EDUROAM hits one million: EDUROAM, the trusted access management environment for Canadian research and higher education communities, has reached the milestone of one million accesses per month. The system originally pioneered at Simon Fraser University & BCNET and now administered by CANARIE, is used by faculty, staff, researchers, and students from across Canada. EDUROAM milestone
Entrepreneurial engineering students: McMaster University engineering students have created a system called Groupnotes that is an online collaboration tool enabling users to leave messages on the web pages they visit, and lets colleagues view those messages in real-time. Faculty members from McMaster and other Canadian universities have already purchased subscriptions to the software. Student collaboration software
Building a better student services building: The University of Waterloo is building a pedestrian traffic map using a Smartphone app that is available for students on their iPhones and Android devices (no RIM Blackberry support). The purpose of the pedestrian traffic map is to help the Student Services Building committee understand how students use campus. Once a student runs the app on their smartphone, they just walk around campus as normal and their participation helps create a map of the pedestrian traffic on campus. Student success office app
Co-op administration systems: In other news from the University of Waterloo, they are replacing their co-op administration systems. As part of the selection process they are inviting stakeholders from across campus to attend the vendor demonstrations. uWaterloo coop vendors
The Next Generation upgrade: The University of Toronto Next Generation Student Information System (NGSIS) project has begun to roll out service improvements based on access to real-time data from the Student Information System. The first service improvement to be released includes two tools: “Textbook Search Engine” and “Varsity Blues Registration System.” NGSIS update
Entrepreneurial engineering students: McMaster University engineering students have created a system called Groupnotes that is an online collaboration tool enabling users to leave messages on the web pages they visit, and lets colleagues view those messages in real-time. Faculty members from McMaster and other Canadian universities have already purchased subscriptions to the software. Student collaboration software
Building a better student services building: The University of Waterloo is building a pedestrian traffic map using a Smartphone app that is available for students on their iPhones and Android devices (no RIM Blackberry support). The purpose of the pedestrian traffic map is to help the Student Services Building committee understand how students use campus. Once a student runs the app on their smartphone, they just walk around campus as normal and their participation helps create a map of the pedestrian traffic on campus. Student success office app
Co-op administration systems: In other news from the University of Waterloo, they are replacing their co-op administration systems. As part of the selection process they are inviting stakeholders from across campus to attend the vendor demonstrations. uWaterloo coop vendors
The Next Generation upgrade: The University of Toronto Next Generation Student Information System (NGSIS) project has begun to roll out service improvements based on access to real-time data from the Student Information System. The first service improvement to be released includes two tools: “Textbook Search Engine” and “Varsity Blues Registration System.” NGSIS update
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