iOS Apps to Consider for Productivity

Simply click on these links from your iOS device or search in the App Store to install them.

Stay tuned for the Android equivalent of this list!

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General Productivity Apps

  1. iWork suite (Apple’s version of Office) — Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
  2. Microsoft Office — Powerpoint, Excel, Word
  3. Adobe Connect — join your online CarmenConnect meetings from your mobile device
  4. Dropbox — a personal cloud storage service
  5. BuckeyeBox — OSU’s official cloud storage service
  6. Google Docs — Google’s online document editing software
  7. Google Drive — Google’s online file storage
  8. Wunderlist — to-do lists that can be collaborative
  9. Evernote — write notes and access them on any device
  10. Notability — hand write notes onto PDFs and PowerPoint presentations
  11. Google Hangouts — online chat client for meetings
  12. TopHat — clicker replacement for classrooms
  13. VoiceThread — multimedia social presence within online classrooms

Nursing Specific Apps

  1. UpToDate — library of clinical answers
  2. First Consult — clinical decision support resource
  3. Micromedex Free Drug Reference
  4. Micromedex Drug Interactions
  5. Micromedex IV Compatibility
  6. BrowZine — find, read, and monitor scholarly journals
  7. Stat!Ref — access to specific medical subscription books
  8. The Access Medicine — point of care information

If at any point you need lessons on how to use these apps, please email augenstein.33@osu.edu for assistance.

CON Firewall Upgrade Status

Friday, Feb 20

Update 1: 5:00 pm – The CON IT team has started the firewall upgrade project.  Right now, all systems are down and are being moved over to the new network configuration.  We will update this page as we make progress.

Update 2: 8:30 pm – Most services have been changed to accept the new firewall configuration, but will not be available until the router and switches have been configured.

Update 3: 11:00 pm – Router and switches have been configured, but we are experiencing issues with DNS (web site name) resolution.

Saturday, Feb 21

Update 4: 3:00 am – Still experiencing issues with DNS resolution and OSU.edu authentication, but we are beginning to restore internal web and file services.  Client computers from within the building should be able to access the internet.

Update 5: 4:00 am – We are making progress in restoring services from within Newton Hall.  Network drives and websites are available internally but are not yet available outside of Newton Hall.  We are stopping for the night and will return tomorrow.

Update 6: 10:00 am Saturday – We are beginning work again.

Update 7: 12:00 pm – Remaining routing issues, DNS resolution, and OSU.edu authentication have been resolved.  Client computers, file servers, and some web servers (including Panopto) are available.

Update 8: 3:00 pm – VPN, SharePoint, Studentweb, Nucleus, Panopto, Network drives (H:, N:, W:, R:), Remote Desktop Server, and Wireless have all been restored and should be accessible.

Update 9: 5:00 pm – We are running OS updates on some systems which may cause brief service interruptions.  The nursing.osu.edu website is still experiencing issues.

Update 10: 10:00 pm – Most printers are back up.  The most CON websites are up (nursing.osu.edu, iPeer), but payment forms are not yet available.

Update 11: 11:30 pm – Some extended functionality of the nursing website has been brought up, client PCs and printers are available.  We are concluding work for the evening but will be back tomorrow to continue to upgrade the security of our new infrastructure.

Sunday, Feb 22

Update 12: 11:30 am – We are beginning work again.

Update 13: 5:00 pm – We have completed work.  All services should be back up and operational.  If you need assistance, please contact us by email at con-informationtechnology@osu.edu.

Thank you for your patience,

CON IT Team

Newton Hall Classroom Upgrades

We have made some upgrades recently in our classrooms as well as some of our conference rooms (128 and 380). Both should be quite noticeable — one literally being in your face.

Who’s watching me?

Microsoft LifeCamFirst, each of the classrooms and 380 has a webcam (with built-in microphone) now. You can use it for web conferencing (such as CarmenConnect) or for recording your lectures in Panopto.

In the classrooms, the webcam is located on a mount near the computer monitor. There is no need to twist the mount to move the webcam around. You can rotate the webcam without moving anything underneath. (In 380, the webcam is on a small tripod on a desk near the TV. In 128, there was already a webcam mounted on top one of the TVs.)

If you don’t like being on video, don’t worry — the use of video is totally optional! You can still get on CarmenConnect or record a Panopto without video. In CarmenConnect, simply make sure not to turn on the webcam. If video from the webcam shows up when you open Panopto Recorder, change it to “None”.

Panopto - change video to None

If you don’t use the webcam for video but choose it for audio, the light on the webcam will still turn on when it’s in use. This is perfectly normal and doesn’t mean it’s secretly recording you.

That was fast!

The other improvement in our classrooms and conference rooms was replacing the hard drives with solid state drives (SSDs). These drives have no moving parts and can access data much faster than a regular hard drive. Logging in on a computer, even for the first time, should be much faster. The same goes with opening up programs, especially Panopto Recorder.

Check out this comparison to see how much faster an SSD can be than a regular hard drive. In this video, both computers are the same except for the drive in each. You’ll see a comparison of startup time as well as the time it takes to load a large document in Photoshop. The seconds you save here and there really do add up!