Fun with FERPA

(Published April 2025)

You probably aren’t interested in this, but the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) was part of a legislative response to what the public saw as a “records prison”—data about your past tends to define you—which also generated a “dossier consciousness,” which had them focusing less on “what [they] are” than “what the record makes [them] out to be.”

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Data Management Strategy: Implementing the Denodo Data Platform

(Updated July 2024)

NEW Denodo Service Page: Denodo, Tufts' Data Virtualization platform that is used for connecting all of the data sources across the university, is now available to Faculty and staff. See the Denodo Service page to learn more.

TTS is focused on a multi-year project to improve Tufts ability to get and use data. Our purpose is to provide the data and tools necessary for the University to operate smoothly. 

Tufts is implementing the Denodo Data Platform which gives TTS the flexibility to evolve our data strategies by providing:

  • An abstraction layer across all enterprise data assets. A single pane of glass.
  • Virtualized data access capabilities
  • Semantic modeling capabilities reveals the relationship between entities and makes the data easier to understand
  • An excellent user experience
  • Smart query capabilities
  • Seamless security and governance
  • A Cloud ready, data services layer

Learn more about the Data Management Strategy: Denodo Data Platform Project.

 

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Tufts Renewed its Licenses for MS Projects, Visio and Power BI

(Published June 24, 2024)

Effective June 30, Tufts is renewing our Microsoft licenses for Project, Visio, and Power BI. 

If you have a current license for one of these tools, it is important that you place your order after June 30 but within a 7-day period for a new license. This will avoid any interruption or deprovisioning of your license and ensure you maintain seamless access to these tools. 

 

NOTE: If you are away and don't get to renew within the 7 day period, you can place the order when they return and will not lose any of your work. Your license will be unassigned but once you place the renewal order then the license will be re-assigned.

If you have any questions, please contact the TTS Service desk at 617.627.3376 or it@tufts.edu.

 

 

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Best Practices for Managing Zoom Recordings Storage

(Published April 2024)

Spring is upon us and it's time to tackle the digital clutter that may have accumulated over time, particularly in the realm of video and audio recordings. 

In order to assist in managing the University’s Zoom recording storage, please cleanup unneeded videos and files from your Tufts Zoom account. Recently, we outlined new guidelines limiting storage of Zoom recordings to two years. As of October 1, 2024, Zoom recordings that are more than two years old will be moved automatically to the trash where they will remain for 30 days before they are permanently deleted. With these new guidelines in place, it's important for you to ensure that only necessary content remain accessible.

Learn more about Best Practices for Managing Zoom Recordings Storage.

 

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