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Moodle Upgrade and Downtime January 7 and 8

January 4, 2021

The ATSI team will be performing important maintenance on the Moodle platform Thursday January 7 and Friday January 8. During this maintenance period, Moodle will be upgraded to version 3.9, ensuring better stability as well as adding enhancements for the Spring 2021 term. While the maintenance is being performed, users will not be able to access the Moodle site.

Interested in learning more about what’s to come in Moodle 3.9? Visit our Techtalk blog article for notes on key changes as well as links to additional informational resources.

Filed Under: 01-04-2021, Academic Technology Services, Academics Tagged With: ATSI, Moodle

Downtime for Moodle Upgrade January 7th and 8th

December 18, 2020

Academic Technology Services and Innovation will be performing important upgrade work on the Moodle platform during the first week of January. These upgrades will bring Moodle up to version 3.9 which will help improve Moodle performance and security as we prepare for the upcoming spring term.

ATSI will be sending out regular updates on the upcoming upgrade, so please stay tuned to UpBeat and PilotsUP for additional info over the coming weeks.

ATSI can be reached via email (atsi@up.edu) with any questions.

Filed Under: 12-21-2020, Academic Technology Services, Academics Tagged With: ATSI, Moodle

Moodle Update Downtime, June 18

June 12, 2020

Academic Technology Services and Innovation staff will be installing Moodle updates to make sure we have the latest security and bug fixes on Thursday, June 18, at 9 p.m. We expect to have Moodle available again by 10 p.m.

Please direct any questions or concerns to atsi@up.edu.

Filed Under: 06-15-2020, Academics, Information Services, Uncategorized Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations, Information Services, Moodle

Moodle Updates from ATSI

April 3, 2020

The following tips and updates are offered by academic technology services and innovation, according to Ben Kahn:

Assignment feedback annotation: Moodle has an ability for teachers to grade and annotate student papers from right in your web browser. With the large increase in assignment submissions in Moodle, the Annotate PDF feedback feature in Moodle assignments will now be opt-in instead of turned on by default. This will help ATSI manage our compute resources and make the grading process smoother for everyone, whether you are grading essays in your browser or using assignments to collect other types of files (like images, computer coding files, etc…). If you want to use the in-browser annotation feature, just enable it when setting up your assignment by checking “Annotate PDF” under the Feedback Types heading. See step 4 of the Moodle guide for adding assignments for detailed instructions.

Timezone settings: With many students now logging in to our courses from across the country or even the world, did you know anyone can change their timezone settings so that Moodle shows due dates, etc. in the correct time for them? It’s easy. Please share this Moodle Guide with any students who are learning at distance in other time zones. 

 As always, please reach out to atsi@up.edu with any questions.

Filed Under: 04-06-2020, Academic Technology Services, Academics Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations, Ben Kahn, Moodle

Moodle Drop-in Hours Before Spring Term

January 3, 2020

Falling drop of rain with blue earth image and water splash in crown shape

Working on getting your spring Moodle course set-up before the new semester starts? Drop by Franz 33 any time between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Monday, January 6 through Thursday Jan 9.  Academic technology services and innovation staff will be there to help with issues or questions big and small.

Come for help with setting up online assignments or quizzes, getting your gradebook squared away, get an introduction to some of our great new integrated tools, or just say hello and happy new year.

For more information contact Ben Kahn, academic technology services and innovation, at kahn@up.edu.

Filed Under: 01-06-2020, 12-23-2019, Academics, Campus Services, Information Services Tagged With: Academic Technology Services & Innovations, Ben Kahn, Moodle

Information Services: Moodle Downtime on August 14

August 9, 2019

Moodle will be down on the evening of Wednesday, August 14 (8 p.m.) until 8 a.m. on Thursday, August 15, for an annual system update. Information service will be updating to Moodle version 3.6. The new version includes improvements to performance, privacy, and security, as well as a modern course dashboard.

For real-time updates or to subscribe to email alerts for UP systems status and outages please visit our System Status page.

