Northwestern IT Newsletter

Students

• AI at Northwestern: What’s Available and How to Get Started
• Staying Secure Together: Why Strong Passwords and Vigilance Matter More Than Ever
• What’s In Your Data Closet—Tips for Organizing Your Digital Files
• Deadline to Switch to Northwestern’s Modernized eduroam Sign-in Approaching
• Give Your Data a Vacation-Proof Game Plan—and Don't Miss What's Ahead
  • Quick Tips to Keep Accounts Safe
  • Register for CoDEx
  • TEACHx Save the Date

Faculty and Staff

• AI at Northwestern: What’s Available and How to Get Started
• Staying Secure Together: Why Strong Passwords and Vigilance Matter More Than Ever
• Deadline to Switch to Northwestern’s Modernized eduroam Sign-in Approaching
• What’s In Your Data Closet—Tips for Organizing Your Digital Files
• Spring Quarter Events and Learning Opportunities
  • Research Computing and Data Services and Teaching and Learning Technologies workshops
  • Register for CoDEx
  • TEACHx Save the Date

Students

• Tech Tools to Power Your Academic Experience
• Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Informative Events and Guidance on Avoiding the Digital Goblins
• Introducing 1Password, a New Password Manager Tool for Students
• Get Camera-Ready with a Complimentary Professional Headshot!
• Register for Workshops and Trainings Offered by IT

Faculty and Staff

• Cybersecurity Awareness Month—Informative Events and Guidance on Avoiding the Digital Goblins
• Quick Access to Essential Technology Services
• Tools, Teamwork, and Transformation—Enhancing Digital Learning
• Introducing 1Password, a New Password Manager Tool
• Register for Workshops and Trainings Offered by IT
  • Research-focused workshops
  • Hands-on Canvas workshops

Students

• Avoid Game Over—Play It Smart with File Sharing
• Student Researchers Take Center Stage at CoDEx 2025
  • Student Competition Winners
• ICYMI: Northwestern Students Have Free Access to GlobalProtect VPN
• Preparing for Summer Travel? Remember to Pack These Cybersecurity Tips
• You’ll Always Be a Wildcat, but Your NetID Will Expire

Faculty and Staff

• Certificate-Based Network Authentication Efforts Advance
• Protect Your Privacy Using a VPN at Northwestern and Beyond
• Student AI Literacy Module Now Available for Instructor Use in Canvas Commons
• Preparing for Summer Travel? Remember to Pack These Cybersecurity Tips
• Research Achievements and Discovery Celebrated at CoDEx 2025

Students

• Student Perspective: Tools and Services to Lighten Your Daily Workload
• How to Escape from the Latest Phishing Lures
• SensusAccess – Canvas Assistive Technology Tool Gives You Freedom
• Windows 10 is Reaching End-of-Life
• Secure Your Spot for CoDEx and Save the Date for TEACHx
  • Register for Computation and Data Exchange (CoDEx) symposium
  • Register for TEACHx

Faculty and Staff

• It’s Tax Season—Protect Yourself from the Latest Scams
• Secure Your Spot for CoDEx and Save the Date for TEACHx
  • Register for Computation and Data Exchange (CoDEx) symposium
  • Register for TEACHx
• Windows 10 is Reaching End-of-Life
• SensusAccess – Canvas Assistive Technology Tool Gives Students More Options
• New Enhanced To-Do Features to Support Students

Students

• Fall Back Into Cybersecurity
• The Canvas Chatbot Is Using AI to Become More Helpful
• Effort Underway to Modernize Network Authentication—Certificate-Based Process Coming to eduroam
• Research Computing and Data Services Expands Support for All Student Researchers
  • Choose from 30 workshops and bootcamps
• You Got IT!
  • Find support options and resources
  • No-cost and discounted software
  • Follow us on our new Instagram

Faculty and Staff

• Fall Back Into Cybersecurity
• Effort Underway to Modernize Network Authentication—Certificate-Based Process Coming to eduroam
• Research Computing and Data Services Expands Support
• Generative AI and Teaching and Learning in 2024
• Register for Workshops and Training with Northwestern IT
  • Research Computing and Data Services Workshops
  • Teaching and Learning Technologies Workshops

Students

• Duo MFA Changes Coming July 10
• Several Changes Coming to Canvas Next Month to Give Students More Options and Control
• Spring IT Events Highlight Student Research and Learning
  • Computation and Data Exchange (CoDEx)
  • TEACHx
• Future Graduates–Prepare for When You Go
• Sign Up Today for Northwestern IT's Summer Workshops
  • Research Computing and Data Services Workshops
  • Teaching and Learning Workshops

Faculty and Staff

• Duo MFA Changes Coming July 10
• Canvas Enhancements Arrive in June
• TEACHx Explores New and Renewed Norms in Teaching and Learning
• Research Achievement and Discovery Celebrated at CoDEx
• Sign Up Today for Northwestern IT's Summer Workshops
  • Research Computing and Data Services Workshops
  • Teaching and Learning Workshops

Students

• Duo MFA Changes Coming This Spring
• Showcase Your Computational Research for a Chance to Win Up to $3,000 in Conference Funds
  • Learn about the Computation and Data Exchange (CoDEx) Symposium
  • Find Ways to Participate
• New Student-Requested Features Available in Canvas
• Microsoft’s Large Language Model—Copilot in Bing—Now Available
• Don't Get Caught in a Bad Cyber Romance
  
  • Discover Ways to Protect Your Information and Identity

Faculty and Staff

• Duo MFA Changes Coming This Spring
• Join Us This Spring for CoDEx and TEACHx
• Microsoft’s Large Language Model—Copilot in Bing—Now Available
• Northwestern Increased Canvas Accessibility by 27 Percent—and We’re Not Done Yet
• Review Our Research Workshop Series Offerings
  • Research events
  • Learn more about Research Computing and Data Services