iCIT is planning server maintenance on Saturday, November 26th, from 7:00 a.m. to noon (CST). During the maintenance, web services (including the D2L login page), printing services, PeopleSoft, and departmental systems will experience intermittent outages throughout the morning.
Please be aware of the maintenance and plan your use accordingly. Thank you for your patience.
Learn@UW will be performing maintenance during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Thursday, November 17th from 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM (CST).
D2L will have intermittent service during this time, but please refrain from doing any work in D2L that may be lost during the outage, such as discussion posts, dropbox submissions, etc.
Learn@UW will be performing maintenance during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Thursday, October 27th from 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM (CDT).
D2L will not be available during this time frame. Please plan your coursework accordingly.
Since the emergency maintenance to the database systems on Tuesday morning, we haven’t had a re-occurrence of the problem behavior we’ve experienced earlier. Based on this, Learn@UW is believes that the cause has been addressed.
As of now, the service is considered stable. The Learn@UW Utility will continue to monitor the situation and engage with Microsoft support as needed. Thank you for your patience during this time.
There have been several related service outages during this week that have affected access to D2L. Learn@UW is working with Desire2Learn Inc. and Microsoft database technicians to find the source of the outages and work towards a permanent solution. Until we receive official word from Learn@UW, the D2L service’s status is considered unstable.
This issue resulted in the following outages:
9/15 (Thurs): 7:44 AM to 7:49 AM
9/26 (Mon): 9:24 PM to 2:29 PM; 9:59 PM to 10:05 PM
9/27 (Tue): 12:15 AM to 12:28 AM
9/28 (Wed): 1:12 PM to 1:25 PM
9/29 (Thurs): 8:34 AM to 8:40 AM; 4:08 PM to 4:18 PM
10/3 (Mon): 10:22 AM to 10:30 AM; 1:38 PM to 1:47 PM
10/6 (Thurs): 11:59 AM to 12:09 PM
10/7 (Fri): 12:35 PM to 12:41 PM; 1:17 PM to 1:27 PM
Future outages relating to this issue will also be posted here.
Desire2Learn has provided new documentation specifically for student (or “Learner”) audiences. We’ve edited this documentation to better reflect our instance of D2L, and it is now available for our students.
The documentation covers all the basic tools available in D2L courses, including Quizzes, Dropbox, Discussions, and more, and also covers basic tasks within these tools.
Please visit the Student D2L Documentation site to take a look!
Now that we’ve upgraded to version 9.2.1 for the Desire2Learn, we have some new features and updates we’d like you to be aware of, including an overview of our new login page and information sites. For more information, please see the “What’s New” wiki page.
In addition to the updating the D2L Learning Environment documentation for version 9.2.1, we have also added ePortfolio documentation. Please take a look at our D2L version 9.2.1 documentation site. (Please note that you may be prompted to log in when accessing this site.)
ResponseWare is a web-based polling application from Turning Technologies that lets participants use the devices they use most, such as their mobile devices and computers. Participants using smartphones, laptops, and other Internet-connected devices can respond in real-time to interactive polling questions.
This application can be used as a replacement for a clicker keypad, and a ResponseWare license can be purchased directly from Turning Technologies via their “Student Store” website. Students who opt to use the ResponseWare enjoy the benefits of cost savings and are not required to keep track of and maintain a separate clicker keypad device.
Both ResponseWare and clicker keypads can be used in the classroom simultaneously, thereby allowing instructors to accommodate students with and without a personal mobile device. To use both ResponseWare and clicker keypads, instructors simply enable use of ResponseWare within the Turning Point software that is already used.
For more information on ResponseWare, please see either the ResponseWare for Instructors wiki page or the ResponseWare for Students wiki page. For more information on clickers and TurningPoint, please see the Clicker Resources page.
Don’t reinvent the wheel — use the “D2L Starter Course (v.2)” developed to allow you to quickly leverage D2L in an online, hybrid, or face-to-face class format.
The recently updated D2L Starter Course (v.2) is a D2L course that includes a number of useful templates and other resources available for you to copy and modify for use in your D2L courses. The templates provided meet Quality Matters guidelines. Faculty and Staff who have used the D2L “Start Module” in the past will be interested in exploring the new resources available, including the following items:
We welcome any suggestions or comments about the new starter course. Your feedback allows us to continuously improve the resources we provide to support faculty and staff. For questions of more information, please contact the Learning Technology Center at ltc@uww.edu or at 262-472-1004.
To register for this course, log into D2L, click on the “Self-Registration” link (located in the upper-right hand corner of the page near the “Logout” link), and then click on the title “D2L Starter Course (v.2).” Once the “Self Registering Course Offerings” screen opens, click on “D2L Starter Course (v.2)” then click on the “Register” button at the bottom right of the screen. After registering you will see “D2L Starter Course (v.2)” appear within your “Instructor tab” in the folder entitled “OTHER – Courses With No Semester.”
Once registered, you may review the various tools and resources available to copy into your course. Please do not edit the original “D2L Starter Course (v.2)”. This is used by faculty across campus.