Did you know you can talk to your computer and see your text on the screen? The Dictate (Speech-to-Text) feature available in most Microsoft applications lets you do just that!

The DotCIO wants to alert the Rensselaer community to an increase in sophisticated phishing emails attempting to steal credentials, personal information, and other sensitive data:  

Does your laptop seem a little slow or has shut down for no reason? These helpful IT hints can assist you!

Examples of some best practices:

Is your Operating System up-to-date?

Have a simple project to work on with a team? Consider using Microsoft Planner for organizing and managing teamwork.  It’s free and part of the Office 365 suite!

Email spoofing is a technique used in spam and phishing attacks to trick email recipients into thinking a message came from a person or entity that they either know or can trust.  In these spoofing attacks, the sender forges email accounts with a display name of an individual the…

Did someone send you a shared folder in Box and you’re not able to open this, or you are receiving an error “Invalid Login Credentials”? This could be that you are not registered for a Box account.

What is Box?

Did you know that you can gather information you need very easily by creating a fillable PDF form in Word? 

Examples of PDF fillable forms:

Course Drop form:

Email spoofing is a technique used in spam and phishing attacks to trick email recipients into thinking a message came from a person or entity that they either know or can trust.  In these spoofing attacks, the sender forges email accounts with a display name of an individual the…

DotCIO has acquired a Globus file transfer service subscription for use by all active RPI students, faculty, and staff. Globus provides a secure, unified interface to your research data.

For the upcoming academic year DotCIO will once again be offering Adobe Creative Cloud licensing for faculty and staff work use at a significant discount.  These licenses will be $110 per user per year as opposed to the normal rate of ~$250 per user per year.  The license term is from…