May 21, 2013

Faculty Activity – New Custom Reports

We are pleased to announce recent enhancements to the Faculty ActivFaculty Activity Menuity interface in myOleMiss.   You can now create custom reports through the Faculty Activity interface. The custom report feature does not replace your annual Faculty Report, but will allow you to leverage the data that has been entered over time into a format for other reports. (To start your annual Faculty Activity Report, see Build Annual Report on the Detailed Navigation Menu.)

A custom report can be generated for a variety of content in either HTML or RTF file formats.  Chairs and those in administration will be able to easily gather information for analysis for a specific time period, activity or faculty member.  Faculty members can produce a report including all of their activities, courses, advisees, theses, and committees over a set period of time. This can be a great asset for tenure track faculty members in the creation of their report.   To begin a custom report, choose Create Custom Report on the Detailed Navigation Menu.

Faculty Activity - Create Custom ReportGetting Help

A training workshop on the Faculty Activity interface will be offered on Friday, March 1st at 1:30 pm. To register, visit http://ittraining.olemiss.edu/. If you need assistance,  or if you have any questions, please contact Faculty Technology Development Center at 662-915-7918 or ftdc@olemiss.edu.  If you would like individual assistance in person, please visit the FTDC in 101 Weir Hall weekdays between the hours of 8:00 AM  and 5:00 PM.

Firefox 4 – Not Recommended

You may have recently read about or been prompted to upgrade your Web browser to Firefox version 4.  This new version of Firefox, released on March 22, 2011, has been causing its own share of headaches on the UM campus in recent days.

Firefox 4, on both the Windows and Mac platforms, is not compatible with myOleMiss, due to issues with the SAP portal environment.  Blackboard also does not support this version of the browser.  For these reasons, the IT Helpdesk recommends that you do not update your browser to version 4 at this time.

If you have already updated to Firefox version 4 and are currently experiencing issues, you will need to roll back to an earlier version. You can download the previous version of Firefox 3.6.16 at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html.