MSUM custom student course evaluation application retirement

The MSUM custom student course evaluation application was developed nearly 20 years ago and has reached end-of-cycle use. This tool will be unavailable for surveying students and collecting student course evaluation data after December 19, 2022. Course evaluation data will be available until Dec 15, 2023. See this link for additional information and to learn of alternative tools available to support course evaluations.

Upcoming changes to Zoom room functionality

Poly Studio equipment in Hybrid/Hyflex rooms will soon be modified so that content from the classroom system does not share to Zoom automatically. This was done to improve your experience of managing Breakout rooms from the Zoom control panel and to bring the functionality of these rooms in line with the average user’s expectations. To enable content sharing in these […]

WiFi Services Downtime Thursday, September 29

The Information Technology Infrastructure team will be doing updates on the wifi backbone and will be moving services over to a new system. These updates will cause a short disruption in wifi services. Both DragonConnect-Students and DragonConnect-Employees will be offline at 6:30 am Thursday, September 29, 2022. The move will only take a few minutes so the services will be […]

MSUM Students Contribute Data to NASA Mission

MSUM students Mara DeRung and Emily Watson submitted observations of an exoplanet transit to NASA’s TESS mission as part of the ground follow-up group. A transit occurs when a planet orbiting another star passes in front of the star, briefly dimming its light. The green line in the graph below shows the tiny dip in brightness of the star as […]