How time flies – A review of the innovation that made punch cards a thing of the past at ETH
Back in the day, myStudies, eDoz
and other electronic applications were still unimaginable…. and ETH staff and
students had neither a user name nor a login.
ITS wishes all 4,700 new Bachelor’s and Master’s students and re-entrants a good start into the autumn semester 2020. Each and every one of you will come across us during your studies in one way or another.
The Scientific IT Services of ETH Zurich and LOOP have offered an info event for principal investigators and other potential applicants who are preparing research proposals for the current LOOP call
In an
interview with ETH Zurich, Rui Brandao, Director of ETH IT Services, talks
about his experiences in emergency operation: rapid action with the cloud
solutions such as Zoom & Teams to master the lockdown, support for ETH
Zurich staff working at remote working at home, and the suddenly acquired
flexibility in working.
The
figures are impressive proof of this: with up to 45,000 weekly meetings, Zoom
was ETH Zurich’s communications backbone in the spring semester of 2020. From
the Executive Board’s townhalls, lectures and job interviews to team meetings
and examination supervision: Zoom has proven its worth in almost all academic
situations.
Work at ETH starts in defined steps after running in emergency mode. This also applies to the online examinations. After long and in-depth discussions, it was clear – at everyone’s request – that the session examinations should take place with all of the expected restrictions due to the corona crisis.
Competition Information Security Awareness Campaign
We have two winners in the creative ideas competition for the information security awareness campaign.
The ETH members had the chance to participate in the competition for creative ideas for the next Information Security Awareness campaign until end of January 2020. We are very happy to announce that we now can award prizes to two participants in the competition. We will take their ideas under advisement for our planning of the coming campaign, which is to start in spring 2021.
In corona times, we do not only have to protect ourselves from COVID-19: Especially in this phase, cyber attacks and viruses on the computer have an easier game. So watch out, washing your hands is not sufficient!