NET+ Canvas: As you may be aware, Instructure has had three big announcements over the past month. One is the acquisition of Eesysoft, now rebranded to Impact, Another is the introduction of the Panda Pros effort, and the other is the announcement of their IPO. Links to more information on each are below. Please keep in mind, Internet2 (along with the NET+ Canvas Service Advisory Board) are continuing to work with Instructure in making sure the needs of the NET+ Canvas subscriber community continue to be met while the landscape here changes.
NET+ GCP: Check out our NET+ GCP summer newsletter (in the Key Program Updates section of our service page) for updates on community activities and opportunities to get involved such as “Help Us Get Creative with Teaching”.
We are working with the team supporting faculty for teaching and learning. Think curriculum, compute credits for class, Qwiklabs credits, etc.. We are looking to brainstorm with some faculty who teach using GCP (or would like to) and cloud teams who want to develop programs to make it easier for faculty to do so. If you or someone you know would be interested in giving us feedback, possibly piloting some things on your campus, please email me at bflynn@internet2.edu.
NET+ GCP Cloud Architect Training Pilot:
The pilot for the NET+ GCP Cloud Architect Training has successfully wrapped up! Congratulations and thanks to all of the participants! Thirteen people signed up for the pilot cohort, and eleven people participated actively throughout the entire time. When surveyed, all of the participants thought the training was very valuable, and they recommended it for others at their institution and for other institutions getting started on GCP. All of the active participants indicated that they intend to take the Professional Cloud Architect certification exam. Internet2 thanks Google and Pluralsight, our partners in this pilot. We will be reaching out to members to find out more about the needs for cloud training on campuses. If you’re interested in participating in this conversation, please email me at osreebny@internet2.edu
NET+ Clearspan Connected: Internet2 hosted a community town hall for participants to learn about the new Clearspan and emerging issues in unified communications.
The NET+ Code42 program had a major program update where all higher education campuses can now sign-up to get the benefits of the program and we have updated the pricing model to add in an enterprise license agreement option to protect all their knowledge workers at a significant discount with more details at the accompanying blog.
The NET+ Duo program had a webinar in May based on community requests to go over device security and managing policy in Duo with the recording posted here. We’re working on a special NET+ Duo campus only webinar on the Duo Universal Prompt and Duo Mobile Application Update where campuses will get a status update and being able to ask questions of the Duo Product Managers managing these rollouts. Please contact Nick Lewis for more details.
The NET+ LastPass program has a great new feature being released in July called Families as a Benefit. With Families as a Benefit, campus employees will receive a personal LastPass account, plus five additional licenses to share with family or friends, so they can have a safe place to store and manage their credentials.
The NET+ Palo Alto Networks program has signed up the first campus! We’ve also had 2 community calls to go over the details of how the program was setup and answer community questions. The recording from the first call was recently posted and the recording from the 2nd call is in the process of being posted. Details on the next call where we’ll have a campus speaker share their experience with XDR can be found here.
The NET+ Splunk service advisory board has focused the program on community engagement where we’ve been hosting monthly NET+ Splunk calls to talk about COVID19 one year in, Oracle database logging, managing data sources volume, logging in secure data enclaves, and more based on community interest. More details on these calls can be found here.