2025-07 | July Franklin College Technology Update

• Google’s NotebookLM and Gemini products are now available for UGA use and include data protection agreements to ensure security and prevent learning on institutional data.

• Deadline to report changes to Microsoft add-on licensed products to the IT Contracts and Licensing Agreements team at EITS.

• Additional migration workshops for the new QuestionPro enterprise survey tool.

  • QuestionPro Migration Workshops

• Fall campus-wide bi-annual network maintenance. This will impact all campus networks and connectivity.

• Provost’s Office Launches Artificial Intelligence (AI) Information Hub:

  • AI Hub
    
    

• Question Pro Survey tool available to Faculty and Students:

  • QuestionPro Survey Tool

• Additional campus-wide news and events:

  • EITS/VPIT Status and Activity Reports

We are pleased to introduce and welcome Jessie Whitten to our talented Client Services Team. Jessie starts on July 7th and will be helping to support our units and clients within the vicinity of the Davison Life Sciences facilities. We also want to take the opportunity to thank Debbie Tonks, our Associate Director, for her years of service. Debbie will be retiring from Franklin College at the end of July and was recognized with the Lifetime Bennie Achievement Award on Friday, July 18th.

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Debbie Tonks Receives Lifetime Bennie Achievement Award

Representing Franklin College at the annual Drupal Camp in Asheville, long-time employee Michael Brewer presents to an interested audience on the process of migrating to Drupal 11. (Read more)

Your data are pivotal, work with us to learn how it’s protected and to ensure that nothing is missed. (Read more)

The OIT Leadership Team continues to meet with department and unit leadership on the remaining endpoints in the college which need to be addressed for security compliance. Work is well underway in working with units to bring systems up to date or develop plans to otherwise mitigate these risks as they pertain to the campus Minimum Security Standards Policy.

With the increasing need to have more versatile telephone solutions to meet the modern challenges of a versatile work environment, UGA is moving away from the legacy fixed phones and copper lines to a modern digital and network-based telephone system that can work from anywhere, cost significantly less, and can be more easily managed. If your unit has not already, please reach out to your Departmental Telephone Representative (DTR) to discuss the process to migrate your unit’s phones. We have created an information page which also contains more resources and details.