Important Notice: Blackboard Upgrade Saturday, May 23rd – 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.

  Posted on: May 8, 2015

Blackboard at blearn.tru.ca will be off-line for maintenance on Saturday, May 23rd, 2015.  This service will be unavailable between 5:30 a.m. to approximately 6:00 p.m. There will be no access to courses or course material during this time period. Thank you for your patience. IT Services (250) 852-6800 or email ITServiceDesk@tru.ca  

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Important! Campus Network Outage – Sunday, May 10th – 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.

  Posted on: April 17, 2015

Please be advised that IT Services will be performing campus network system maintenance on Sunday, May 10, 2015 from 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. This will affect students (Campus and OL), staff, faculty, and Open Learning faculty. Network services, some telephone services (IP phone sets), as well as the wireless and student residence networks may…

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Brief System Service Interruptions – Saturday, April 18th at 7:00 a.m.

  Posted on: April 17, 2015

Please be advised that IT Services will be performing required system maintenance Saturday, April 18 starting at 7:00 a.m. and will last approximately 20 minutes. This will affect students (Campus and OL), staff, faculty, and Open Learning faculty. The services affected are: ACM Clockwork FAST Student and Staff E-mail Lync IT Services (250) 852-6800 or…

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Free Office 365 – Now Available!

  Posted on: March 6, 2015

Students, Staff and Faculty! Now you can get Office 365 for FREE! Information Technology Services would like to announce that Microsoft Office is now available to every one of our students, staff and faculty for free. This automatically updating, subscription-based software comes directly from Microsoft, and ensures the TRU Community  always has the latest version…

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Microsoft Outlook App: Security and Privacy Concerns

  Posted on: February 20, 2015

After recently acquiring the Acompli mobile application, Microsoft rebranded it as Microsoft Outlook app for iOS and Android and released it on January 29th, 2015.  It was quickly identified to not be compliant with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) as well as TRU information security policies and standards prompting IT…

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System Outage Notice: Saturday, Jan. 31st from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.

  Posted on: January 30, 2015

IT Services is performing a system upgrade on Saturday, Jan. 31st from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. Systems unavailable during this time are myTRU, FAST and web registrations. Blackboard Learn and Moodle can be accessed directly at: blearn.tru.ca and moodle.tru.ca

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Revenue Canada Income Tax Phishing Warning

  Posted on: January 14, 2015

Beware of email messages related to Revenue Canada Income Tax.  Revenue Canada does not use email to inform Canadians of tax returns, nor will they contact you by email regarding any errors.http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/nwsrm/lrts/2014/l140307-eng.html

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Privacy/Information Security Awareness Day

  Posted on: January 14, 2015

Join us Feb 5th 9am-230pm for our privacy/information security awareness day and smartphone bootcamp.  RSVP as space is limited: http://events.tru.ca/event/2015/privacysecurity-day …

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Put Your Photo in Outlook and/or Lync (TRU Staff)

  Posted on: January 9, 2015

To have your photo included in Outlook and/or Lync, please send an email to wblake@tru.ca and wpenner@tru.ca with a .jpg format file attached (size should be approximately 100 KB’s) Please be sure to include your computer login name in your email.  You can expect to see your photo in Outlook/Lync within a week.    

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