McGill is a founding member of , a consortium of Qu茅bec Universities whose objective is to provide infrastructure and expertise to the research community.
What services are offered?
McGill and Calcul Qu茅bec work closely together to offer the following services:
UPDATE SUCCESSFUL:
We would like to thank you for your patience during the recent Documentum downtime.
The scheduled upgrade has been successfully completed and all related systems are now up and running!
ORIGINAL MESSAGE posted on March 3, 2023:
Dear members of the McGill community,
Please note that Spectrum NG Sign-on mechanism was updated today, February 28th, to an enhanced, up-to-date version including 2FA (Two-factor authentication). If you experience trouble signing-in, please reach out to the and include the steps you followed and a screenshot of the error message.
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Dear members of the McGill community,
Effective immediately, please be advised that the application TikTok must not be installed on any mobile device (i.e., mobile phone or tablet) that has been provided to you by the University, or on any mobile device for which McGill covers the cost of the mobile service. If you currently have TikTok installed on your McGill mobile device, you must remove it immediately.
In accordance with McGill's Climate & Sustainability Strategy, McGill is moving to a new telephone system to reduce our environmental footprint related to our physical phone system.
We are transitioning to a softphone solution. Exceptionally, physical phones will only be available for the following spaces:听
Common areas not assigned to an individual 听
Conference rooms, labs, workshops听
Receptionist and Administrative Assistants鈥欌�痙esks听
Department/Unit offices听
As part of McGill鈥檚 ongoing efforts to keep our systems secure, McGill IT Services will begin on February 15, 2023, automatically uninstalling unused and outdated software that may contain security vulnerabilities from ICS-managed desktop and laptop Windows computers.听
How does this affect you?听
Hello,
The IT Services team has created 10 information drop-in sessions for the resource account sponsor community to ask any questions they may have regarding their respective account(s) and about the process moving forward, whether your respective account(s) should remain active, deactivated, transferred to a shared mailbox account, or transitioned to another type of non-personal account.
Please attend one of the sessions that best suits your availability.
An issue affecting myCourses is causing processing delays with course enrolment and unenrolment.听Users may not immediately see their updated enrolment records on myCourses.听
We thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the issue.听
An updated version of听It Takes All of Us听for all students, staff, and faculty听will be live and available in myCourses as of January 30, 2023. More details: /sv-education/
Did you know... McGill students have access to 20 GB FREE personal file space on OneDrive, Microsoft鈥檚 cloud file storage component of the Office 365 package.
Important: New OneDrive storage capacity
Please note that students receive 20GB of storage for McGill's OneDrive as well as 20GB storage for McGill's email (Outlook).
McGill-managed desktop and laptop Windows computers will receive an important security update beginning on October 31, 2022. Cisco Secure Endpoint, McGill鈥檚 antivirus software, will receive its regularly scheduled, monthly update. The process to update all affected machines will take approximately 2 weeks.
On October 24th 2022, IT Services will be adding enhanced anti-phishing and anti-malware protection to your McGill email and Microsoft Teams conversations. Here are some details on what鈥檚 changing:听
As of June Wednesday, June 15, 2022听McGill's Facilities and Space Maintenance System, FAMIS will only be accessible through a remote connection to a secure "containment" environment. This is necessary because FAMIS only runs in Internet Explorer, which is no longer supported by Microsoft.
McGill鈥檚 Student Directory, where students can choose to share their contact information with their fellow students or the community at large, will be decommissioned as of May 30, 2022. If you are a student whose information is listed in the directory, no action is required on your part.
The option to add or remove your name and contact information from the Student Directory has been removed from Minerva. If you are listed in the Student Directory and wish to remove your contact information before May 30, please contact the IT Service Desk.
As of May 1, 2022, the price of printing impressions (print and copies) using the uPrint service will be increased to the following:
From:
To: (for all paper sizes)
