WolfWare

Aug 13, 2010

NC State University Learning Management System (LMS) update

Contributions from: Dr. Donna Petherbridge, Dr. Martin Dulberg, Stacy Gant, Greg Kraus, David Howard, Jeff Webster, Laura Stephenson, Bill Hicks & Daniel L’Hommedieu Gearing up for another academic year while continuing our LMS transition from Blackboard Vista to Moodle, and moving toward a single point of entry (WolfWare) for our enterprise-level, Web-based instructional systems has…

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 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…

Nov 2, 2009

Report on the Moodle Moot, October 28-30, 2009, Orlando, FL

Dr. Martin Dulberg, Jeff Webster, David Howard, Greg Kraus, Jonathan Champ and I represented DELTA at the Moodle Moot (and Sloan-C) in sunny Orlando, Florida at the end of October. Because travel restrictions were part of DELTA’s budget cuts, we drove to Orlando in two cars and stayed at a donated timeshare property about three miles…

Oct 9, 2009

Elluminate upgrade on 10/10

During a scheduled LMS maintenance window this weekend, Elluminate will be upgraded to version 9.5. The most important changes to this version of Elluminate are: Improved stability and performance which will correct the problems we have been having with web service reliability. Switch to a different database for better performance and flexibility. Additionally, you’ll notice…

Jul 20, 2009

NC State to Migrate to Moodle Learning Management System

In April 2009, North Carolina State University’s Moodle Pilot Implementation Team submitted a recommendation to Dr. Thomas K. Miller III, Vice Provost of Distance Education and Learning Technology Applications (DELTA), that the university transition from its two existing Learning Management Systems (LMSs)—Blackboard Vista and WolfWare—to a new, rewritten version of WolfWare that is built upon…

Feb 25, 2009

Update: LMS Committees

One of DELTA’s goals is to provide an enterprise-level LMS service that meets the needs of university constituents for teaching and learning within a cost-effective and maintainable structure. In moving forward with the improvement and implementation of enterprise-level LMS services, DELTA is seeking involved participation from our stakeholders, as together we craft and implement the…