2021 Michigan IT Symposium Posters

Units across the university use email to market to external audiences, including prospective students and parents, alumni, donors, corporate or foundation partners, and the like. Even where it might be convenient for university units or stakeholders to see our unit activities as separate, other stakeholders and the government see our activities as stemming from a singular source.

Learn how the ITS DEI Education & Scholarship subcommittee adapted to meet the needs of the moment. Our in-person formal training series was interrupted by Covid as the subcommittee was embarking on year 4 of the 5-year ITS DEI Strategic Plan. The committee had dramatic changes in both the skillsets and resources available even as Summer 2020 demanded a response to current events. These changes necessitated a significant shift in both the development and delivery of DEI content to focus more on current events and virtual engagement.

ITS provides several account options for people who are affiliated with U-M in unusual capacities — for example, summer program attendees, volunteers, and vendors. In this poster presentation, we'll explain the differences among the options and what questions to consider to help you pick the best fit for your situation. Come see us live to talk through what's best in your individual case or any problems you're having today.

Following the Michigan mandate to transmit all prescriptions electronically by October 1, 2021, the School of Dentistry required a mechanism to deliver training to all dental school students, regardless of their location, and to support staff & faculty providers ahead of upgrades to the MiDent patient record system.

In January of 2021, HITS launched a fully digital gate approval process for projects. A simple workflow in ServiceNow enabling asynchronous approvals replaced an in-person/online meeting every other week requiring participation from 18 approvers or their delegates and a project manager or representative for each project submitted for approval.

Informatica Cloud is the cloud-based version of our current on-premise Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) product that is designed to perform large data operations.

MCommunity is being transformed! After over ten years, the applications lack many functions needed to support the University community’s needs.

Provide tips and processes to U-M Developers Community for integrating NameCoach: NameCoach API Directory — NameCoach API integration with apps of your choice by Kranthi Bandaru, SSO Email Signature integration, Upcoming plan for MCommunity NameCoach integration by Melissa Minuth and Salesforce NameCoach integration by Scott Berkley.

This past summer Ross IT deployed a new AV user interface as part of our larger classroom AV and IT upgrade project. One key goal was to reduce faculty frustration by providing a new more intuitive user interface for controlling classroom AV equipment in all of our classrooms.

Regulated sensitive data must be handled properly to protect the university community and the university. Violations can lead to harm for individuals, costly fines, and reputational damage for U-M.

What is "My Story"? The "My Story: HITS DEI Staff Interview Series" is an initiative, organized and supported by the HITS DEI Committee, that provides an opportunity to learn more about our respective HITS colleagues...

The Michigan Data Collaborative is a nonprofit healthcare data organization at the University of Michigan. We support care delivery transformation initiatives across the state, providing multi-payer data collection, aggregation, measure calculations, and visualization/reporting.

It is time to start planning for 2022 Hacks With Friends! Stop by to talk with returning chairs Joseph Lubomirski and Kenny Moore about 2022 HWF. What worked well last year? What should be changed? Do you want to build your personal network by joining the Planning Committee? Stop in to have a laugh and help us plan for a successful event.

This poster will give an overview of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) models can be integrated with Survey123 to detect objects in an image and auto-populate survey responses.

Phishing continues to be an initial attack vector for malware, ransomware, and serious IT security incidents in general. The university uses a variety of tools to reduce these attacks.

The Inter-University Consortium of Political & Social Research (ICPSR) provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community. 

Using technology to deliver instruction in multiple formats including, tools used for group work, scheduling Zoom meetings and office hours, lecture capture and digital assessment tools. Helping faculty build a community and fulfill learning objectives in a constantly changing environment.

The 2015 Value Margin Improvement for Supply Chain recommended that Michigan Medicine use existing enterprise tools (PeopleSoft and Epic), as well as procure additional vendor products to connect those tools, in order to improve supply chain operations.

MiQuizMaker is a tool collaboratively developed by Mosaic, CAEN, ADUE, and CRLT-Engin here at Michigan Engineering.

NetBASILISK, an NSF sponsored network security project, led by Dr. Eric Boyd, Director of Networking, is aiming to deploy a highly performant network security solution while ensuring that U-M research data flow transfer is unscathed.

Michigan Medicine has thousands of dashboards/reports each trying to convey useful, often actionable, information to the end-user. However, a one-stop dashboard that provides not only clinical outcomes, but also processes, HR, and financial data, did not exist. With so many sources of information, ensuring consistency, avoiding redundancy, and keeping up with maintenance became a nightmare.

The University of Michigan School of Nursing (UMSN) Clinical Learning Center (CLC) provides an environment for experiential learning for nursing students using various healthcare simulation technologies...

Omeka S is a web publishing platform designed for creating digital collections and online exhibits. It has been hosted by LSA Technology Services since 2019 as a pilot and became a full service in August of 2021.

This poster will display the work thus far from ITS Teaching and Learning’s collaboration with the Wolverine Pathways program in piloting a new tool, Badgr Pro’s Pathways.

Join us in a discussion of workflow tools and opportunities on campus. ITS Student Administration and the Office of Enrollment Management have worked with campus stakeholders to improve transfer credit processing.

While Tableau is often used simply as a data visualization tool, when combined with other University and IT resources, it can function as an effective and attractive frontend for tracking service metrics. In this poster, we in HITS Academic Integrations present an automated ETL pipeline integrating Tableau with...

We'd like to present a poster of our work on a soon to be released project called Canvas App Explorer. This is a new software that will integrate into Canvas to assist instructors...

For years, LSA has had a Loan program where students, faculty, and staff can check out technology for short-term use, including laptops and MacBooks, iPads and tablets, cameras, webcams, microphones, and more. 

In today’s world of ubiquitous technology, students are aware of and interested in their data privacy, and want to know who has access to certain personal data or why the data is collected in the first place.

Prior to the 2021-2022 academic year, MD and PhD students at UMMS used their own personal devices for school related activities in both the classroom and clinical/research settings...

Education innovation requires developing individuals as innovators by cultivating the skills and knowledge needed to translate innovative ideas into tangible, scalable science and health outcomes. To meet this need, we launched an 18-month innovation development program...

We will be covering NameCoach features on how to use them in Canvas, SSO Email signature, and Salesforce and use case(s). Our objective is to empower NameCoach users by sharing features of NameCoach and usecase(s) via poster for how to use features in Canvas, email signature, and Salesforce.

perfSONAR is a distributed, worldwide deployed, network measurement toolkit. Thousands of perfSONAR instances have been deployed globally, and many are available for open network performance testing.

For the last few years, academic departments at U-M have gradually transformed the way they administer placement exams, particularly for languages: from proctored paper exams (think penciled-in bubbles on Scantron forms) to digital ones taken on demand...

LibCal is a flexible, highly configurable cloud based calendaring and space management tool. Originally used by University of Michigan libraries for managing event calendars, it was adopted by ITS during the pandemic...

Over this past year, educators all over the world were forced to dive headfirst into new technology to bring their in-person classes online. Like many universities, the University of Michigan embraced Zoom as a primary delivery platform to accomplish this