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Author: Dr Martin S Dulberg

Mar 14, 2011

LMS: Updates to Elluminate and the Course Request Tool(Archive)

We wanted to let you know about two changes to our LMSs. 1) Elluminate Live has a new look! 2) Requesting Courses in Moodle has a few changes. 

Dec 14, 2010

NC State University Enterprise Learning Technologies update

As we complete the fall 2010 semester, we continue moving forward with our Learning Management System (LMS) transition from Blackboard Vista to Moodle. At the same time, we continue to make progress on a single point of entry for our enterprise-level, Web-based instructional systems for students and faculty (https://wolfware.ncsu.edu). There are a number of changes we’ve made during the fall semester, and several that we are planning that we would like to share with you. 

Oct 22, 2010

LMS Maintenance on October 23

We have a maintenance window scheduled for Saturday, October 23. This post contains information about the work scheduled to be performed on our learning management systems during that maintenance window. 

Aug 13, 2010

Moodle 2.0 Preview

I recently attended the Moodle Moot in Austin, TX where Martin Dougiamas, the founder and lead developer of Moodle, gave a keynote on the state of Moodle 2.0 and I want to share with you some of what is coming in this version. First, version 2.0 has been in development for a couple of years… 

Aug 11, 2010

LMS Maintenance on August 13 and 14

Schedule Elluminate: Friday, August 13, 4:00PM – 5:00PM WolfWare and Moodle: Saturday, August 14, 6:00AM – 12:00PM Elluminate We are upgrading to version 10 of Elluminate which includes the following features: many accessibility enhancements for people using assistive technologies the new Activity Window which allows a person to see in one location all the updates… 

Dec 21, 2009

What’s New in Moodle? (12/2009)

We made several changes to the Moodle server during our most recent maintenance window.  In brief, here are the changes: changed the URL to http://moodle.wolfware.ncsu.edu moved the server to a more robust clustered environment added several new NCSU based themes added enhanced course layout editing features added the Journal activity enabled the option for parts… 

Dec 8, 2009

Get Your Grades in Early: WolfWare, Moodle and Vista Outages and Grade Submission Update(Archive)

Due to a critical set of hardware and software upgrades that are being performed over the winter break, two of NC State’s Learning Management Systems (LMSs)—WolfWare  and Moodle—will not be available at some point during the grade submission window. Also, there will be a planned Blackboard Vista outage beginning December 21 at 5 pm. Please read…