IT colleagues, On Saturday November 16 between 8am and 12pm EST, Instructure (Canvas) will be performing a regularly scheduled monthly release in the IU Canvas instance. There is no downtime expected for this maintenance. Included in this release are: Assignments: Preserve Group Set During Assignment Copy Discussions: Multiple Due Dates for Discussions SpeedGrader: Improved SpeedGrader… Read more »
Announcements
Short or small announcements that didn’t necessitate a dedicated mailing.
Kaltura Recording: Coffee Hours – EMS BeyondTrust – November 1
The recording of the coffee hours by Endpoint Management Services, originally presented on November 1, 2024, is now live. Chis Brown and his team provided information on BeyondTrust and answered live questions from attendees. For more videos, visit our ITCP Kaltura Page.
Pearson Tools Maintenance November 22 – 23
All MyLab, Mastering, and Revel courses, whether accessed directly or via the Access Pearson integration in Canvas, will be unavailable from 10pm on Friday, November 22 to 10am on Saturday, November 23 due to vendor-scheduled maintenance. –eLearning Services
Pearson Maintenance – November 2 and 16
Pearson will be conducting two vendor-scheduled maintenances in November on select Pearson courses, whether accessed directly or via the Access Pearson integration in Canvas: Mastering Health & Nutrition, Geology, and Environmental Science will be unavailable 1:00am-9:00am on Saturday, November 2. Mastering Genetics, Geography, Microbiology, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, and Astronomy will be unavailable 1:00am-9:00am on… Read more »
Kaltura Recording: Coffee Hours – EMS Windows Common Build – October 18
The recording of the coffee hours by Endpoint Management Services, originally presented on October 18, 2024, is now live. Chis Brown and his team provided information on the Windows Common Build and answered live questions from attendees. For more videos, visit our ITCP Kaltura Page.
Knowledge Base URL redirect mapping
Although Knowledge Base URLs from the legacy system will redirect properly for the next year to the Knowledge Base in ServiceNow, full redirect mappings are available in a shared KB URL redirect mappings folder which you can reference if you need to update websites or other resources. If a legacy URL has no redirect, that… Read more »
Namecoach, VoiceThread, Examity, and Jamboard Retirement
The following tools administered by the UITS eLearning Services team will be retired over the next several months. Directly impacted customers have already been notified. Please contact instech@iu.edu if you have specific questions or concerns. Namecoach (retires Nov. 30, 2024) For more information, see About the NamecCoach retirement VoiceThread (retires Dec. 31, 2024; VoiceThread will… Read more »
Canvas and Unizin Maintenance – October 15, 16, and 19
IT colleagues, This message is to notify you of upcoming maintenance windows affecting Unizin services and Canvas. Unizin will be conducting maintenance on October 15th and 16th to perform mandatory upgrades to the CloudSQL network architecture affecting production, SIT, and UAT environments. Tuesday, October 15, 2024, 5-7am EDT Services Affected: OrderTool (Both UAT and PROD… Read more »
Kaltura Recording: Coffee Hours – EMS macOS Common Build – October 4
The recording of the coffee hours by Endpoint Management Services, originally presented on October 4, 2024, is now live. Chis Brown and his team provided information on the macOS Common Build and answered live questions from attendees. For more videos, visit our ITCP Kaltura Page.
Pearson Maintenance – October 18, 19, & 26
Pearson will be conducting three maintenances in October that will impact a variety of standalone and variety Digital Learning Tools offered at IU: All Revel content will be unavailable from Friday, October 18 at 10:00pm through Saturday, October 19 at 10:00am. All MyLab and Mastering content will be unavailable from 1:00am-9:00am on Saturday, October 19…. Read more »