In a traditional face to face environment, teams often use whiteboards to collaborate, brainstorm and flesh out ideas. The Technology Innovation Office relies heavily on this practice to flesh out projects and design solutions. This is also a very common practice in the classroom. So how do we do this when we are all working…
Teams is one of the many applications available to members of Texas State University through Microsoft Office 365. MS Teams provides users with advanced collaboration capabilities and allows them to leverage Office 365 applications through a single point of access. One of it’s very useful capabilities is the ability to host video meetings right from…
Microsoft Teams is an Office 365 application focused on creating a cohesive collaboration environment for teams within the organization. It is available to all students, faculty, and staff at Texas State. Within a Teams space, information can be organized by subject in areas called Channels. Up until now, all channels and their content have been…
Dr. Carlos Solís, Associate Vice President for Technology Innovation, traveled to Chicago to participate in the Microsoft Higher Education Customer Advisory Board meeting in October. He started serving as a board member in September 2019. The board is made up of representatives from higher education across the United States. The mission of the Board is…
EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association that helps higher education elevate the impact of IT. It supports those who lead, manage, deploy, and use information technology to advance higher education. EDUCAUSE hosts an annual meeting every fall, bringing together people from over 23,000 member organizations. The 2019 EDUCAUSE conference took place from October 14 – 17…
AI is a constellation of technologies—from machine learning to natural language processing—that allows machines to sense, comprehend, act and learn. It is seen as THE technology that will transform our relationship with technology, charging our creativity and skills, bringing about a new era of disruption and productivity, where human ingenuity is enhanced by speed and…
In the last few years, substantial transformations in higher education have opened extraordinary new opportunities to innovate instruction and expand educational opportunities. To ensure that Texas State continues to deliver quality education in this period of dynamic innovation and experimentation, the Technology Innovation Office (TIO), has set aside funding for faculty members to submit innovative…
It has been a long-standing goal for the Division of Information Technology to allow Texas State University to provide an inexpensive method for captions and transcript generation for video and audio files used to support multiple activities across the institution. These activities include marketing, archive videos, and, most importantly, instructional media. Captions and transcripts help…
On Feb. 14, 2019, staff in the Technology Innovation Office met with stakeholders for an initial brainstorming session around attendance taking at Texas State. Our goal was to generate ideas and gather feedback around the following problem statement. The university needs a unified, low cost, accurate and secure system to gather classroom attendance and make…
Mediaflo, the Division of Information Technology’s supported Media Management System, runs on the Ensemble Video Platform. Since the launch of Mediaflo, there have been ongoing concerns about video quality and audio/video playback. In addition, Mediaflo has seen its encoding engine discontinued by vendors twice in the last 3 years. Both of those encoding engines [Rhozet…
