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Thank you for reading this important message about the 3rd and final phase of the CaTS-ITS Resource Alignment and Retention Project outlining the purge of Pilot course data.

Why is this happening?
The CaTS-ITS department worked with the Faculty Senate IT Subcommittee during the March 2022 meeting and shared the need for a retention schedule for Pilot. A retention schedule ensures system security best practices, but it will allow for improved system performance and reduce storage needs.  

When is this happening?
ITS will delete courses that have not been accessed in the last six academic years on Thursday, May 4, 2023. Courses that show no record of access before the date of July 31, 2016, will be purged from Pilot.  ITS is working from a September 2022 database to make the determinations.

Going forward, Pilot course content will be kept for six academic years at a time and ITS will complete an annual purge.

What do I need to do?
Extended time has been given so that faculty and staff can download courses you may want to preserve. Instructions can be found at http://www.wright.edu/its-project.

ITS will not backup this course data.

Where will I store my courses and who can help?
Courses can be zipped and downloaded to local, network or OneDrive storage.
Please contact the CaTS Help Desk at 937-775-4827 or helpdesk@wright.edu if you have any questions.

We appreciate your attention to this important message. 

Recently CaTS has noticed an increase in Wright State members who are targets of an IT security incident called 'email bombing'.

What is email bombing?

Email bombing is when an attacker registers your email address with hundreds or thousands of mailing lists.

Why was I targeted for email bombing?

The most likely reason someone is doing this to you is because they are trying to hack your account or overwhelm your inbox with messages so that you don't notice an important email about fraudulent activity. People who deal with financial data are more commonly targeted.

A lot of the emails I am getting have an unsubscribe button. Should I click it?

In general, we don't recommend trying to unsubscribe from mailing lists. Most reputable services that do mailings, won't email more than once unless you have confirmed your subscription. Less reputable services may unsubscribe you, but then sell your address to other services.

Can CaTS, Microsoft, or Google block these emails from being sent to me?

Unfortunately this is difficult because the attacker is not directly emailing you. Instead, the attacker is likely using a bot network of hundreds/thousands of IP addresses that are browsing to legitimate websites, entering your email address, and signing you up to receive a newsletter. Some people want to receive some of these newsletters so we cannot globally block them. We cannot block the emails based on the sender's IP address because they are coming from a legitimate newsletter website. We can block the emails based on keywords in the sender address, subject, or body of the email but we run the risk of blocking legitimate emails if we get the filters wrong.

Questions?

If you have any questions, contact the CaTS Help Desk at 937-775-4827, or email helpdesk@wright.edu.

CaTS will be performing an upgrade to the Wright1 Card system beginning Tuesday, 11/22 at 5 p.m. through Wednesday, 11/23 at 5 p.m. During this time, the following Wright1 Card services will be unavailable:

• Use of Wright 1 Card to purchase items at any of the locations that accept this as a method of payment, including vending areas
• Printing using the Wright1 Card as a method of payment
• Lake Campus Residents' Laundry facility
• Ability to create Wright1 Cards of any kind (new/replacement Wright1 Card creation)

Door swipe access for current Wright1 Card holders and printing using a FOAP for cost recovery instead of personal funds (RaiderCash) will NOT be impacted by this maintenance.

If you have any questions about this maintenance, please contact the CaTS Help Desk at 937-775-4827 or helpdesk@wright.edu.

If you are teaching a course for Fall 2022, you should have received an email(s) from Evaluation Kit listing all the courses that will be evaluated, the evaluation type, and the number of students.

The dates the evaluations will be open is listed in the email. Please review instructions on how to verify your evaluations here: Video help on confirming your course evaluation.

If you are teaching Fall 2022 and:

1. You did not receive an email(s)
2. Not all your courses were listed
3. The evaluation type is inaccurate
4. The number of students is not correct;

Please contact the CaTS Help Desk at 937-775-4827, or helpdesk@wright.edu as soon as possible. A ticket will need to be logged with CaTS to resolve any issues, as the information is taken directly from the Banner system.

Please note the following reasons why a course may not be listed:

1. If the enrollment was less than three students, the course will not be listed or evaluated through this process.
2. If the course was less than 16 days, it will not be listed or evaluated through this process.
3. If the course is cross listed, only the “main” course name will be listed. (The “main” course name should be listed.)
4. If the course ends later in the semester, you will receive a communication four weeks before the end date of that course.
5. If the course happens later in the semester, the evaluations will go out toward the end of the semester. 

Results cannot be made available until ALL grades for all courses are submitted for the Fall semester. If you have any questions, please contact the CaTS Help Desk at 937-775-4827, or helpdesk@wright.edu.