Customer Spotlight: Morgantown Area Meals on Wheels

The service that the Morgantown Area Meals on Wheels provides is vitally important year-round, but especially during this period of social distancing. Their network of volunteers prepares and delivers an average of 115 fresh and healthy meals each day to clients throughout Morgantown and the organization has experienced an increase in meal requests due to Covid-19. Thankfully they have had 20 new volunteers  help out with the daily deliveries. In addition, a number of community partners have stepped forward with donations of food and funding.  “The new volunteers have been a blessing, as many of our regular volunteers fall in the more vulnerable…

Tech Tip: How to Prevent “Zoom-Bombing”

Zoom-bombing is the term for when individuals “gate-crash” Zoom meetings. These uninvited guests share their screens to bombard real attendees with disturbing pornographic and/or violent imagery. Most of these are perpetrated via publicly available Zoom links; however, not all depending on your settings. Here are ways to protect you and your guests from falling victim. Read more about what you can do to protect yourself here: https://security.berkeley.edu/resources/cybersecurity-and-covid-19/settings-preventing-zoom-bombing Tips courtesy of Zoom and UC Berkeley

Customer Spotlight: E-Learning at Blue Ridge CTC

The E-Learning department at Blue Ridge Community and Technical College hosted its tenth successful Welcome Back Week in January 2020. The department’s e-learning support awareness program was started in the fall of 2016 to educate students about the support options for Blackboard and online learning while on campus. During the first week of classes each semester, E-Learning sets up a table in the café area on campus to serve as a one-stop shop for login assistance and Blackboard support. In addition to offering on-demand support at a convenient location for students, E-Learning chooses a campaign theme for each Welcome Back…

Ellucian removes the SOC worksheet, from its latest version of DegreeWorks

Remember SOC Worksheet? Ellucian has quietly removed the SOC (Servicemembers Opportunity Colleges) worksheet from DegreeWorks 5.0.3, which was released on December 20th. While DegreeWorks 5.0.3 contains a slew of enhancements and redesigns it also marks the end to several features.  In this announcement we take a look at those obsolete features. Stay tuned for more details about 5.0.3 as we prepare to upgrade our DegreeWorks hosted institutions in 2020. It’s the beginning of the end for these DegreeWorks features: With 5.0.3 Ellucian has dropped support for the following:   SOC WorksheetThe Department of Defense (DoD) announced the sunset of the Servicemembers…

Customer Spotlight: Quality Matters at Glenville State College

As part of spring prep week 2020, Glenville State College offered a face-to-face “Applying the Quality Matters Rubric” course.  Prior to the start of each semester, Glenville State College offers a prep week to ready and inspire its faculty. This was Glenville’s first time hosting a face-to-face Quality Matters (QM) workshop.  Dr. Roxann Humbert facilitated the four hour course.  Since joining in the summer of 2017, Glenville has embraced QM with over 60 percent of faculty completing a workshop.  The workshop generated positive feedback from faculty.  They felt Dr. Humbert was an excellent and very knowledgeable facilitator.  They enjoyed the…

WVNET Accomplishments for 2019

2019 was another year of restructuring, staff retiring and some employees moving on to the next adventure in their lives. But we still came out on top with 10 new employees to joining the WVNET team. Also, WVNET will be celebrating 45 years of service in 2020. Check out our blog for some history on WVNET throughout the years.

We use cookies to enhance your browsing experience and analyze website traffic. By continuing to use our site, you consent to the use of cookies. Click here to opt-out.