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Any questions or concerns? Please contact atsi@up.edu.

 

 

Filed Under: 07-29-2019, 08-05-2019, 08-12-2019, Academics, Campus Services, Information Services Tagged With: Information Services, Moodle

Submit Butine Proposals Through Moodle

January 13, 2017

wootton-copy-1The Committee on Teaching and Scholarship cordially invites all regular faculty to submit proposals to receive funding from the Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund. Faculty can download Butine application materials, review selection criteria, and consult the timeline for applications through the Teaching and Scholarship Moodle site. Submission of post-Butine reports, new Butine applications, and all supporting letters are also through the Moodle site. The committee’s deadline for submission through Moodle and the applicants’ respective department chairs (if CAS) and deans is no later than noon on Friday, February 10 (it is the applicant’s responsibility to be aware of any different internal department or school deadlines). Please note also that applicants must discuss their Butine proposals with their respective deans prior to submitting applications for consideration.

Please contact Aaron Wootton (TAS@up.edu) for further information.

Filed Under: 01-16-2017, Academics, Teaching & Scholarship Tagged With: Aaron Wootton, Arthur Butine Faculty Development Fund, Moodle, Teaching and Scholarship

TLC Tip of the Week

April 8, 2016

kahnIt’s getting to be that time of the semester – projects are wrapping up, finals being taken, and there are crucial grades to be entered. This week’s Teaching and Learning Collaborative tip offers faculty a few helpful pointers for entering grades into Moodle. This short video offers three easy tips to make entering grades into Moodle efficient and hassle-free.

A reminder: all faculty can contribute to the Teaching & Learning Collaborative. Those who have ideas for resources the TLC could provide to promote excellent teaching and professional development for UP faculty, or questions to be tackled, are asked to contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.

For additional training on Moodle or any other academic technology, contact Ben Kahn, information services, at kahn@up.edu. For more handy tech tips around technology at UP, please visit the UPTechTips blog.

Filed Under: 04-11-2016, Academics Tagged With: Ben Kahn, Karen Eifler, Moodle, Teaching & Learning Collaborative

Moodle training and drop-in hours

August 21, 2015

moodleicon copyAcademic Technology Services (ATS) have completed upgrades to UP’s Moodle environment. To support faculty with their Fall ’15 Moodle courses, ATS will be staffing drop-in lab hours for support and training. We will be available in Franz Hall 10 the week prior to classes starting and the first week of classes Monday to Thursday.

Drop In Hours:

Monday August 24 – Thursday, August 27 from 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.

Monday August 31 – Thursday, September 3 from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

After September 7, you can attend a scheduled Moodle training.To reserve your spot in an upcoming training session, please visit: https://sites.up.edu/vlc/workshops/

If you can’t make one of the reserved times please contact Ben Kahn at kahn@up.edu to schedule a one-on-one professional development for Moodle and other academic technologies.

Filed Under: 08-24-2015, Academic Technology Services, Academics Tagged With: Academic Technology Services, Ben Kahn, Moodle

New Version of Moodle To Launch August 19

July 24, 2015

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staff & faculty portraits

Academic technology services will launch the new version of Moodle on August 19, 2015. This new version of Moodle brings a fresh new look, simplified gradebook, Celly integration, improved turnitin.com assignments, and much more. it is also designed to work much better on mobile devices.

As part of the upgrade, academic technology services built new servers with full redundancy and enhancements to improve performance, and will not migrate 100 percent of content from the old server. To request that a prior semester’s course be moved to the new Moodle server, fill out the form at https://sites.up.edu/migrations/. Once a course is moved, it can be imported using the standard “import” feature. More information can be found at this link.

If you have questions about the migration of courses contact Tony Box at box@up.edu. To start working on fall courses in the new version of Moodle, please visit https://learning3.up.edu.

Filed Under: 07-27-2015, Academics, Campus Services, Information Services Tagged With: Information Services, Moodle, Tony Box

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