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Benchmarks provides news about Information Technology resources and services available to the whole campus. As news becomes available articles will appear here to keep you informed of new developments and opportunites to use online systems and services to accomplish your work at UNT, whether that be as a student, faculty member or employee.


Lynda.com is now LinkedIn Learning

August 19, 2019

The free online learning and professional development platform used by University of North Texas System faculty, staff, and students was upgraded on August 19 when Lynda.com became LinkedIn Learning. LinkedIn Learning will remain free to the UNT world, while offering a more intuitive interface and more content recommendations while retaining Lynda.com’s ever-growing, 10,000-plus item course library, transcripts, and exercise files.

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UNT Qualtrics Support Web Page is now Available

June 25, 2019

In 2018, University Information Technology, UIT, took over management of the Qualtrics Survey platform subscription that serves the data collection needs of the UNT campus. Qualtrics is an easy to use survey platform that is available to all students, faculty, and staff via the my.unt.edu platform as well as via a direct login. While it's easy to get started on Qualtrics and create simple surveys, there are also many other advanced features, such as authentication, branching, and survey panel management that can be used to create a survey tool that best supports the data collection effort. UIT has created a Qualtrics support page, it.unt.edu/qualtrics, to provide a starting point for accessing Qualtrics and to offer links to the many learning and support resources that Qualtrics provides as part of UNT's subscription to the service.

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