A new Tableau report is now available to end users in "Enterprise" folder. This report allows users to customize worktags for finance data. Users can select worktags from the column headings and they will remain displayed on the page. Users can select up to 10 custom columns and those can be filtered from the details pane. The report displays beginning balance, activity, and ending balances for the worktag combinations selected.
The report can be found using the path Finance and Supply Chain Domain > Financial Accounting/General Ledger > Financial Balances Summarization with Flexible Selectable Columns . For those with access, the Tableau link is https://dataviz.rae.osu.edu/#/workbooks/9485/views .
OTDI’s Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) team has made a few updates to the academic unit structure where academic appointments are maintained in Workday. The naming convention has been updated for 55 existing Academic Units, such as “Medicine, College of” to “College of Medicine” and added 53 new academic units, such as university centers and institutes.
Colleges and units may now add academic appointments as appropriate to the new academic units for their faculty in Workday. Faculty will be able to see these new academic appointments in their Workday profile as well as on Find People once the colleges and units make the changes.
This data is maintained and updated by the colleges and units as decisions are locally managed. A list of the changes will be emailed to the HR Business Partners. In addition, you will see changes to the prompts in the “OAA - Academic Appointments” report in Workday; please be mindful during your next report run. This information is also being shared through HR Now.
Over the next several weeks, Microsoft is making some changes to Microsoft 365 , which include rolling out the new version of Teams . In addition, Microsoft has enabled features to allow user to customize navigation, change audio and video settings while in a meeting, archive Team channels, forward chat messages and more.
Whether you’re new to leading people or have years of experience, you have access to resources to continuously grow and expand your skills. A training on Ohio State’s technology platforms, tools and resources is available to help people leaders use administrative technology. This eLearning covers the tools needed to perform your work and manage employees. Managers, manager liaisons and administrative professionals can participate in the on-demand BuckeyeLearn training to review topics such as HR Connection requests, Workday basics, Microsoft 365, BuckeyeLearn and more.
Manage Participants allows instructors to have control over adding, removing, and changing enrollment (participant) information in a CarmenCanvas course. Manage Participants has replaced Add Participants. It can be accessed through the...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is rapidly evolving and the university is currently exploring AI tools that could be utilized in our educational, research and innovation, and health care endeavors. This guidance will be updated as new tools and vendors are brought...
A new Workday internal career site has tools to help employees easily navigate and apply for open opportunities across Ohio State. The “Career” section is the primary spot for information related to open faculty, staff and student positions and can be found by clicking the “Menu” icon in the upper left corner of Workday. It includes resources and training for career growth, job referral information, career level definitions, an overview of applications and enhanced search capabilities for academic and health care internal job postings. In addition, updating personal education and work history makes it easier to apply for internal positions. More information is available on the HR website .
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Share this information with faculty and staff in your college or unit.
OTDI recently enabled Copilot with commercial data protection, a secure version of the Copilot AI tool that can be used by university faculty and staff - it is now also available to students. Copilot is a chatbot that uses public online data to provide you with information. The main benefit of logging in with your Ohio State credentials to use Copilot with commercial data protection is additional security. In addition, when you log in c onversations aren’t stored and Microsoft can’t access any customer data.
The Workday "Effort Certification Status Report – OSU" has been updated to ensure terminated employees are included. Previously, when using cost center or cost center hierarchy with the Org Assignment Cost Center Hierarchies prompt, terminated workers would not di spl ay. Now, terminated workers will di spl ay based on the worker position data on their last day as active employees. This change allows you to use the Org Assignment Cost Center Hierarchies prompt without missing terminated employees. Please contact OSPGrantsAccounting@osu.edu with any questions.
