Technologists at DoIT in Madison will be performing scheduled infrastructure maintenance impacting Desire2Learn on the morning of Sunday, January 7th from 8:00am to Noon. During this time, Desire2Learn will not be available. Access will be restored as soon as possible after the work has been completed.
As you are working on your Winterim courses, please plan accordingly.
If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
On Wednesday, January 3rd between 5am and 8am VBrick Rev (http://streaming.uww.edu) will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance. During this outage, we will be deploying the latest version of VBrick Rev.
Videos hosted on Rev will be unavailable during this outage.
If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please contact the Learning Technology Center (ltc@uww.edu).
On Wednesday, December 27th between 5am and 8am VBrick Rev (http://streaming.uww.edu) will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance. During this outage, we will be deploying the latest version of VBrick Rev.
Videos hosted on Rev will be unavailable during this outage.
If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please contact the Learning Technology Center (ltc@uww.edu).
Technologists at DoIT in Madison will be performing scheduled infrastructure maintenance impacting Desire2Learn on four occasions in the coming month. It is worth noting that three of these are during regular maintenance windows, while the other is on a Sunday morning. During these times, Desire2Learn will not be available. Access will be restored as soon as possible after the work has been completed.
As you are working on and preparing your Winterim courses, please adjust your course assignments and due dates accordingly.
If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
As part of the Canvas transition, there has been a UW-System team working on developing different course template options. The team recently surveyed faculty, staff and students from all UW-System campuses for their feedback on Version 1 of the Canvas course template. This feedback informed the development of Version 2 of the Canvas course template. They would like your input on Version 2.
Step 1: Watch the 8 minute video below. It provides background on the project and a demonstration of the Canvas environment and template. There is also a handout for the version 2 template available at: http://bit.ly/uwtemplatev2guide
Step 2: Test out Version 2 of the template. Use the following login information to try it out. Note: this is a “Student” role account.
Login with your Net-ID to get the access credentials
Step 3: Complete the survey by Friday, January 5th, 2018. The survey link is available inside of the Canvas course accessed above. Please allow for 10 – 20 minutes to complete the survey.
If you have any questions please contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center.
What is Canvas?
The UW-System Board of Regents has signed a contract with Instructure for their Canvas product. Canvas will be replacing Desire2Learn as our next Learning Management System. The earliest opportunity to migrate courses to Canvas is expected to be Fall 2018. For more information about the overall project, go to http://go.uww.edu/canvas-transition
The D2L eGrading process is now available for the Fall 2017 semester. This process allows instructors to transfer final grades from their Desire2Learn Gradebook directly to their WINS Grade Roster.
If you prefer step by step documentation, that can be found at: WINS eGrading Overview.
If you have any questions or concerns with the eGrading process, please contact UW-W Desire2Learn Support.
RESOLVED – December 14th, 4:30PM: Respondus Technicians have isolated the problem and the service is again stable. If you have any questions or issues with the Respondus LockDown Browser, please contact UW-W Desire2Learn Support.
Update – December 14th, 3:45PM: Respondus Technicians have engaged Desire2Learn and they continue to investigate the root cause of the problem.
Users may be getting “Unable to get SOAP token. The current Desire2Learn role doesn’t have the required permissions. Please consult the Administrator Guide for Respondus LockDown Browser” when trying to access the “LockDown Browser” tab inside of the Quizzes tool. This issue may also prevent students from taking exams via the Respondus LockDown Browser.
Respondus Technicians are investigating the issue and we will update this post as we receive additional information.
In preparation for the upcoming Canvas transition, we will be holding a two part hands on workshop in January 2018 to help clean up some of the old content in your D2L courses. We will provide a brief overview of common areas that can be cleaned up, and then we’ll dive in and help you clean out the closet!
Registration is required.
Thursday, January 4th (Hyer 210):
Tuesday, January 16th (Hyer 210):
Can’t make these? We are planning to offer additional sessions during the Spring semester.
What this workshop isn’t: We will not be talking about Canvas, or showing any of the Canvas platform during this session. The purpose of this session is to focus on and prepare your D2L courses for the upcoming transition. We will be releasing a Canvas training schedule in January 2018. Stay tuned!
If you have any questions about this workshop, contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center.
This Fall 2017 semester, the LEARN Center and the LTC co-sponsored a series of workshops on student engagement. In the second workshop, a panel of instructors from across the UW-Whitewater campus shared strategies and techniques for engaging students across different course formats (i.e., face-to-face, online, blended/hybrid). The panelists for the session were Tammy French (Communication), Kelly Hatch (Curriculum & Instruction), Eric Loepp (Political Science), and Choton Basu (Information Technology & Supply Chain Management).
One panel question posed during the session addressed how instructors can know whether most (or all) students are engaged in a learning activity, or if only a relatively small handful of students are more vocally engaged. The instructors’ responses to the prompt are featured in the video below.
The LTC recorded all of the instructor presentations, and the other panel questions as well. The additional videos from this panel are available for viewing on the LTC YouTube site.
Information about the Spring 2018 LEARN Center/LTC workshop series will be forthcoming on this blog and on the LEARN Center website.
For further information on the LEARN Center/LTC workshop series, or any other LTC professional development opportunities, please contact the LTC at ltc@uww.edu.
Resolved 12/18 3:30pm: Lynda.com services have been restored and are again working. If you have issues access Lynda, please contact the UW-W Helpdesk.
Update 12/12 9:00AM:
Lynda.com for UW-Whitewater is still unavailable. We have received word that the Lynda office is currently scheduled to re-open on December 18th. Currently, that is the earliest estimate that we have for when access will be restored.
Update 12/11 8:00AM:
Due to the Thomas Fire evacuations in California, Lynda Engineering and Tier 2 support are severely limited. They are currently working on bringing support back online as soon as possible.
Update 12/6 1:45PM:
Lynda.com remains unavailable. Technicians are working to resolve the issue, but Lynda.com support is currently limited. We have received the message below from the vendor:
Due to the devastating fires in California, which are nearby, our Lynda.com headquarters is closed. Some of our colleagues have had to also evacuate their homes, since yesterday. As a result, this is affecting key Support Services, like Tech Support and Customer Service. Teammates who did not have to evacuate are working remotely, so we have some support, but limited.
Original message:
Beginning on 12/1, UW-Whitewater users are currently unable to access and login to the Lynda.com portal. Lynda.com support is working on resolving the issue. As soon as we have additional information we’ll update it here.
If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please contact the UW-W Helpdesk.