IT Update News from 04/2024

ITS staff movement, anniversaries, and new hires - April 2024

April 11, 2024

Congratulations to ITS staff who recently celebrated a milestone, moved to a new role, or joined our organization in March. Welcome or congratulate your colleagues using Ycards , Yale’s digital...

Yale Status Board - March enhancements

April 11, 2024

On Wednesday, March 27, the Yale Status Board opened its platform to welcome contributing departments within the Yale community. This latest release allows participating departments to publish their desired real-time updates to the board. As of today, early adopter departments are ready to post...

Inside the AI Prompt-a-Thon

April 11, 2024

Sitting at their computers, guided by Microsoft’s Dr. Michael J. Jabbour and Yale IT’s Michelle Morgan, staff engaged in a relatively new concept: an AI prompt-a-thon. At this interactive One IT Conference session, participants learned how to use AI, how to add the right “prompt ingredients,”...

Favorite moments from the conference

April 11, 2024

As the recent One IT conference ended, participants shared their favorite moments on Teams—from learning and networking to New Haven-style pizza. IT staff noted that they enjoyed:

“Seeing old friends and acquaintances and meeting some new ones” – Mike Macary “Watching the Early Career...

One IT Conference takeaways

April 11, 2024

The One IT conference offered participants many opportunities for growth through four learning tracks and 15 sessions. Covering diverse topics ranging from Artificial Intelligence (AI) to information security, these sessions offered valuable insights and knowledge. Now that the conference has...

Conference edition: Capturing the spirit of One IT

April 11, 2024

After nearly a year of planning, the inaugural One IT Conference brought over 340 IT practitioners together on Wednesday, March 20. In addition to supporting the organizational priority of “aligning to seamlessly enable institutional goals,” the conference, which exceeded its attendance goal by...

MSS Lunch & Learn series - April session

April 11, 2024
MSS Lunch & Learn Series YALE-MSS-1 and YALE-MSS-11

Wednesday, April 17 | noon - 1 p.m.

Don’t miss the April session of the MSS Lunch & Learn series! We’re excited for you to join experts from the Information Security Office for discussions around each of...

Plan for these upcoming cybersecurity awareness events

April 11, 2024

Ready for a cyber tune-up? Our Bee Cyber Fit spring campaign is underway!

‘Find the Phish’ workshops

April 19 and April 23

Did you know social engineering remains a top concern at the university? Or that artificial intelligence has increased the complexity and frequency of...

Get trained on Workday Learning

April 11, 2024

Workday Learning is the university’s new platform to facilitate training, learning, and development for you and your team. Attend upcoming manager and learner sessions to learn how to view courses, recommend and assign training, access reports, view a transcript, and more....

New Job Family Redesign training available

April 11, 2024

Business Systems Analysts (BSAs) are the first job family role to receive newly designed training as part of the Job Family Redesign initiative. The training, recommended for BSAs level 1-5, represents the beginning of new training opportunities for all Yale IT staff.

Last spring, IT...

New IT community series supports your unique needs

April 11, 2024

Recently, you may have noticed increased learning opportunities focusing on staff development and performance management. IT Learning and Development and IT Human Resources partnered to launch three series for IT Staff over the coming calendar year—for managers, early career staff, and...

Help shape an IT mentorship program

April 11, 2024

The IT Learning & Development team would love to talk to you about your mentorship experiences and what we can do to make our program successful. In May, we will run two focus groups to shape the direction of future mentorship programming. If you would like to participate in one of these...

IT Leadership Team March meeting recap

April 11, 2024

The March IT Leadership Team meeting covered University Financial Aid, Faculty Workflow, MS365 CoPilot Experience, and an Ask SLT live discussion.

University financial aid

University Director of Financial Aid David Blackmon and  Director of Student and Academic Support Systems Tim ...