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ICYMI: quick poll on the third party service agreements issue before the Feds

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-30-2023 01:16:15 PM
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EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: Third-Party Service Agreements and Contracts | EDUCAUSE Marg(aret) Knox mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director 512-322-3774 Office of the CIO Univ of Texas System Building The University of Texas System, 210 W 7th, Austin, Tx, 78701

RE: Qualtrics - Annual Increases of >15%

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-28-2023 12:24:26 PM
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In the UT System, we do have a couple of campuses that moved to Question Pro successfully. Now they did keep a few Q licenses going but in the main, it seems to have gone okay Marg(aret) Knox mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director 512-322-3774 Office of the CIO Univ of Texas System Building The ...

RE: Qualtrics - Annual Increases of >15%

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-28-2023 10:31:42 AM
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Is this increase driven by new owner (expected second half of 2023)? See SAP Agrees to Sell Its Stake in Qualtrics | SAP News Center After all, no one says we are living in 15% yoy inflation times... Marg(aret) Knox mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director 512-322-3774 Office of the CIO Univ of ...

Oracle renewals

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-23-2023 09:56:28 AM
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A colleague in another system here in Texas just asked me about sharp increases he is seeing in proposals from Oracle for renewal and also new products. These are mostly in the tech space of Oracle rather than applications. I suggested asking for a 5 year quote (but paid annually) to see if tht helps. ...

RE: EDUCAUSE comments on ED third-party servicer guidance

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-18-2023 02:07:22 PM
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A follow up from Jarret... Hi, All - EDUCAUSE members are welcome to join a Member QuickTalk on March 22nd from 4:00 - 5:00 PM, EDT, for a discussion of the U.S. Dept. of Ed.'s recent third-party servicer guidance and the potential problems it creates for colleges and universities as well as their ...

RE: ICYMI GPT-4 was announced yesterday by openai.com

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-15-2023 11:21:15 AM
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Cool! Off to read. ----------------------- Marg(aret) Knox Mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director, Office of the CIO The University of Texas System 701 W 7th Austin, Tx 78701

ICYMI GPT-4 was announced yesterday by openai.com

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-15-2023 08:31:00 AM
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And a featured customer is Be My Eyes. As always, a lot of marketing and hope, but I think there are real glimmers of progress that may be usable by some in the community and should get better as newer versions come out. But just like GPT-# (and its competitors), GPT-4 also has issues, just fewer of ...

RE: Microsoft appears to be planning on removing certain Teams features within 60 days of rolling out Teams Premium

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-14-2023 02:30:29 PM
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Steve, just in case it got lost, I wanted to repeat something I had sent out some days ago on this topic. I SHOULD have done it as a reply to my original post... But let me add, I don't know that it applies outside of the US... This is from a note I sent to UT CIOs.. I made a few edits to reflect ...

RE: Microsoft appears to be planning on removing certain Teams features within 60 days of rolling out Teams Premium

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-14-2023 08:06:12 AM
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Steve, from my perspective I agree! Fortunately, I issue a PO for 134,000 A5 licenses so I do get attention for UT and higher ed. Next week, we here expect to discuss next step. I don't 3xpect a quick resolution frankly. Sounds like your edu account management are like what I see in US, trying to convince ...

RE: Oracle Java SE Universal Subscription

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-13-2023 08:13:54 AM
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Oh no, but thank you Steve. I will look into it next week when back. Do you have a url for the licensing terms and which ones concern you? Thank you! ----------------------- Marg(aret) Knox Mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director, Office of the CIO The University of Texas System 701 W 7th Austin, Tx ...

EDUCAUSE comments on ED third-party servicer guidance

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-08-2023 03:32:00 PM
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Cross posted from CIO list, thanks Jarret for thinking of ITPSM Hi, All - EDUCAUSE submitted comments yesterday to the U.S. Dept. of Education (ED) regarding its recent guidance letter on "Third-Party Servicers" (TPSs). You can access our comment letter via the EDUCAUSE Library: https://library ...

RE: Whisper transcription tool for Windows?

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-07-2023 12:27:55 PM
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Thanks Sharon, Let me add a section I see in the OpenAI notice on whisper.... Pricing It's priced at $0.002 per 1K tokens, which is 10x cheaper than the existing GPT-3.5 models. Marg(aret) Knox mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director 512-322-3774 Office of the CIO Univ of Texas System Building ...

RE: Whisper transcription tool for Windows?

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-06-2023 08:54:55 AM
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John I enjoyed looking up Whisper, so thank you My usual idea is go ask the Microsoft disability help desk (either consumer level or if you have a Unified/Premier support contract, the enterprise one); they usually try to figure out such. The main page is at: Disability Answer Desk Support | ...

RE: Microsoft has delayed removing real time caption translation from Teams

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-01-2023 02:23:49 PM
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We are all a village to get our jobs done. You are extremely kind, thank you Marg(aret) Knox mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director 512-322-3774 Office of the CIO Univ of Texas System Building The University of Texas System, 210 W 7th, Austin, Tx, 78701

RE: Microsoft has delayed removing real time caption translation from Teams

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-01-2023 01:05:16 PM
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Honestly, I am optimistic that Microsoft may see the light. I know that the edu account management from Microsoft are working hard. If you have the chance, a note to whomever is your account manager can always help!! I also sent s note to the Microsoft student disability help desk as well... Thanks Sharon, ...

RE: Microsoft has delayed removing real time caption translation from Teams

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-01-2023 12:46:10 PM
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And I may have confused some folks. You don't have to have A5 to have Teams. I think A3 and MAYBE A1 also include Teams But at this point, none include Teams Premium. Marg(aret) Knox mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director 512-322-3774 Office of the CIO Univ of Texas System Building The University ...

RE: Mar 1 | A Preview & Discussion of Expected Changes in WCAG 2.2

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-01-2023 10:55:15 AM
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Good work, thank you for sharing Marg(aret) Knox mknox@utsystem.edu Executive Director 512-322-3774 Office of the CIO Univ of Texas System Building The University of Texas System, 210 W 7th, Austin, Tx, 78701

RE: Microsoft has delayed removing real time caption translation from Teams

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-01-2023 10:46:31 AM
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Todd I agree, the proposed removal is about translated captioning in real time. Not the language captioning (without translation) Personally my view (and Microsoft is painfully aware) is that this proposal is wrong for many reasons including: Is it an indication that Microsoft is backing off its ...

Microsoft has delayed removing real time caption translation from Teams

Posted By Margaret Knox 03-01-2023 08:54:00 AM
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Microsoft has announced that with the general availability of Team Premium (yes, it costs extra), that one of the capabilities to be removed from regular Team and put into Premium would be real time captioning translation. See Microsoft Teams Premium licensing - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn Our ...

step 1 : 4 important teams items now have an extended grace period (as Teams Premium went live on 1 Feb)

Posted By Margaret Knox 02-28-2023 10:23:35 AM
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This is from a note I sent to UT CIOs.. I made a few edits to reflect that I have since learned that this June 230th extension ONLY applies to EDU sector. ---- You all may recall many of us taking it poorly when Microsoft announced that when Teams Premium goes live, several existing Teams items were ...