Change Type News Archive

Unfortunately, due to lack of faculty, staff, and student usage of this service, Marshall University will be discontinuing the Grammarly subscription by May 31, 2023. As an alternative solution, MU IT encourages the use of Microsoft Editor included in your university provided O365 services (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.). Microsoft Editor has been significantly enhanced

As of June 30, 2023, the university-wide subscription to LinkedIn Learning will be ending. While it is a great resource for skills training, learning, and professional development, usage of LinkedIn Learning by the university community has been very low. If you are interested in continuing your LinkedIn Learning subscription, you can purchase an individual or

On Saturday, December 17th Marshall University Information Technology will be testing our disaster recovery plan to ensure our ability to continue to work in the case of a catastrophic failure.  Testing will begin at 7:00 a.m. The only services available during the testing will be:  Banner, Internet (including 0365), and WiFi services.  The test is

Access to the campus-licensed versions of the IBM/SPSS statistical software is currently unavailable due an issue with software licensing. Marshall IT is working with the vendor to expedite the delivery of the updated software license keys. This issue is expected to be resolved by mid-week (7/13/2022). If you have an on-campus computer or use SPSS

Notice to all students, faculty, and staff who use Campus Cable TV Services Until power services are available in Smith Hall, Campus Cable TV Services will be unavailable.  This includes residence halls, academic buildings, athletic facilities, Marshall Medical Campus, Project HOPE, PROACT, Fairfield Landing and any location on the campus cable tv system.  

On Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 9:00 am, during Information Technology’s normally scheduled maintenance window, IT will be performing a network failover test.  There will likely be a temporary outage of many of our IT services during this failover test.  We will be using the test results to help improve our network and datacenter resiliency

Banner and related services will be unavailable this weekend (2/11-2/12) for planned maintenance.

[STATUS UPDATE]: The underlying issue has been resolved. AWS continue to work on a fix for the individual service. For more details please see https://status.aws.amazon.com/     Marshall University Blackboard courses, organizations, and tools is currently experiencing a service outage. There is an Amazon Web Services outage that is currently affecting access to Blackboard courses,

The following is a message from Information Technology to all freshman students and has been approved by the IT Executive group: Marshall University Information Technology (MUIT) is working to consolidate all users’ UserPrincipalName (UPN) and primary email addresses to be user@marshall.edu. If you are receiving this email communication it is because either your UserPrincipalName is

Description of the Incident: Starting in the evening of Friday October 23 and extending until early afternoon Saturday October 24, there were periodic disruptions in e-mail delivery services for members of the Marshall University community. The disruption was caused by a Microsoft enabled University-wide e-mail security measure – a circuit breaker of sorts – which