eGrading Issues Resolved

Starting on Wednesday, December 12th, eGrading was not working due to several server problems, but this has been rectified as of this morning. While these issues were occurring, you would not have been able to accept grades into your grade roster in WINS.

If you tried sending grades from D2L to WINS before today but after the 12th, please check your grade roster in WINS. Several of the files that were in queue have been processed, so your grades may already be ready to accept in WINS. However, you may have to re-send them from D2L.

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

Google Sites

Google Sites is for staff, faculty and students to create their own website where multiple people can collaborate and share files.  Anyone in the UW-Whitewater community with proper ID credentials has been granted owner access to this service.  Google Sites is not intended to replace UWW Faculty/Staff Web sites but serves as a supplemental option for creating Web sites that may be used by faculty, staff and students at UW-Whitewater.

With Google Sites, people can work together on a Site to add file attachments, including information from other Google applications like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa.  Creating a site together is as easy as editing a document, and you always control who has access, whether it’s just yourself, your team, or your whole organization. You can even publish Sites to the world.

Everything is available to get you started.  Features include creating a page with single-click (no HTML knowledge necessary), personalizing the content or used a predefined template, plus the ability to upload files and attach documents.  Site creators, or anyone granted owner access to a site, can add collaborators or change their site sharing settings.

The tutorial is available at: Google: Docs and Sites or sign up for training at http://signup.uww.edu.

If you have any additional questions regarding this, please contact the Learning Technology Center.

Spring 2013 Course Requests Open

Winterim 2013 and Spring 2013 D2L course requests are now available in the D2L Course Request application.

As a reminder, course requests for a semester become available on the first day of priority registration for students, and course shells for D2L need to be requested for every semester you plan on using D2L.

Also, as per some of our previous announcements, the D2L course request application has been updated to make the process much more streamlined. For more information on these changes, please see our related blog post.