Campus Community,

If you’re looking for something new to try next week during Spring Break, you might want to give LinkedIn Learning a look. Thanks to our partnership with LinkedIn, the entire SJSU community has no-cost access to LinkedIn Learning, a collection of expert-led online courses. This is an excellent resource for professional development with many current videos available for skill building, such as:

• Gamification for Interactive Learning
• One-Minute Habits for Hybrid Working Success
• Evaluate Your Course’s Syllabus, Milestones and Activities
• Supporting Allyship and Anti-Racism at Work
• Project Management Foundations

Try LinkedIn Learning

Videos range from 5 minutes to a couple hours, depending on what you need and how deep you want to dive in.

Thanks Leon Nguyen, one of our IT Program Managers, for maintaining LinkedIn Learning for our university and providing these tips. As always, the SJSU IT Service Desk is here to help by phone at (408) 924-1530 or online.

Thanks,
Bob Lim
Vice President for Information Technology
and CIO at San Jose State University

Spartans,

Here’s a tip if you’re in need of a quick refresher on those older prerequisites, picking up a new hobby, or upping your skills. Thanks to our partnership with LinkedIn, SJSU students have no-cost access to LinkedIn Learning, a collection of expert-led online courses. Videos range from 5 minutes to a couple hours, depending on what you need and how deep you want to dive in.

Try LinkedIn Learning.

Thanks Leon Nguyen, one of our IT Program Managers, for maintaining LinkedIn Learning for our university and providing these tips. As always, the SJSU IT Service Desk is here to help by phone at (408) 924-1530 or online.

Thanks,
Bob Lim
Vice President for Information Technology
and CIO at San Jose State University

Campus Community,

Here’s a quick tip to protect your home devices and personal accounts against cyber attack: SJSU IT offers no-cost access to enterprise-grade security solutions. Check them out. 

• Sophos Home Premium has real-time antivirus protection, ransomware protection, advanced web protection, and more. You can install this on up to five devices with one @sjsu.edu account. Download it now at no cost. 
• LastPass Premium Password Manager stores all your passwords and automatically suggests super strong passwords, among other advanced features. LastPass even syncs across your PC, phone, and other devices. You can sign up today.

You can find more security and safety information at the SJSU IT Safe Computing website. 

Thank you Cole Gunter, our Information Security Coordinator, and Noel McCormick, our Information Security Analyst & Program Coordinator, for maintaining these security software options for our university and providing these tips. As always, the SJSU IT Service Desk is here to help by phone at (408) 924-1530 or online.

Thanks,
Bob Lim
Vice President for Information Technology
and CIO at San Jose State University

Campus community,

Take a couple minutes and check out these helpful tips for using Google Workspace (Drive, Chat, Calendar, Sheets, and more). Here’s a quick breakdown of some new features you can try out:

• Invite users without Google Accounts to create files in your Shared Drives. This builds on your ability to share and edit with outside partners or folks from other universities. Learn more.
• “Interactive Timeline View” visualizes data in Google Sheets, a great fit for task management and project management data. Learn more.
• Expiring access controls in Google Drive allow you to set expiration dates on your shares, only giving access for a defined period of time. Learn more.
• “Time Insights” analyzes your calendar activity and shows you how you’ve spent your scheduled time. This feature highlights things like how many 1:1 meetings you schedule, how many regular (3+ guests) meetings you schedule, your total meeting time per week, and even what your remaining non-meeting time looks like. Learn more.
• “Manage Approvals” is great for departments that need to produce collaborative documents and communications, helping you review and approve documents before they’re released. Learn more.
• “Conversation Summaries” collapses big Google Chats to be more organized. Learn more.

Thanks Andy Trembley, our Cloud Systems Analyst and Google Administrator, for providing these tips. And as always, the SJSU IT Service Desk is here to help by phone at (408) 924-1530 or online.

Thanks,
Bob Lim
Vice President for Information Technology
and CIO at San Jose State University