Information Services Blog

Archive for April, 2009

Useful Excel Resources

Posted April 15, 2009
Generated by the IS Tech Education Squad - a group of talented students working to support learning about technology - for a recent evening class. Microsoft Excel Tutorials Making a workbook Using Formulas Making Charts Making PivotTables Helpful Resources Link to all Excel Tutorials Video Demos of Excel Operations Excel Webcasts & Podcasts Main Excel Help Page Tons of Excel Templates Worksheet Design Strategies

Blackboard Unavailable this Thursday morning

Posted April 14, 2009
Blackboard will be unavailable for approximately an hour, beginning at 7:00 AM this Thursday morning.  Our colleagues at Swarthmore need to physically relocate one of the database servers which Blackboard uses.  We expect this outage to be uneventful, and to be over by 8:00 am.

Be Aware, Part 2

Posted April 9, 2009
Recently, many community members have been receiving spam and/or phishing type emails that appear to be sent from the Information Services staff. These emails may state that your email account is over quota or is slated for removal. The emails are requesting that you reply with your name, password, and some other personal information. Bryn Mawr College will NEVER, EVER ask for this type of information over email. What happens when your account is comprimised? When an account is compromised by a phishing email (see our previous post about phishing here), the phisher attempts to send hundreds to ... Read more»

Be Aware - Recent Email Scam Traffic

Posted April 6, 2009
Hello everyone, We have seen some fairly "believable" scam traffic in the last week or so, and we thought we would remind you of a few items that will help to keep your accounts safe. Never send any of your passwords or other personal information via email, or enter your password into a field inside an email message. Bryn Mawr Computing will never ask you to give or send us your password, especially via email. Spammers will sometimes include legitimate or legitimate-looking links in an email in order to make the email appear legitimate. This does not guarantee that ... Read more»

Opening the Web Calendar directly

Posted April 5, 2009
If you want to see your calendar immediately, when you first open webmail, here's a link that works https://zmailbox.brynmawr.edu/zimbra/?app=calendar I find this very useful when I want to check a date or schedule without getting distracted by my inbox.