This week, key people from the Student Affairs Department, the IT Department, and the Section for Management of Electronic Case Processing and Documentation (ESAK) gathered to celebrate. A new process for PhD admissions is in place, and the integration between Nettskjema and the archive system Elements — which makes the new process possible — is operational.
The University of Oslo (UiO) is launching a mandatory course on privacy and IT security. It is designed to provide you with the necessary skills to protect our valuable research data and personal information.
Instructors at at UiO can sign up to find out if the content they develop is accessible to all students. They can now join the Testfest (Test festival) for universal design of teaching resources.
Copilot is Microsoft's AI which can be found in most Microsoft apps. Now Copilot also includes AI agents, small "helpers" that can perform tasks for you. Since the use of such agents has not been properly asssessed, UiO is closing down ther use.
On Thursday, October 2, the new version of GPT UiO was released. It includes several new features, including document uploads and the ability to create your own AI assistants.
The changes are not very noticeable for you as a user of IT at UiO, but it is an important change from a technological and security perspective.
Currently, UiO is purchasing landline telephony from SIKT, but SIKT will discontinue this service in the second half of 2025. Most others in the sector have already switched to telephony via Teams, and now UiO will join them. This is the most practical solution, and the move has been decided by the university director.
NotebookLM is a powerful AI-driven tool from Google designed to help users create, organize, and analyze content. It will be useful for both students and staff and is now available for free to everyone at UiO.
It has now been decided that landline phone numbers at UiO that have not been in use for the last three months will be deactivated. This measure aims to simplify the administration of phone numbers and ensure that UiO does not pay for more phones and phone numbers than we actually need.
Starting Friday, March 14, 2025, it will no longer be possible to use Viva Engage (formerly Yammer) with UiO login.
On February 6th, the two-factor authentication at the University of Oslo (UiO) changed to a new look that utilizes UiO's current graphic design.
Overleaf is a web-based writing, collaboration, and publishing tool for scientific work. It is designed to make the writing process faster and more convenient for those writing in LaTeX. From February 1, all students and staff can log in directly.
If you have a UiO-owned laptop with Windows 10, it will be updated to Windows 11 between February 3rd and 15th.
