ITSpotlight is designed to keep the campus up to date on ITS activities and services.
Classroom Technology Brief & Smart Classroom Survey
Posted November 12, 2025
- Recent classroom technology upgrades, including 25 new standardized classrooms in the Health Sciences building
- Current and upcoming equipment and touch panel refreshes across campus
- Progress on the 7-year upgrade cycle and plans for FY26 (including new lectern standards and an AV-over-IP pilot)
- Top instructional pain points, items still needing investment, and plans for faculty walkthroughs before upgrades
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Preparing for Digital Accessibility: SIUE’s Guide to the 2026 Standards
Posted November 12, 2025
Like many public post-secondary institutions, SIUE is preparing to comply with new digital accessibility requirements that go into effect on April 24, 2026. The new digital accessibility standards help ensure equal access to an institution’s web presence for all users—not just its internal faculty, staff, and students.
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Public websites, such as for admissions, employment, special programming, and academic departments
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The Cascade CMS Knowlede Base
Posted November 12, 2025
Hannon Hill, the developer of the Cascade CMS, has developed a useful Knowledge Base that provides many useful tips and how-to's for Cascade content managers.
Here are a handful of useful resource links for Cascade:
- Creating content
- File Imports
- Add an image to a page
- Adding a caption to an image
- Add a PDF to a page
- Create an anchor link
- Inserting a video
- Content review
- Accessibility Check
Reminder: Video Files Should Not Be Uploaded Into Cascade
Video files (.mp4, .avi...
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