LMS

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. 

Oct 16, 2010

Reflections on Educause 2010

A number of colleagues (and myself!) attended the Educause conference (which focuses on Information Technology and Higher Education) in Anaheim, CA, the week of October 12. I enjoy the opportunity to attend this conference when I can because I find that the sessions tend to be around the larger, strategic issues that higher education faces… 

Aug 27, 2010

LMS Maintenance on August 28

Schedule Moodle: Saturday, August 28, 8:00am – 11:00am Moodle Some fixes for issues reported after the upgrade on 14 August. Fix some display errors with ncsu_* themes where the visited links did not match the rest of the theme. Also add a missing gradebook icon to the NCSU developed themes. Install the Respondus plugin for… 

Aug 20, 2010

The Gory Details of the Moodle Performance Issue of August 18, 2010

This post provides more technical details related to the Moodle performance degradation we saw on Wednesday, 8/18. Warning, there is a lot of technical jargon below! This is a narrative of the events as they happened. 

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 21, 2009

New Themes in Moodle!

Give your course a fresh new look with one of the NC State themes now available in Moodle! 

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… 

Oct 23, 2009

Flu-Proof Your Course: Assignments

An assignment is due in your course, but a student is ill and unable to attend your class to submit it. What are you (and your student) to do? One obvious solution is to use email. You could direct your students to email their assignments to you as an attachment. While this is easy to…