Bert's Alerts - July 17, 2015

The College of Western Idaho (CWI) Bookstore is running some great deals right now at both Nampa locations. Stop in at the Micron Center for Professional Technical Education and check out the cool CWI merchandise at rock bottom prices. All clearance merchandise (already marked down 25-50 percent) is an additional 30 percent off; everything from t-shirts (several styles from $3-$6) to fleece zip-ups, yoga pants, and more.

Visit the Academic Building store and get 75 percent off everything (except software, technology, and food/convenience). It’s a great time to stock up on your CWI gear before the back to school rush.

The College of Western Idaho (CWI) Facilities Planning and Management Department is excited to announce updates to multiple projects around campus this summer.

CWI's Ada County Campus Pintail Center and the Nampa Campus Academic Building received a recent update with new carpet installed in common areas. The Academic Building carpet installation is in preparation for a Micro Market food service similar to the one available at the Pintail Center. It is anticipated that the Micro Market will be fully completed and open for business in August.

Anyone visiting the Academic Building will also notice the north parking lot has been seal coated and restriped. Meanwhile, the first phase of the Canyon County Center parking lot project is also complete. The south lot will be open for parking on Friday, July 17. This means the north lot will be closed as work begins on the second phase of the project. Due to the second phase having limited space, a small portion of the south lot will be fenced off for construction staging. All cars located in the north lot need to be moved by the end of the day Friday (July 17) or they will be towed. 

If you have any concerns or questions don’t hesitate to contact Facilities Planning and Management.

College of Western Idaho’s (CWI) employee and student intranet, myCWI, will undergo an important update on Friday, July 17. The site is currently running SharePoint 2010 software and will be upgraded to SharePoint 2013 and the Ellucian Portal 4.1 software. 

Starting at 5 p.m. on July 17, the existing myCWI site will go into read only mode:

• You will not be able to edit sites, add/edit/remove documents
• You will be able to access documents/forms and save them to your computer, however you will not be able to upload the changes until the new site goes live
• You will be able to access ‘My Toolkit’

The upgraded myCWI will be available and fully functional the morning of July 20. More information, including training documents, important dates, and scheduled demos is available on the myCWI User Group.

If you experience any issues with myCWI or if you need assistance, please contact the help desk at 208.562.3444 or https://helpdesk.cwi.edu.

College of Western Idaho (CWI) would like to remind employees that Blackboard content from the semester prior to summer 2014 will no longer be available on the Blackboard Archive site after July 31. CWI conducted its annual Blackboard update and part of the process included moving archived content to an external hard drive. The change is intended to support data integrity on Blackboard. Faculty will still be able to access Blackboard content prior to summer 2014 through a Helpdesk ticket. Faculty are encouraged to export any content for which they want 24 hour access prior to July 31.

Please contact CWI’s Center for Teaching and Learning with any questions or concerns.