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Video Conferencing@NWU

If you have to join an external video conference meeting, the host will choose the video conference platform (the software used to con­nect) and provide you with an invi­tation ( usually an email containing a meeting URL). The host will de­termine the appointment time and should coordinate a test session to successfully connect ahead of the actual meeting. If you are responsible for ar­ranging a video conference meet­ing, you have to choose the video conference platform, schedule the meeting time, and invite partici­pants to the meeting by sending them a meeting URL. You also have to coordinate the testing of successful communications ahead of the actual meeting.

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Book Computer Room Workstations

Bookings depend on the availability of workstations and computer room availability. Formal scheduled classes receive the highest priority. Click to read more

Are you moving from one building to another soon?

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Latest Cyber Attack - Petya Ransomware

Petya acts like the rest of the hijack-for-money malware strands — pay up the ransom these criminals demand, or lose access to your personal files.

Watch out for the "Con Game"

A social engineer runs what used to be called a "con game." Techniques such as appeal to vanity, appeal to authority and appeal to greed are often used in social engineering attacks. Many social engineering exploits simply rely on people's willingness to be helpful. For example, the attacker might pretend to be a co-worker who has some kind of urgent problem that requires access to additional network resources.

I think my computer has a virus

Meet the NWU’s Research Enablers

Traditionally employees in an academic organisation’s support services were seen as service providers only when it came to research projects.

ASAUDIT Autumn General Institutional Meeting 2017

Ransomware: isn’t going away any time soon!

A Closer Look: Ransomware Statistics 2016 – 2017

Ransomware emails spiked 6,000%  A study by IBM Security found that the numberof ransomware-infected
emails increased 6,000 percent compared to 2015. Attackers are trying harder to infect users’ computers right
through their inboxes. These emails generally have attachments disguised as invoices, statements, spreadsheets,
faxes or personal notes.  read more...

The e-Fundi platform is much more than chat and upload of resources...

"The e-Fundi platform is much more than chat and upload of resources, there are so many options that can be used for teaching and learning" Ruth Appolus lecturer financial health management UODL read more

Improving your Skills as Research Computing Instructor

The second South African in-person Carpentry instructor training will take place from 30 April to 2 May in Cape Town and will co-incide with the eResearch Africa Conference.

Guard your privacy when offline or traveling

IT@NWU services related to this topic is eduroam, VPN, Password Management.

NWU intranet is mobile friendly

The Intranet has a brand new look

The NWU intranet was switched to a new theme (“lookand-feel”) in the first week of October. This means that the current content is displayed in a new way. The new theme is a responsive design based on the bootstrap framework and it enables NWU staff to view the content of the intranet on their mobile devices. All the official NWU correspondence for staff, as well as important internal department specific content is available on the NWU intranet. It could be very useful to access it via your mobile device. Some of the content that was initially created in tables (before the theme-switch) is not optimized for mobile devices yet but we are in the process of educating publishers on better ways to present these type of content.

DIY Service Apps now available from outside the NWU

You are now able to access the services without being on campus or connecting via VPN.

Currently the available apps are:

Support for each app is provided by a specific contact person (please see 'Where to find more information on an app' below). New apps will be added as new functionalities are developed.

North-West University Becomes Software and Data Carpentry’s first African Partner

In November 2014 the first large-scale Software Carpentry event was run in South Africa as part of the eResearch Africa conference in Cape Town [1]. Since then 15 more Software, Data, and/or Library Carpentry events were run by the Southern African community across many disciplines and several institutions [2, 3, 4].