Attackers, scammers, marketers: these days they鈥檙e all taking advantage of AI to generate polished, typo-free content. Figuring out if an email is legitimate has definitely become more challenging. But when you access your McGill email through Microsoft Outlook, you benefit from several extra features that help protect you from phishing.
Keep an eye out for: phishing safety tips
The Mercury: Online Course Evaluations for Students will not be available from Monday, January 20th at 11:00 AM to Friday, January 24th at 4:00PM for maintenance.
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Microsoft Copilot is a generative AI tool that can help you write texts, generate images, translate texts into other languages, and much more.听听Learn how to access this powerful tool and use its main features with our self-paced introductory online module on myCourses. Through hands-on exercises and real-world scenarios, as well as a discussion of ethical AI practices, you鈥檒l be well-equipped to use Copilot productively and responsibly.
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IT Services recently migrated many Webex softphone users to Teams Phone.
As a result, users may have received a message from Microsoft stating their license will be deactivated soon. (See screenshot above.) It is a legitimate message from Microsoft.
All McGill faculty and staff are assigned Microsoft 365 licenses that provide access to applications such as Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, Word, and Excel. As part of the recent migration, IT Services changed the type of Microsoft 365 license assigned to some users.
We have received reports of a Read.AI bot attending or attempting to attend online meetings organized by McGill faculty and staff. The bot uses generative AI to create a text summarizing a meeting鈥檚 discussions and decisions; it then shares a link to that document with all participants.
香蕉视频 must vet all IT solutions to ensure they safeguard data privacy and security. Read.AI has not been approved for teaching, research, or administrative activities at the University.
The Classroom A/V Instructions application is moving to the Browse Classrooms widget on the on December 13th, 2024.听
Classroom audiovisual information will now be available on a platform the community is familiar with. You鈥檒l also be accessing it more securely with single sign-on (SSO) and two-factor authentication (2FA).
Starting on January 31, 2025, McGill IT Services will begin decommissioning the McGill Staff Directory in several steps. This initiative aims to streamline processes, improve security against phishing attacks, and replace outdated technology.听听
We are excited to announce that we've enabled Single Sign-On (SSO) on听听for a seamless and secure login experience.
Action required: Please log out of your Mural account and log back in using SSO. This will ensure uninterrupted access and a smoother process for future logins.
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Exciting news for Office 365 users! Microsoft Forms is now seamlessly integrated with PowerPoint, allowing you to incorporate live polls, quizzes or surveys directly into your slides. This powerful, easy-to-use feature is free and perfect for gathering real-time feedback and boosting engagement in any setting, from lectures to group projects!
Make your presentations dynamic, collaborative and impactful! With MS Forms, it鈥檚 easy to bring your audience into the experience, enabling instant engagement and interaction. Get started today and take your presentations to the next level!
Important update for Microsoft Teams users! Starting November 27, 2024, all newly created Microsoft Teams groups were set to Private by default. If you attempt to create a new team, the Public option will be unavailable (greyed out), as shown below:
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ORIGINAL Message posted June, 2024
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McGill鈥檚 Emergency Notification System allows you to opt in your mobile device to receive alerts during time-sensitive situations and disruptions in the use of various buildings on campus.
In the past, some mobile phone carriers only allowed voice messages, not SMS text messaging. Today, all carriers support SMS, so we will switch all Emergency Notification System messaging to SMS for mobile phones starting September 18.
If your personal mobile device is configured to use text-to-speech, SMS notifications from McGill will be read aloud.
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Congratulations to Emma Hogarth (Biomedical Sciences), for winning the 2024 IT Services Virtual Scavenger Hunt Contest.
Emma scored 100% on our IT Quiz and won a pair of wireless Beats headphones in the prize draw!
Thank you to all who entered and answered skill-testing questions about the IT services available to McGill students.
We had 1513 entries! Within those entries:
After October 18,听Classroom telephones will no longer automatically call the Audiovisual support hotline when you remove the telephone receiver from the base.
This change will prevent accidental calls to the hotline.
After that date, you will have to use the press the AV System Support button on the lower-left side of the telephone鈥檚 display screen to call the Audiovisiual support hotline. (See below)
UPDATE:听InfoEd is once again available.
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ORIGINAL Message posted September 3, 2024
