Below is a message from Central IT Regarding the Video Conference Pilot:

Penn State IT is pleased to announce that Zoom has been chosen as the cloud-based web conferencing platform. We thank you for your participation in the desktop video conferencing pilot. Your support these past eleven months helped us determine that Zoom best met all accessibility standards, the strategic needs of the University, and had comparable features to Adobe Connect and BlueJeans.

On Wednesday, May 31, the pilot-closing process will begin with announcements detailing the rollout of Zoom and next steps for pilot users. To coincide with those initial announcements, both the pilot website and Yammer group will be relaunched to better support the transition to Zoom as a centrally funded service available to all of Penn State. This pilot-closing process will conclude with the permanent shutdown of the pilot on Friday, June 30, 2017.

Again, we thank you for your participation. Additional information, guides, and FAQs will be made available to aid in BlueJeans users’ transition to Zoom via this Yammer group and email notifications in the coming weeks.

Sincerely,
Penn State Information Technology

As a reminder, Zoom documentation is already available on the Libraries Staff Site. Look for training sessions for Libraries Staff over the Summer and Fall as well.

– submitted by Ryan Johnson, I-Tech