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Canvas is phasing out Classic Quizzes and replacing it with New Quizzes, giving instructors more options and improved accessibility. It will be tentatively enabled campuswide on June 1, but Classic Quizzes will not be sunset until June 30, 2024.

During the ISU Foundation's first Forever True Day, scheduled from noon March 1 to noon March 2, donors can choose from among hundreds of funds to support.

Changes in enrollment and student preferences, students arriving with more course credits, rising costs and other trends have created a growing annual deficit in the college. The intent is to "chart our path toward a sustainable future."

The 25 Year Club will gather next week to honor 110 Iowa State faculty and staff who celebrated notably lengthy work anniversaries in 2021 -- a group that represents a combined 3,260 years of university service.

Adjusting the compensation structure doesn't automatically move any employee's salary, but it increases earning potential in the years ahead. The change will impact about 200 P&S employees whose pay places them either below the new minimum or back within the new maximum of their pay grades.

The office of the vice president for research needs your help to prepare Iowa State's fourth application to the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System -- known as STARS. The first three efforts produced gold results. The goal this year is platinum.

With the university's contract with DocuSign expiring this spring, the registrar's office selected another e-signature platform, Microsoft Forms' Power Automate, for its schedule change forms. The new forms go live in AccessPlus Feb. 28.

The draft plan unveiled in town halls this month is really a strategic process for yearly review, priority-setting and projects designed to propel the university forward while ensuring some flexibility with changing conditions.

Other Iowa State items on the meeting agenda include two new centers, an honorary degree, changes to public radio and a second phase for the Veterinary Diagnostic Lab.

The fifth annual college-by-college pitch off wrapped up this week with the campuswide finale, capping off two weeks of students stepping up to make the case for their innovative ideas.

When the state Board of Regents meets Feb. 23, it will review a 4% increase to parking permits and a 6% market adjustment to the Professional and Scientific pay matrix, among other ISU requests.

A team of ag and biosystems engineering students discussed their capstone project with project sponsor Bob Recker earlier this week in the Sukup atrium.

Iowa State has used meter ads since 2000 as a way to draw attention to a university event, celebration or achievement. Football bowl victories are the most common reason, but the month of March will bring the latest one to outgoing mail.

Through the Student Innovation Center's new consulting innovators program, eight faculty and staff are collaborating with the center to develop and deliver innovation programming, events and industry-sponsored experiences for students.

Senators heard results of the 2021 COACHE survey that highlighted colleagues, cost of living and academic freedom as the best aspects of working at the university. Compensation was the area cited most often for improvement.

During ISU Day at the Capitol, nearly 50 faculty, staff and students and their Iowa-based partners will share with legislators the university's latest innovation and entrepreneurship initiatives and examples of how Iowa State is preparing workforce-ready graduates.

Nearly 230 employees who created documents in DocuSign received "initiator" status this week for Adobe Sign, the university's new designated software for documents requiring electronic signatures. Others can be added by request. Employees who only sign documents routed to them don't need to be initiators.