Ben Jezierski, Training Coordinator of Information Technology, offers the following training opportunity for our students, faculty and staff:

For CAS students:
In addition to the training classes offered during the day, Ben will offer training classes in the evening to accommodate the needs of our students who take classes in the evening. Our graduate students in the College of Arts & Sciences can benefit greatly from this offer.

For CAS faculty:
Ben is willing to come to your classes and provide training on specific topics for MS Office suite. For example, Ben did a training class for Dr. Jenny Spinner on how to use “Track Changes” in Word. It might also be a good use of class time to consider having Ben teach a class on MS Office when you are away for a conference.

For CAS staff:
Ben has started offering customized training classes for our administrative assistants. We received overwhelming positive feedback on the Zimbra FAQ class on October 21 for our administrative assistants. In January Ben will conduct an Excel class for our administrative assistants.

If you plan to have Ben teach a class that is not offered in the posted IT training class schedule, please contact Anne Szewczyk at szewczyk@sju.edu. Anne will then make the necessary arrangements with Ben. Ben’s classes cover topics in MS Office for PC and Mac, Zimbra Web Client, PC Basic, Mac Basics. Here is IT’s training schedule.

In the “Advisor Menu” section of “Faculty Services” on MySJU, one can find an electronic “curriculum worksheet” for any student (full directions for access below). This worksheet is current in that it lists courses in which the student has enrolled as well as courses that she/he has completed. While the system updates all current course information and is mostly accurate, all advisors would do well to peruse carefully the “Courses Not Used” section of the worksheet. Sometimes the software does not recognize a course and places it in this limbo—the advisor should notify the registrar as well as the student of any misplaced courses on the worksheet.

An advisor may open two similar versions of the worksheet. Once one clicks “Advisor Menu,” she/he may click either “Student General Requirements” or “Completed Student Program Requirements (Printable).” Either path will take the advisor to the main page with the student name, advisor, program and other information. The latter path requires fewer clicks.

NB: At the top of the page, three paragraphs each begin in bold print: Disclaimer; Note; Updating. Under Updating, click “Click here” (in red print) to receive the most recent data for the student’s work sheet.

Path 1
Log into MySJU or a “work around”
Select the following:
Faculty Services
Advisor Menu
ID Selection – enter appropriate info
Submit
Completed Student Requirements (Printable)

or

Path 2
Log into MySJU or a “work around”
Select the following:
Faculty Services
Advisor Menu
ID Selection – enter appropriate info
Submit
Student General Requirements
Program Requirements
Area name for specific detail
Requirement name to see courses

On October 21, Ben Jezierski, Training Coordinator of Information Technology, conducted a workshop for Administrative Assistants in the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) entitled ‘Zimbra Frequently Asked Questions.’  Our Administrative Assistants have been using Zimbra for a while; but still had questions about Zimbra that this workshop would answer. The workshop was the latest of a series of professional development technology workshops for CAS Administrative Assistants organized by Lorraine Hannon and Anne Szewczyk of the CAS Dean’s Office.

The topics covered include: zooming in, spell check, dictionary, return receipts, saved drafts, autosave function, mailboxes, having email and calendar open simultaneously, organization of emails, the Find function, playing a sound when new email arrives, attachment, briefcase, filters, resending old email, creating subfolders, having Zimbra up all day, etc. The participants were very pleased with the coverage of the workshop. Many of them commented that the Zimbra FAQ session was very helpful and that they are looking forward to our future scheduled sessions on Excel and PowerPoint.  The handouts from the workshop can be downloaded from the CAS Administrative Assistants Blackboard site.

Other useful information on Zimbra provided by Information Technology can be found at:

Zimbra blogs

Zimbra FAQs

Question: I recently changed my SJU password.  How do I change my keychain password on my Mac?

Answer: The keychain is where all of your saved passwords and auto-fill entries are saved.You will then have to manually change your “keychain” password by doing the following steps:

1. Navigate to /Applications/Utilities/
2. Locate and double click to select the icon entitled Keychain access. This will launch a
   window entitled: Keychain Access.
3. Navigate to the Edit menu at the top of your screen and from the pull-down menu select Change Password for Keychain “login”
4. In the resulting Change Keychain Passwordwindow:
   1. Enter your old SJU password
   2. Enter your new SJU password.
   3. Re-enter your new SJU password in the Verify box.
   4. Click the OK button to commit your changes. This will close the Change Keychain Password window.

Saint Joseph’s University recently began hosting the website for the peer-reviewed bi-annual journal, Twentieth-Century China, edited by Associate Professor of History James Carter. The website had previously been hosted by The Ohio State University. Hosting TCC substantially enhances Saint Joseph’s profile in Asian Studies–particularly China studies–because all submissions, reviews, and editorial decisions will flow through this website, making SJU an important presence in scholarship about modern China. The journal receives 30-50 submissions per year, with a 20-30% acceptance rate. In the past year, we have received submissions from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, South Korea, Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China, and Canada.