Welcome to Blogs@UWW

We cordially invite the campus community use the Blogs@UWW system for instructional activities, to build communities of common interests, assist in quick and easy communication among committees, ad-hoc campus groups, and to facilitate collaboration.

The Blogs@UWW system uses the WordPress software. This system is managed and maintained by iCIT/Learning Technology Center. It has full capability as any public blogging systems, with RSS feeds so your postings can be broadcast easily. Your blogs can also be customized with access restriction for a private group if desired.

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Site News

Service Outage - 3/26/09

Published
by
david.delgado
on March 23, 2009
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Course services, such as blogs, podcasts, wikis, geturl (web addresses starting in http://geturl.uww.edu), Feed2JS (used to include podcasts and RSS into courses and this site), will be unavailable on Thursday March 26 from 5:00 A.M. to 7:30 A.M. for storage maintenance.

We apologize for the short notice of this outage.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Learning Technology Center at 472-1004 or ltc@uww.edu.

Planned Data Center Shutdown on 1/14: All Servers & Services Affected

Published
by
admin
on January 12, 2009
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The campus data center will be shut down on Wednesday, January 14 from 4am to 7am to complete electrical work that is part of the Data Center renovation project.  The work will require shutting down all servers and services.  Affected services include, but are not limited to:

  • Campus email
  • Campus Internet Service
  • Wired and Wireless Network Access
  • All UW-W hosted websites
  • Novell / Network Storage
  • WINS / TouchNet
  • Blogs, wikis, podcasts, Instant Messaging
  • VoIP
  • D2L may still be accessed via https://uww.courses.wisconsin.edu

If any services are delayed past 7am, iCIT will communicate this information via email and the SysStat web page, when available. You may also contact the Helpdesk at 472-4357 or helpdesk@uww.edu for the latest information.

This work is necessary to integrate the new air conditioning and fire suppression systems with our data center Emergency Power Off system.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Helpdesk at 472-4357 or helpdesk@uww.edu.

Monthly Maintenance

First Friday of every month between 5:00am and 7:00am.

Users may not be able to access the system during this time.

The next maintenance window will be on Friday, August 7th, 2009.

Getting Assistance

Contact the Learning Technology Center (ltc@uww.edu).