Attention eClass Users,

Welcome back! With this fall term set to be fully online for most courses, the eClass team has been preparing through the summer to support instructors and learners as they return to classes. Here are some important reminders for students and instructors:  

• New instructors should review our overview article for moving their courses online.
• Students should ensure they are ready to participate in online courses. 

In addition, we would also like to announce some important

Attention eClass users,

Update: The hosting team diagnosed a configuration problem that has now been resolved. As of 11:00AM August 25th, all announcement forum post emails are now sending successfully. Please note that messages that failed to send will not be re-processed so instructors who ran into issues should reply to their own post to trigger a new mail out and/or advise students to ensure they check the Announcement forum in the course.

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Attention eClass users,

UPDATE: The maintenance outage was completed early and eClass was released at 8:20AM.

There is a scheduled maintenance outage for eClass on Saturday August 22nd 2020 from 12:00AM - 11:59PM. This outage is required to perform infrastructure maintenance and minor updates prior to Fall term.

The changes that will be deployed during this outage include:

• The Google Assignment external tool will be deployed.
• Assign2 improvements, bug fixes, and new workflows will

Attention eClass Users,

This message is to announce that the synchronous lecture and recording tool eClassLive (Adobe Connect) will be decommissioned on January 2nd, 2021. After this date, users will no longer be able to access Adobe Connect to host meetings or deliver online courses. IST is currently investigating the possibility of providing archived copies of Adobe Connect recordings to content owners, with details to follow as they become available.

This decision is not taken lightly. Given

Attention eClass users,

Updated February 2021: due to the delayed start to the Winter 2021 term, the annual eClass major version upgrade will no longer take place during the May outage window. The upgrade will instead take place on June 26th, 2021.

eClass requires regularly scheduled outages to perform necessary updates and maintenance on specific dates designed to minimize the impact on the majority of users.

For the coming year, full 24-hour maintenance windows for eClass and eClassLive

Attention eClass users,

Please be aware that there will be a brief eClass outage on Wednesday July 1st, 2020 from 12:00AM (Midnight) until 12:15AM. We are using this brief outage to deploy required changes for the launch of the new eClass Course Creation system.

eClass and eClassLive will be unavailable throughout the maintenance window.

Thank you very much for your patience during this outage. If you have any questions, please contact us at eclass@ualberta.ca.

Regards,
IST eClass