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New Cloud-Based Phone Service for UNCG Faculty and Staff Coming Spring 2021
Now, more than ever, UNCG faculty and staff need to be predictably and consistently accessible to our departments, coworkers, families, alumni, and partners. Because of UNCG’s unique culture of care for our students, students especially should be able to use UNCG-provided contact information to reach their instructors and UNCG business offices, whether by phone, chat, [Read More]
UNCG Softphones and 911
Only use softphones to call 911 if there is no alternative available. Due to technical limitations, when a softphone is used to dial 911 it transmits the campus address of the office where the softphone was originally assigned. Because of this limitation, a caller who uses a softphone to dial 911 must provide their physical [Read More]
Campus Phone Maintenance | Friday, March 6
Who: Faculty and staff What: Cisco Voice over IP (VoIP) phone maintenance When: Friday, March 6, 2020 On Friday, March 6, Cisco VoIP phones may experience a reset after 6:00 p.m. due to system maintenance. The reset should take two minutes or less. In the unlikely event that a phone does not restart properly after [Read More]
UPDATE (Resolved): Phone Outage
Update (Resolved): 11/11/2019, 6:20 p.m. Beginning at around midnight on November 11, UNCG’s phone system experienced issues that caused poor audio quality, intermittent call failures, and other service functionality problems. To correct these issues, system-wide maintenance was performed between 5:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m.on November 11. Telephone service on campus is now restored. ITS will [Read More]
Robocalls in Foreign Languages
It has come to the attention of Voice Services that multiple phones are receiving “robocalls” in foreign languages. Unfortunately, we are unable to block the calls because the numbers are masked as valid phone numbers originating in Washington, DC. Blocking the robocall numbers may result in legitimate calls from with area code being blocked. We [Read More]
Technology Training
- Intermediate Qualtrics – Zoom October 28, 2020
- Learning Technology Drop-In Session October 30, 2020
- Making Online Video Platforms Accessible for Everyone November 5, 2020