UPDATE: eClass Outage Cancelled

The outage previously scheduled for Tuesday August 28th, 2012 from 6PM until Wednesday August 29th, 2012 at 6AM has been cancelled.

We will be making the server hosting environment changes at a later date.

If you have any questions, please contact ctl@ualberta.ca.

Thank you for your patience.

Regards,
CTL Technology Services

eClass Outage Saturday August 18, 2012 - Sunday August 19, 2012

Dear eClass Users,

We would like to inform you that the eClass (Moodle and Blackboard Vista) systems will be offline this coming Saturday August 18, 2012 from 10PM until Sunday August 19th, 2012 at 12 Noon. We will be using this outage to make important changes to the server hosting environment.

Please do not schedule any activities for the LMS during this period. If you have any questions, please contact ctl@ualberta.ca.

Thank you for your patience.

Regards,
CTL Technology Services

New CTL Website

Dear eClass users,

There will some slight changes to the eClass login page when we launch the new CTL website on August 8. If you have any comments to our new website or experience any issues, please contact us at ctl@ualberta.ca

Regards,

CTL Technology Services

Blackboard Vista (WebCT) Decommissioning

The transition to eClass powered by Moodle is now in the final stage - our license to Blackboard Vista (formerly WebCT) is expiring soon and all new courses are being run on eClass Moodle. On August 31, 2012, eClass Vista will be shutting down and all public access to the system will be removed.

All new courses on eClass must now be created on eClass Moodle. Courses can be requested online using the eClass Course Creation System

All course content from Blackboard Vista will be archived and converted to Moodle, which will be available in future terms as archived content. By mid-August, instructors will be able to access this content to preview it and request it during the Moodle course creation process. We recommend that instructors do not make any new content edits on Vista after August 1st as these changes will not be archived.

Please note that all static content will be archived, but student data (discussion posts, assignment/quiz submissions, Vista email messages etc) can not be migrated to Moodle.

We encourage all instructors who will be teaching a course in the next year to request your course as soon as possible so that your content can be reviewed while eClass Blackboard is still available. We also recommend that all users who are new to Moodle attend our upcoming training sessions. The training schedule for the next few months can be found here.

If you have any questions about the final stage of our transition to eClass Moodle, please contact us at ctl@ualberta.ca

CTL Tech Services