Information Technology Services

by Curt Price

Information Technology Services (ITS) administers and maintains the Cascade CMS, which is Southern Illinois University's website content management system. Cascade allows for departments to maintain the content on their departmental websites without needing to know how to code a web page.

Since SIUE started using Cascade years ago, it has been hosted locally within ITS on it's servers that it owns and maintains, but that is about to change.

Starting on June 28th, ITS and Hannon ...

by Curt Price

Microsoft Teams is a collaboration platform available to SIUE Faculty, Staff and Students that can help you and your department improve communication, productivity, and more. 

Since its launch, Microsoft Teams has become the fastest growing app in Microsoft’s history with more than 330,000 companies worldwide using it.

Collaboration

Teams allows users to share files, work on them simultaneously, and collaborate in real time. It also integrates with oth...

by Curt Price

Have you ever gotten frustrated searching for a password you swore you wrote down somewhere? How about frustratingly trying to resize windows so you can view two of them on the same screen? In some cases, technology doesn’t feel like a helpful tool but more like an annoying hassle. Here are 17 (because I had to stop somewhere) shortcuts to help make your daily SIUE life a little easier.

1. When All Else Fails, Reboot

It may be a rule as old as Windows 3.1, but it still wor...

by Curt Price

Cascade is the website content management system used by SIUE. It allows users to make simple changes to their department's website without having to know HTML or CSS or any of the programming languages we use.

In the event that users have a question on how to do something basic within Cascade, they have the option of referencing ITS' Web Management site where some self-help options are available.

These options include, Tips & Tricks, FAQ's, Cascade & Accessibility Tutorials, a ...

Private Information Shared In Photos

Most people don’t realize all they share when sending a picture in a text. Nearly every social media site strips out the metadata that reveals a photo’s little details, like when, where and how it was taken. But that information is not protected if you text a photo. Here's how to prevent that.

To stop location sharing on iPhone:

• Open the image you want to send and tap the share button.
• Select Options a...

by Curt Price

Did you know that when you delete files, they're actually just hidden and still on the drive and not really deleted?

In the video below, Matty McTech explains how to recover/restore deleted files from a USB drive. He also shows you how to actually delete files for good so they can not be recovered.