a meeting, and for the meeting organizer to moderate them. Join Connect+Learn for a brief demo.

Connect+Learn: SharePoint office hours

​Join EASI's Information Management team for this unstructured drop-in session to get help or ask questions about SharePoint.

Thursdays@3: Leveraging Azure cloud architecture

Join us for early insight into a new cross-unit initiative that will expand our capacity to leverage Microsoft Azure cloud architecture, both for ITS and for the broader U of T community.

ITS (virtual) holiday party

The time has come to celebrate the accomplishments of the Information Technology Services (ITS) team. And what better way to do so than with a festive virtual party filled with ugly sweaters, trivia, prizes and more!

Tech Talk – The future of digital learning

At this ITS Tech Talk, three University of Toronto leaders will share insights on leveraging new digital learning strategies, analytic data access and educational technology platforms to enhance programs and student experience.

Connect+Learn: Introducing Visio

Join Connect+Learn for a brief overview of the Visio diagramming tool. Staff, students and faculty now have access to a new lightweight web-based version of this application as part of the University’s agreement with Microsoft.

Data Privacy Day 2022

The Information Technology Services (ITS) division is leading a Data Privacy Day 2022 campaign to raise awareness and educate the University of Toronto (U of T) tri-campus community on safe data privacy practices.

Introduction to Microsoft 365 @ U of T (Instructor-Led)

This session provides U of T employees with a beginner’s overview of using key Microsoft applications in an administrative context at the University. Tools covered include Outlook, Teams and OneDrive.

Connect+Learn: SharePoint office hours

​Join EASI's Information Management team for this unstructured drop-in session to get help or ask questions about SharePoint.

ITS all staff town hall

Microsoft Teams

Information Technology Services (ITS) staff are invited to attend the next ITS all staff town hall on Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022 from 10 – 11 a.m. Connect with co-workers and participate in a live Q&A session as Bo Wandschneider, Chief Information Officer, ITS and Lori-Anne Hill, Director, Human Resources, Operations and Real Estate Partnerships (OREP) […]

Connect+Learn: SharePoint office hours

​Join EASI's Information Management team for this unstructured drop-in session to get help or ask questions about SharePoint.

Connect+Learn: Power Automate for beginners

Power Automate is a service from Microsoft that lets anyone create code-free automated workflows. Join Connect+Learn for this introduction to Power Automate for beginners. We will discuss what exactly Power Automate is, what it can be used for, and even create a simple automatic workflow together. Join Microsoft Teams Meeting +1 647-794-1609 Canada, Toronto (Toll) […]

Thursdays@3: Return to campus – hybrid work strategies

Our upcoming session will provide insights from an EASI working group that was formed to address development of a range of strategies for hybrid work. Join us for a short overview of key strategies across these domains, followed by a discussion period for questions and suggestions from participants.

Connect+Learn: Share your (real) whiteboard – Content from camera in Teams

Did you know that Teams can automatically frame, resize and increase the contrast on your physical whiteboard so that people in your online meetings can see it better? Teams can even make your body appear transparent so that you never block the content — all you need is your computer’s built-in camera and a whiteboard. Join Connect+Learn for a live demonstration of this feature.

Connect+Learn: IT offboarding made EASI

EASI has made offboarding employees from IT services like email, ROSI and AMS easier than ever. This session will provide a walkthrough of using the Enterprise Service Centre to offboard employees from IT services. It will be followed by a question and answer session.

Connect+Learn: IT offboarding made EASI

EASI has made offboarding employees from IT services like email, ROSI and AMS easier than ever. This session will provide a walkthrough of using the Enterprise Service Centre to offboard employees from IT services. It will be followed by a question and answer session.

OHEIT Conference 2022

The conference is geared towards IT leaders and professionals representing the Ontario higher education sector, and covers a variety of topics on IT projects, products, trends and initiatives in higher education.

#DisplayYourPride

On Wednesday, June 15, 2022, the University of Toronto (U of T) will celebrate Pride month with the annual #DisplayYourPride event.

Thursday@3: Toward more inclusive language in ITS

In this session we will begin to explore the potential impacts of unconscious bias, consider language examples from the IT professional context, and situate this work in the broader context of diversity and inclusion at U of T.