On Sunday, June 29th, from 6:00 AM to 3:00 PM, ICIT will be performing necessary system maintenance to network file storage, including Stori, faculty, staff, and student websites. D2L will be available during this maintenance. However, this outage may affect any courses that have items, such as Content links, that link out to any of these storage solutions.
For more information on the maintenance and which file storage services will be affected, please see the ICIT Outage Announcement.
From roughly 9:50 AM to 10:10 AM today (Monday June 23rd, 2014), users may have received errors when trying to log in to Desire2Learn. At this time, the issue has been resolved.
If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
SERVICE RESTORED (3:15 A.M. Thursday): The D2L service has been restored, and is once again available
Thank you for your patience during this outage. If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
UPDATE (8:30 P.M.): Work continues to restore the D2L service.
UPDATE (3:30 P.M.): Power has been restored to the Madison Data Center and work is underway to restore services. At this time, Learn@UW is estimating that the D2L service will be available in 2 to 4 hours pending successful testing and service verification.
We will provide updates on this news item as we receive additional information about the service availability.
UPDATE (1:45 P.M.): At this time, the work continues on restoring power to the Madison Data Center. In conjunction with this mornings inclement weather, there was also a catastrophic battery failure in the Madison Data Center. There is currently no ETA on when services will be restored. We will provide another update around 3:30 P.M. today.
UPDATE (10:00 A.M.): Madison campus technicians are still working to gather information and restore the power and services. There is currently no ETA on when services will be restored.
Original Message: Starting at approximately 7:50 A.M. (CT) today, Learn@UW has lost power due to severe weather. This affects any service hosted from the Madison campus, including Desire2Learn. Learn@UW and their technicians are working on restoring services as soon as possible.
We apologize for the inconvenience. We will be updating this news item as we receive more information.
For this post, Eric Mueller from the Center for Students with Disabilities has joined the LTC Instructional Resources blog as a guest author.
Since 2002, students enrolling in at least one online class has increased 22% according to the Journal of Post-Secondary Education and Disability (2011). Due to this increase in online enrollment, it is imperative that faculty and staff understand the unique needs of all student learners, regardless of abilities.
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to participate in the UW-W Learning Technology Center’s 2014 Summer Institute, and I presented on Online Accessibility and Universal Design. During this presentation, I was able to demonstrate and promote the valuable components of Universal Design (UD) and Universal Design of Learning (UDL).
Participants in the 2014 Summer Institute also experienced disability simulations, and I demonstrated specific assistive technology that students at UW-Whitewater are utilizing to make online content accessible (ZoomText and Kurzweil 3000) and provided tips in creating accessible documents for students.
To view Eric’s presentation on Online Accessibility and Universal Design given at the 2014 Summer Institute, please watch the video below.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact the UW-W Learning Technology Center.
Learn@UW has scheduled server maintenance for the UW System on Saturday, June 14th from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM (CT). During this timeframe, the Desire2Learn service will not be available, and outage pages will be posted to inform users who may attempt to access D2L.
The outage is expected to end during the scheduled end time, but we will update this news item in the event that the necessary maintenance takes longer than scheduled.
Thank you for your patience with this. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
A network connectivity issue caused a brief outage in D2L today (6/4) from approximately 10:00 AM to 10:06 AM (CT). Users would have been unable to login to D2L and may have been “kicked out” of their session if already logged in.
The issue has been resolved, and as of 10:06 AM, users should be able to login to D2L. If you have any questions or concerns about this outage, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
UPDATE (2:00 PM): As of 2:00 PM today, June 5th, the D2L service has been restored. However, users may experience some occasional slowness with some tools. If you have any additional questions or concerns, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
UPDATE (9:50 AM): Learn@UW has again notified us that the work will extend the outage end time to 2:00 PM (CT) today, June 5th. D2L will still not be available during the extended timeframe.
UPDATE (8:45 AM): Learn@UW has notified us that the scheduled work for the upgrade is taking longer than expected, and the outage end time has been extended to 12:00 PM (CT) today, June 5th. D2L will still not be available during this extended timeframe. We apologize for the inconvenience this will cause, and we will update this news item with more information as we receive it.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: This is a reminder that Desire2Learn is scheduled for an upgrade to version 10.3. The upgrade outage will start on Wednesday, June 4th, 2014 at 9:30 PM (CT) and end on Thursday, June 5th, 2014 at 10:30 AM (CT). During this timeframe, D2L will not be available. Please plan your course work accordingly.
Starting at approximately 9:40 AM this morning (5/27) and ending at approximately 11:15 AM, Desire2Learn experienced an intermittent service outage. Impact of this issue was inconsistent, and affected users may have experienced errors such as “HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error” or seen other anomalous behavior.
If you are still experiencing errors or have any questions about the outage, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
Desire2Learn is scheduled for an upgrade to version 10.3. The upgrade outage will start at 9:30 PM on Wednesday, June 4th, 2014 and end at 10:30 AM on Thursday, June 5th, 2014 (all times CT).
During this upgrade, D2L will NOT be available. This outage and upgrade will greatly affect Summer courses, so please plan your course work accordingly.
In addition, Learn@UW has scheduled server maintenance on Saturday, June 14th from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM. Desire2Learn will not be accessible during this window.
We have a “What’s New” video for students that highlights some of the changes that are coming with the upgrade.
If you have any questions about the D2L upgrade, please Contact UW-W D2L Support.
A digital badge is an earned credential, which validates a person’s specific accomplishment, knowledge, or skill. “Badging” can be used to supplement letter grades, combat grade inflation, instill motivation to advance their level of competency, and showcase learning outside of the formal classroom.
This presentation introduces the basic principles of badging, models of badging, and ways you can use badging in your course.