Fall semester has arrived

Each semester, undergraduate students who work for Academic Technologies lead technology workshops to promote digital literacy. The purpose of our Digital Literacy program is to help our student leaders develop their leadership, communication, teamwork, and professional competencies while helping all students develop their technology skills.

Simeon Ananou, VP for Information Technology reflects on his first 90 days at Stony Brook and provides a summary of his listening tour and observations.

Identity management is an important aspect of today’s digital world.  In order to keep your accounts secure, we have a new system for resetting passwords which require multiple methods for authentication.

Over 5,000 courses are now being taught in Brightspace! As a reminder, Brightspace will be the only learning management system available after the Spring 2023 semester. In early Fall 2023, Blackboard will be decommissioned.

After analyzing the usage data, gathering student feedback, and considering long-term costs and benefits, we have decided not to renew our contract with our provider, Apogee. Therefore Apogee services, including cable TV and HBO Max, will conclude at the end of December 2022.