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December 6, 2022
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Planned Maintenance over Winter Break


The campus often uses winter break as an opportunity to perform maintenance on IT and electrical systems, and this year is no exception!

IET has notified us that they will be replacing core network components during the following windows. Many campus IT services will be unavailable during these times:
  • Wed 12/14 6PM - Thu 12/15 6AM
  • Sun 12/18 5AM - 5PM
  • Tue 12/20 6PM - Wed 12/21 6AM
Additionally, UC Davis Facilities has notified us that they will be performing electrical maintenance that will result in brief power outages (estimated 1 minute) in many buildings, including Cruess, Kerr, and Sprocket:
  • Mon 12/12 8AM
  • Wed 12/14 8AM
If you are counting on remote access to on-campus computers housed in the affected buildings over the break, you may need to make arrangements to have the computers powered back on after these electrical interruptions.

GradeScope for Automated Grading



GradeScope is available to all UC Davis instructors directly in Canvas, and it can help you to speed up and even automate grading of multiple-choice exams.

One function of GradeScope is "Bubble Sheet Assignments," similar to ScanTron exams.
GradeScope a printable bubble sheet template, and you can scan in submitted bubble sheets using any desktop or copy-machine scanner or even a mobile phone.

Quick Updates and Reminders


Two Deadlines for Winter Break

  • Our last day to place orders that will be shipped is 12/12, and we will resume orders in January. This includes many common orders for computers, printers, and peripherals.
  • For purchases that require a contract or purchase order, the campus Supply Chain Management deadline for submitting purchase requests is 5PM on 12/7. Orders submitted after that date will be held until January 2023.

LS IT Holiday Hours

LS IT will have reduced service Tue 12/27 - Thu 12/29. LS IT personnel will be working remotely and responding on a best effort basis.
 

Moving from Sophos to Microsoft Defender for Antivirus

LS IT is planning to migrate all managed computers from Sophos Antivirus to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint in early 2023. We will communicate more in the coming months, but we wanted to start socializing the change now.
 

UC Davis Phish Bowl

The UC Davis Phish Bowl is a fast place to check whether a suspicious email you've received is phishing or legitimate. 
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