News Archive
Join us as we celebrate and promote Pink Shirt Day at UBC!
A global movement, Pink Shirt Day grew from an act of kindness in Nova Scotia when a group of students supported a fellow student being bullied for wearing a pink t-shirt to school.
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Microsoft Whiteboard now available in Microsoft 365
Microsoft Whiteboard is now available in Microsoft 365.
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A one-year data retention schedule for Zoom and MS Teams video recordings is coming October 2023
In October 2023, UBC will implement an automated one-year retention policy for video recordings. This data retention schedule will affect all faculty, staff and student employees at both UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan campuses.
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Lightboard studio hits milestone use case of livestreaming to 1000+ undergrad students
Supporting UBC Professor Mark MacLean and Professor James Colliander, UBC Studios has started livestreaming two courses to more than 1000 undergrad UBC students in the fall semester of 2022.
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Planned interruption to multiple UBC Enterprise Services on July 30
This message is to alert you to a planned interruption to multiple UBC Enterprise Services on July 30 from 10:00am to 5:00pm PT.
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In loving memory of Kirk Karasin
Kirk Karasin sadly unexpectedly passed away March 9, 2020 at the young age of 42 from health complications. Kirk was a Senior Media Specialist at UBC Studios, overseeing the editorial and innovative technologies being developed.
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Digital UBC: Community Update for March
Digital UBC aims to develop a forward-looking strategy that advances
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Participate in UBC’s Records Classification and Retention Schedules review
The Records Management Office (RMO) for UBC Vancouver and UBC Okanagan is issuing enterprise-wide retention schedules that require input from across the university.
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UBC ARC announces Globus Plus for Researchers
UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is pleased to announce the availability of Globus Plus to the research community. Globus is a research-focused data transfer platform that lets us
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