Desire2Learn, our learning management system, is scheduled for an outage in order for Learn@UW to transition their servers to a new storage solution. The outage will start on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013 at 9:30 PM (CST) and end on Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 at 10:30 AM (CST). During this timeframe, D2L will not be available.

This will greatly affect Winterim courses, so please plan your course work accordingly. It is also suggested that you end any dropboxes, quizzes, or other deadlines a half hour before the outage’s start time (i.e., 9:00 PM CST) if there are items due on that day.

Please note that even though this is during the same window we would normally take an upgrade to a newer version of D2L, that is not the case for this outage. This is not an upgrade, and D2L will not be changing dramatically during the Learn@UW server transition.

If you have any questions or concerns about the outage, please contact UW-W D2L Support.