IT is excited to announce the rollout of Blackboard Collaborate a tool you can use to lead virtual classes, office hours, tutoring and mentoring sessions, departmental meetings and more.

KAUST is moving to a new, completely redesigned version of Blackboard Learn – a much more user-friendly and mobile-friendly version called Learn Ultra.

As parents or guardians, we must make sure kids can make the most of technology in a safe and secure manner. However, many of us are overwhelmed and not sure where to start. Education is ultimately the best defense children have against today’s cyber risks. We must teach them not to get caught up in technology. Instead, just like in the physical world, we must focus on developing good online values and behaviors. We must establish rules for what kids can and cannot do online.

The Information Technology Department is excited to announce another round of courses provided to the community.

Highly sophisticated threats are targeting our sensitive information. One of the most effective ways to compromise our information is to target the very people who maintain it: YOU!

The KAUST IT Project Management Office (IT PMO) aims to build capabilities in the areas of project management, innovation and transformation enablement.

The Information Security Department at KAUST IT aims to enable you to work as securely as possible from your home. Whether you are at home on-campus or off-campus, you should be alert and aware.

Office 365 is a cloud-based Microsoft service that provides you seamless coordination with the tools you already know and use Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, and OneDrive. These tools provide the same great features as well as powerful collaboration capabilities in the cloud to work within your team and other teams across KAUST.

We need your help. To ensure a smooth work from home experience, the Information Security Department has stopped proactively blocking home routers that report malicious infections. Our systems now report a significant increase in infections and we need you to help to reduce these by protecting your home devices.

We would like to inform the community that we added new content to the IPTV service.

We regret to inform you that the below listed channels are no longer available on our IPTV platform.

The Information Technology Department would like to inform the Community that Zoom 5.0 is now available!

As part of its ongoing efforts to improve services, KAUST IT is beginning the process of phasing out Ubuntu-16 as the Vendor shall no longer be providing security patches for the operating system. The Ubuntu-16 scientific application stack will be discontinued on Thursday, May 27, 2021.

Join us for some live webinar sessions from our EMEA Academic Engineering Team!