RESOLVED: The streaming videos were unavailable on Monday, January 14, 2013 beginning at midnight (12:00 AM CST) and service was restored at 8:24 AM CST.
All streaming videos are currently unavailable. We have reported the issue to DoIT in Madison and they are working on a resolution for the problem. We will update this post with additional details as they are received.
If you have any questions regarding this, please contact: D2L Support.
Learn@UW has notified us of a reported bug in D2L involving TurnItIn (TII) Dropboxes that are copied/imported from another course. When Dropboxes are copied from a previous course where TII was already enabled, the new Dropbox will not be created on the TII side and submissions will not process.
Until we have a fix, all Dropboxes should be created NEW in courses, unless the source Dropbox does not have TII enabled. Learn@UW is working with D2L to get existing submissions processed.
If you have any questions or concerns about this issue, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
The Learning Technology Center is pleased to invite faculty and instructional staff to “D2L Day” that will be held on Friday, January 18, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 3:45 PM in Hyland 3101.
It’s a full day D2L Winterim Workshop with breakout sessions on D2L tools, such as quizzes, discussions, plagiarism detection, and rubrics. These will include a variety of hands-on “How To” sessions, tips, best practices, and new strategies to effectively use D2L in your classroom. View the full-day schedule here: Winterim D2L Workshop Schedule
Participants may now register for the all-day workshop or for individual sessions using the signup tool. The workshops are listed under “iCIT-LTC Training.”
If you plan to use student response system (aka “clickers”) technology in your summer course, please contact the LTC to register. Classes using clickers must be added to the Clicker Registration application so that your students can register their clickers and you can retrieve a class participant list for use in TurningPoint.
If you have courses you would like added to the Clicker Registration application, please provide the LTC with your course name and number. If you have multiple sections, please also specify if you prefer to have your course sections combined or separate.
UW-Whitewater also offers ResponseWare, an “app” that allows students to use their smartphones, laptops, and other Internet-connected devices rather than a clicker keypad. The reduced cost for students to use an app versus purchasing a clicker keypad can be significant. If you are interested in using ResponseWare in addition to using clickers, but you do not yet have a ResponseWare account, please contact the LTC for setup.
iCIT has scheduled a planned outage of IT services on Thursday, January 10th from 5:00 AM to 7:00 AM (CST). Services include internet, email, network, WINS, D2L, and other IT systems.
D2L access may be sporadic during this outage window, so please plan your course work accordingly. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
Respondus is a convenient tool for professors to create and manage exams that can be printed to paper or published directly to Desire2Learn. Whether you are familiar with online testing or relatively new to it, Respondus will save you hours on each project! With Respondus you can:
For more information on how to install Respondus to your computer, please visit the Respondus wiki instructional page.
If you any have question or concerns please contact the Learning Technology Center (LTC) for more information via email OR visit us at McGraw Hall Suite 120.
UPDATE; Learn@UW has completed their storage migration ahead of schedule and access to Desire2Learn was restored at 12:34 AM (CST).
Due to unexpected technical issues, last night’s Desire2Learn outage was postponed and is now scheduled to start on Monday, January 7th, 2013 at 9:30 PM (CST) and end on Tuesday, January 8th, 2013 at 10:30 AM (CST). During this timeframe, D2L will not be available. Please plan your coursework accordingly.
Just to clarify, there was no outage of the Desire2Learn system last night as we originally announced (previous announcement located here). We apologize for the additional inconvenience this causes for your Winterim courses. If you have any questions or concerns about the outage, please contact UW-W D2L Support.
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.
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.
UPDATE (12/14 12:30 PM): Learn@UW has reported that the issue causing the submissions in Turnitin Dropboxes to remain unprocessed has been fixed. However, submissions in the affected Dropboxes need to be “re-queued” by clicking on the box and green arrow icon next to each submission.
If you have any questions or if your Dropbox folders are still affected, please contact UW-W D2L Support for assistance.
ORIGINAL MESSAGE: Submissions in some Dropboxes using Turnitin Originality Check are not processing or are stuck in the “In Progress” status. Not all courses or Dropboxes are affected by this, and the problem doesn’t have a determinate source as of yet.
Learn@UW has reported this to Desire2Learn as a high priority issue, and we will be updating this item with any new information as we receive it.