All Staff Council elections are now open! Submit your votes for each committee. Voting will remain open until Thursday, April 30.
Direct link to online voting ballot: drake.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3UfYh3HHV02up2l.
— Michelle Huggins, All Staff Council
Faculty, final grades are due by 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20. Exception: Law School grades are due Tuesday, May 26.
You may enter your final grades directly in MyDUSIS or automatically send them from Blackboard to MyDUSIS (with proper configuration).
Due to the large number of students who have converted their grade mode from standard letter grades to credit/no credit, we are enhancing the Blackboard Grades Journey instructions, which will be available here.
The “Download Class Roster” link on the Faculty & Advisors tab in MyDUSIS will allow you to generate your class roster in an Excel document, which lists, among other things, the grade mode assigned to each of your students.
More details about final grade entry will be available soon. Thank you for your patience.
— Kevin Moenkhaus, Office of the Registrar
With the return of warm temperatures, construction on the sewer separation project is gearing up to get started again. Activity will be seen on University Avenue as well as along 24th Street between Carpenter Avenue and Forest Avenue where a new storm sewer line will be installed.
Installation of the storm sewer, bike lanes, and sidewalks will continue through the summer. Street paving of the north two lanes on University Avenue will wrap up the city’s project. Once the hardscape is completed, landscape plantings including installation of 86 trees, bus shelters, and other streetscape elements will finalize and beautify the University Avenue streetscape corridor.
— Kevin Moran, Facilities Planning & Management
Even though National Volunteer Week has officially concluded, communities still need your help. Visit drake.edu/volunteer to learn about many opportunities both here in Des Moines and across the globe.
Send us a picture or quote of how you are helping the community to servicelearning@drake.edu by Sunday, May 3, and you will be entered into a drawing to win prizes. It could be anything from donating canned goods, checking in on your neighbors, picking up litter in your neighborhood, and more. With your permission, we’ll share it on social media to inspire others to serve. #DrakeServes
— Amanda Martin, Community Engaged Learning
The office of equity and inclusion will be offering four development webinars for all faculty, staff, and students throughout the spring and summer on a variety of equity and inclusion topics including:
If you are working remotely and have a Drake-owned PC laptop or desktop, you may have noticed that your PC is not receiving Windows updates. If you have a Drake-owned PC laptop, you may have also noticed that Sophos SafeGuard is showing connection errors.
There is no action that you need to take as a result of these update delays or error notifications. Both of these issues are expected behavior and will resolve naturally when your computer reconnects to the campus network.
— Carla Herling, ITS
— Evan Favreau, Admission
The Bulldog Bucks deposit portal (eAccounts) was enhanced last week to include a single sign-on feature. With single sign-on, users no longer have to enter their credentials twice when accessing the Bulldog Bucks deposit portal from myDrake.
The deposit portal can be found by clicking “Bulldog Bucks” in the commonly used apps section of myDrake, or through the direct link: drake-sp.transactcampus.com/eaccounts.
Parents or friends can also access the portal to make “guest” deposits to an account. However, this will not be tied to the single sign-on feature and will function as it has in the past.
There is also a mobile application (eAccounts Mobile) that allows users to check balances on the go. To use the mobile deposit feature, users must first have a saved payment method set up in the web portal. Please note: If you’ve used eAccounts Mobile in the past, you’ll need to re-select Drake University as your institution to allow it to reconnect with the new log-in details.
— Sara Heijerman, Student Services Center
The next technology project request review is set for this summer. If you have a project idea for consideration, please submit it by June 19. You may make a submission by using our Technology Project Request form. The Submitting a Technology Project Request (How To) is available and explains how to complete this submission.
Want to know about the current ITS projects? Visit the project management section of the ITS website.
If you need additional assistance, please reach out to Kris Brewster.
— Carla Herling, ITS
