Wednesday, July 1, 2020

To help provide a safe working environment for students, faculty and staff, EITS is taking several steps to encourage social distancing, including:

• EITS staff in our computer labs are moving computers and other equipment six feet apart; shared equipment will be cleaned regularly.
• Plexiglass barriers have been installed at our Help Desks in the Computer Services Building and the MLC.
• All employees will wear masks while interacting with visitors to our help desks.
• UGA Mobile App updates are planned to help students and employees practice good social distancing and stay up to date on changes related to COVID-19. These include a focus on walking directions in the Map & Directions module, and updates to the home screen to include a link to the COVID-19 info page and a link to DawgCheck, UGA’s COVID-19 symptom reporting tool.
• Our networking and telephone staff have assisted in several office moves and in the move of the OneSource Services Desk from Caldwell Hall to Building Services, ensuring employees can work on campus while socially distanced. Since March, more than 250 phone lines were moved and more than 600 lines were set up for external forwarding as part of these office moves.
• EITS also launched Microsoft Teams in late spring, offering students, faculty and staff another tool for video conferencing and real-time collaboration while practicing social distancing.

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