Student Preferred Name and Pronouns
At FSCJ, student can change their preferred first name and selecting personal pronouns by following the directions below. Although changes are made in myFSCJ, they will also appear in Canvas. Note that it may take up to 9 hours for the changes to show up in Canvas.
Create a Canvas Training Certificate
This certificate will prepare users to get the most out of Canvas so they can be confident in providing the best online learning experience for students.
A New Era of Collaboration: Perusall Joins Forces with Turnitin
The EdTech team is excited to share that two of our favorite tools can now be easily used together! Perusall and Turnitin have come together to offer a seamless combination of collaborative reading, discussions, and plagiarism detection tools. This partnership enhances student engagement and academic integrity in a single platform, streamlining your teaching experience.
Two Communities - An Abundance of Great Canvas Information and Resources!
One of our primary goals is to ensure our users feel supported in Canvas by providing an abundance of resources and a variety of easy ways to access them. We also really value seeing instructors engaged in the process of learning and sharing - both amongst their peers and with our team. After all, you will continue to learn and grow (and have questions) throughout your time as a Canvas user. Here, we’ll share two ways that you can partake in and review bigger conversations with other Canvas users.
Kubernetes and Further Improvements to Our Web Project Deployments
This project will work to modernize our web architecture further.
JIRA and Confluence Migration to the Cloud
The migration of JIRA and Confluence from on-prem to the cloud is being driven by the fact that the vendor that creates these products is ending support on the versions we utilize internally. With that said, migrating to the cloud reduces the management overhead of keeping these applications up to date, and should provide increased reliability for the applications.
Cohesity Enterprise Backup and Recovery Replacing NetBackup
Cohesity will provide a state-of-the-art backup and recovery solution with the added benefit of Cloud based immutable backup images and threat monitoring to aid prevention or mitigation of cyber-attacks.
Data Center Network Access Control
Network segmentation is done by logically and virtually isolating access to data center applications, information, and services. Source, destination, and service protocols are restricted by sets of technology to further secure the data center environment.
FSCJ Police Force
IT is working closely with the College’s Security Department to ensure that implementation is within “Best Practice” methods.
Zero Trust Network Access
Zero Trust Network Access is architecture and sets of technology that enable secure access to internal applications, data, and services for remote and on-premises users. Organizational accounts are identified and authorized to access only the applications, data, and services allowed for their role and function. Non-asset endpoint devices that connect to the college network are also identified and secured while allowing the IT Operations team full visibility and control of what is connected to the college network and information resources.