News

This year, some of our colleagues are being honoured for their years of hard work and dedication to the University.

Facilities is planning construction at Morisset Hall from Saturday, April 29 at 5:00 p.m. until Monday, May 1 at 8:00 a.m. As a result, the Morisset Hall Service Desk will be closed during the construction activity.

Effective 8:00 A.M. on April 28, 2017, you will need the uOttawa VPN (Virtual Private Network) software installed on your machine to access uoCampus if you are not directly using the University’s network and are off-campus. This affects staff only, and excludes students and professors.

During the 2017 Easter long weekend, our offices will be closed, however, the Service Desk located at Morisset Hall and our telephone support at extension 6555 will offer reduced support

World Backup Day infographic

Over 20 webmasters attended the Webmasters meeting on March 1, 2017. The following provides a brief overview of the meeting.

This article highlights a key principle of Enterprise Architecture: reuse. Simply put, the principle of reuse urges us to leverage existing technology components before acquiring new ones. A more complete explanation of reuse, the rationale, and implications, is presented in the enterprise architecture principles article, Reuse existing components before acquiring new ones.

Like most universities, uOttawa has been using a combination of commercial and homegrown tools and processes to manage course catalog and curriculum data. Considering that uOttawa offers hundreds of courses, through 340 undergraduate programs and 158 graduate programs, in addition to a multitude of course/program revisions, course management is complex, time-consuming and often labour-intensive. This spring we will introduce a single, modernized and web-based course calendar using an off-the-shelf product called CourseLeaf Catalog.