Newsletter CIT 1/2025: M365 workshops, cameras in K and L unavailable, useful tips for using ELF
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Dear colleagues,
I am honored to join the team of the Centre for Information Technology of the Faculty of Arts as a leader and to participate in the further development of our department. I have already had the opportunity to meet many of you in the last few months, but if you have not had the opportunity yet, let me briefly introduce myself to you in this way.
I have a lot of experience in information technology from both a contractor and internal administration perspective. In my career, I have mostly specialized in security in heterogeneous networks, wireless data transmission technologies and Microsoft server technologies. In my spare time, I like to focus on smart home control (sometimes the home is like a power plant, with wires peeking out of the wall everywhere, waiting to be plugged in) to increase the comfort and energy savings of ordinary living.
Working in a university environment is different for me in many ways to the commercial environment I have been in - whether it is the meeting of demands from academics, students and service departments, or the way funding is handled, or the working culture. In the Faculty of Arts, I look forward to working with my colleagues to further develop modern technology in the Faculty and to be a support for your work, teaching and learning.
Karel Zemene
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We have scheduled several new online workshops for March, this time focusing on other less known M365 applications. Recently you could attend a workshop on Microsoft Visio. In the coming weeks, you can explore more Whiteboard and Power Automate with us. Dates can be found on our website.
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There are no cameras in the classrooms of buildings K and L
Please note that the cameras in classrooms K and L are no longer available. These cameras were installed in the classrooms at the time of the covid-19 pandemic; currently, the technology is obsolete and we no longer support the operation of these cameras. Thank you for your understanding and we apologize for any complications.
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After 30 June 2025, support for the Ouriginal plagiarism checker will be discontinued. If you have data stored in this tool, please export your data before the end date or it will be deleted. You can continue to use the tool "Find similar documents" in the IS MU for plagiarism checking.
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CSIRT-MU is organising online training courses on the basics of cyber security in the coming months. If you feel that you don't have much experience in this area, or are unsure whether your work processes are in line with the secure handling of work (or personal) data, we definitely recommend the training. There are currently 2 training dates scheduled. The training courses are thaught in Czech only.
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Maps are not just a travel aid. They also provide us with useful data for researching the relationships between space, time and human activity. In the human sciences, they are an important tool in literary studies, history and linguistics. Take a closer look at the uses of so-called geospatial data and the tools you can use to explore them.
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If you need a course to be preset to display in a specific language, you can use the language enforcement feature. With this feature, you can preset the language of a course to ensure that the student will navigate through the course in the desired language. The attached article describes how to use and set up the feature.
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Want to save time when creating courses in ELF? Activity import allows you to easily copy activities from one course to another. This is useful if you want to have the same or similar settings in a new course. For a detailed description of the benefits of this feature, please see the article on the website.
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Do you run a website in the Umbraco system and would you like to use some type of form? For some time now, Umbraco has been offering editable forms that can be useful for collecting registration data or creating various questionnaires for users. See the article on the website for more details.
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Email alias for webmasters
Many of you are already part of the weby-pracoviste@phil.muni.cz alias, which you have been added to when you were granted access to one of the sites. If you do not manage the sites but would like to receive information about news related to the sites, please contact Mgr. Ondrej Myšák at mysak@phil.muni.cz. You can easily find out whether you are currently receiving emails from the mentioned alias or not - on 7 March 2025 we sent a notification to all recipients of the alias that they have been added to the alias.
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CIT History: Faculty websites
30 years ago, the faculty launched its first website. It was a very simple site containing basic information about the departments and contacts. It was only in 2001 that a new conceptual solution was developed - the website has since then been more extensive, containing information about the admission procedure, important documents, details about scholarships and much more. Five years later we started to run the faculty website in the Plone editorial system, but we will discuss this in more detail in some of the future issues of the newsletter.
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Have you encountered a technical problem or need help with something? Please submit your CIT service requests via the web at go.phil.muni.cz/request.
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