OIT Technology News: September 2023 Edition
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Empowering Students through Interactive Online Courses
Prerna Munoth, one of SMU's Learning Experience Designers, discusses her efforts to improve online course development at SMU by collaborating with faculty to transform traditional offline courses into synchronous and asynchronous online courses.
New Email Tags Provide Warning for Suspicious Messages
Our new Microsoft Defender-based filtering platform allows us to add warning labels to unverified email messages. Here are a few examples of the new notices in Outlook.
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Guidance for Third Parties Sending Email Using an SMU Address
To prevent the spoofing of University addresses to send phishing emails or malware, SMU now requires authorization for partners to send emails using an smu.edu address.
Introducing SMU360!—A New Way to Connect to Your Community at SMU
Introducing SMU360, the new mobile platform for SMU that offers the entire community a place to engage with organizations and departments, view events happening across campus, chat with others, and more!
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Some of the other stories you might have missed:
Video Recap
Here is what we covered in last month's newsletter in just a little over 90 seconds.