Microsoft (MS) Teams and OneDrive is now soft-launched for Winter Term 1, with a focus on helping students with student-to-student collaboration. MS Teams is a collaboration platform for groups of users to share information and create content together. It offers features such as video…
Beginning August 31st, 2020, UBC will require all new Zoom meetings to have a passcode enabled for increased security.Any new meetings that you create as of August 31st will have a passcode automatically enabled and generated. Any meetings that were created before August 31st will not be affected…
The online series "Learning Transformed - UBC Faculty of Education" by UBC Studios is a winner of the silver 2020 Telly Awards in the Online Webseries category. The Telly Awards are a global competition which seek to honor excellence in video and television across all screens. Receiving over 12…
Graduation is a long-standing and cherished tradition at UBC. Each spring and fall, thousands of students walk across the ceremony stage, exchanging handshakes
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Zoom has recently implemented improvements to the security of meetings with the release of version 5.0. Included in these improvements is enhanced encryption for meetings and webinars, which will help keep UBC information safe and secure. As of May 30th, this encryption standard is mandatory and…
It can be difficult to keep track of all the privacy and security reminders you are receiving during your change in work circumstances due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The Privacy Matters @ UBC team has prepared a webpage that cosolidates COVID-19 related privacy resources, and security…
You may have heard of a practice called Zoom bombing where during a Zoom session, intruders hijack the session by saying or showing inappropriate content. Zoom bombers who are successful in disrupting sessions can also post video footage of those incidents to video sharing platforms.To prevent…
UBC Studios is the recipient of the prestigious 2020 MUSE Creative Awards competition for the UBC employer branding video "Why We Work at UBC". The MUSE Creative and MUSE Design Awards are global competitions, which seek to commemorate the exemplary creative and design professionals of various…
In response to increased global threat levels, the UBC Executive is mandating a minimum set of cybersecurity controls for servers, UBC-owned computers and personally-owned computers that meet certain criteria. To learn more about the cybersecurity controls, the criteria, and what action may be…
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