FAST FIVE for week of April 1, 2012



Saint Mary's Sustainability Dashboard: Saint Mary's University (SMU) launched a new sustainability dashboard. This new website enables users to view power, heat, and water consumption in real time. The dashboard shows consumption rates from 13 locations across campus. The dashboard is part of SMU's ongoing commitment to sustainability and is based on a campus map that shows current rates at the click of a mouse. SMU Dashboard

OCAD Paints a CANVAS: OCAD is migrating from its internally developed learning management system to the open source Canvas CV system. The needs for OCAD are particularly unique and the assessment process included a thorough analysis of appropriate LMS choices for the institution. Further details on the process and the decision rationale are available at: OCAD's CANVAS

Compute Canada Announces Interim Executive Director: Compute Canada announced that Jill Kowalchuk has been appointed Interim Executive Director of the national high-performance computing (HPC) organization. Jill will succeed Susan Baldwin, who served as the Executive Director of Compute Canada for more than three years. New Compute Canada Interim Executive Director

UVic Enhances Disk Encryption: In response to a recent data breach at the university, as well a growing number of security and privacy threats, the university is enhancing its security services. Whole disk encryption has become part of the basic offering for all new standard computers and free anti-virus software is now available for UVic computers and one home computer. Enhanced Security & Privacy


Getting connectEd at UNB: The University of New Brunswick is launching connectEd, a family of products and services providing email, calendaring, file storage, messaging, and collaboration. For faculty and staff the suite of integrated Microsoft products will be hosted by IT on campus. Students and alumni services will be delivered through Microsoft's Live@edu cloud service. Connecting with connectEd

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