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ProtectUs: System-wide Cybersecurity Initiative

Unable to attend the first ProtectUs Town Hall?

November 18, 2024

ProtectUs is a UC wide cybersecurity initiative implemented in the 2024 academic year. Not to worry! We will be making recordings of all the town halls available. Additionally, we have opened our feedback forms to gather questions, recommendations, or concerns for our project teams to...

DUO Verified Push

January 22, 2024

Changes to our Duo Two Factor Authentication OIT and the Information Security Office are working to be two steps ahead of bad actors and keep you and your sensitive information safe and secure. Part of that effort is a switch from the existing Duo Push method to Duo Verified Push. ...

Canva Coming to UC Merced

December 18, 2023

The Office of Information Technology is aware of an announcement from the University of California, Office of the President (UCOP) announcing a systemwide agreement with the graphic design resource: Canva. We are currently working with UCOP on the launch of Canva at UC Merced. Stay tuned for our...

Winter Service Closure 2023

December 4, 2023

Normal Service Closure The Office of Information Technology (OIT) Service Desk, Classroom Support, and Event Support will be closed from Friday, Dec. 22 at noon through Tuesday, Jan. 2. We will reopen for typical campus support on Wednesday, Jan. 3. Though our offices...

Understand the Risks of Sharing Copyrighted Materials - On & Off Campus

October 20, 2023

At UC Merced, we have recently seen a surge in Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) violations related to the inappropriate sharing of copyrighted content such as downloading and sharing copyrighted movies, games, TV shows, books, and music. While file sharing itself is not inherently illegal,...

Updated Experience for UC Merced Connect

October 8, 2023

UC Merced Connect will be undergoing maintenance on Monday, October 9 from 3:00 am through 5:00 pm. During this maintenance window, the student checklist and admissions messaging to applicants and admits will be unavailable. The rest of Connect will continue to function as expected. Once...

COB 1 rooms 263, 265, and 267 before and after the update

COB and SSM: Recent Upgrades Fall 2023

August 30, 2023

What's New? Changes and Upgrades Exciting news, with the assistance of Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds (HEERF) and Degree Completion funding, many classroom and academic spaces within the Classroom and Office Building 1 (COB 1) and Social Sciences and Management (SSM) have been...

Zoom: New Features Fall 2023

July 19, 2023

What's New Exactly An upcoming Zoom update brings a number of functional quality of life features to the virtual classroom. In order to enjoy these updates please ensure that you are on the latest client version of 5.12.0. jQuery( function() { jQuery( "#accordion" ).accordion({...

Changes to Single Sign-On, Duo 2FA, and UCMNetID Account Management

March 27, 2023

On Monday, March 27 between 8:00 and 10:00 p.m., OIT will be making a number of changes that will impact the look and feel of the typical UC Merced Single Sign-On (SSO) process and UCMNetID account management, including: a new SSO background screen a new Duo Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)...

JupyterHub Workshop

February 27, 2023

Monday, March 6 | 9:00am - 12:00pm Join OIT's Cyberinfrastructure and Research Technologies team as they dive into UC Merced's pilot JupyterHub - an open source, browser based, computational environment that assists professors and students in developing coursework in computational/data-...