Website Updates

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Get the Events You Care About in Your Inbox

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Never miss campus events! UND’s Calendar lets you create a weekly, customized email digest tailored just for you. Select the event categories that match your interests and choose your preferred day to receive your email digest. Event Owners: This Tool Works for You Too! Encourage faculty, staff, students, and the general community to build their […]

Guidance on Online Forms

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In response to the Department of Justice requiring all online content to comply with WCAG 2.1 Level AA by April 2026, we’ve received questions about what to do with PDF forms. We’re actively working to find alternative solutions, but at present, this is our guidance.  Use Omni for Forms that Do Not Require Signature  Most […]

Meeting the PDF Accessibility Challenge

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The UND website hosts over 8,000 PDFs, most of which do not meet accessibility standards. With the Department of Justice now requiring all online content to comply with WCAG 2.1 Level AA by April 2026, we must act to ensure accessibility for all users. To address this issue, we’re exploring several solutions. Some universities have […]

New Resource Finder Component

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The resource finder component is a specialized feature of the UND website that displays information in a filterable card format. This component is applicable for complex data, resources and web content that you would like displayed on a single page. SafeUND is an example of a page utilizing the resource finder component. Users can sort data by […]

Event Parking Details now on UND Calendar

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An ‘Event Parking’  field has been added to the UND Calendar submission form. Use this field when creating calendar events to help attendees have the best UND experience on campus. Be sure to direct guests where to park by including links to the parking map and details. UND Events Calendar Info and Guidelines

Modern Campus Now Supports Shorts Video Format

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You can now post YouTube and Vimeo shorts (vertical videos) in Modern Campus. Shorts are only compatible when using the Embed Video-Basic snippet. YouTube shorts are automatically formatted to display vertically. Vimeo shorts require additional steps.

Modern Campus Open for Editing

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The Modern Campus (Omni) migration is complete. UIT published all sites and has not discovered errors. Please resume editing and publishing content. If you notice any errors or something not working as you expect, please submit a ticket to UIT.

Modern Campus (Omni) Migration Delayed

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Modern Campus (Omni) is delayed in the migration. We are awaiting word from Modern Campus on the status. The website is still locked. The WordPress/MailPoet migration is complete. If you notice anything that looks strange, doesn’t work, or is slow, please submit a ticket. UIT is in the hypercare phase until July 15 and needs […]

Modern Campus (Omni), WordPress, and MailPoet Upgrades

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UIT is transitioning Modern Campus (Omni), WordPress, and MailPoet from NDUS hosted servers to Cloud hosting environments to provide better performance, usability and enhanced security. There will be downtime that you must prepare for; otherwise, you should notice the minimal impact of this transition. Modern Campus (OMNI) will be locked June 24-28: The website backend […]

Omni Form Update

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We learned that UND’s email system is blocking file uploads from web forms since April 30, 2024. This means that form owners have not been notified via email if someone submitted a form response. We believe this is only the case if your form includes a file attachment function. UIT has put in a ticket […]