Attention eClass Instructors,

Now that Fall term 2016 is underway, many eClass instructors have noticed that their course lists have continued to grow longer. If you have been teaching in eClass for a number of years or are an administrator involved in numerous courses per term, you may wish to remove courses from your Course Overview list. This can now be accomplished using the new self-serve archiving process available in the Course Management block.

As a best practice for the

Attention eClass users,

Please be aware that eClass will require an outage Saturday August 27th 2016 2:00AM - 4:00AM. This outage is required for our hosting provider to perform infrastructure maintenance.

eClass and eClassLive will be unavailable for the duration of this outage. If you have any questions about this outage, please contact us at eclass@ualberta.ca

Regards,
IST eClass Support

Update: The outage has been completed early and eClass is available.

Attention eClass users,

This is a reminder notification about the eClass maintenance window this Saturday August 20th 12:00AM through Sunday August 21st 11:59PM. This outage is required for our hosting provider to make a number of infrastructure improvements as well as for the release of a number of new features and improvements to the system.

The changes and new features being released include:

• Improvements to the self-serve

Attention eClass users,

This outage has been cancelled.

Please be aware that eClass will require a brief outage on Thursday August 18th 2016 from 10:00PM to 10:30PM. This outage is required by our hosting provider to perform infrastructure maintenance.

eClass and eClassLive will be unavailable for the duration of this outage.

If you have any questions about this outage, please contact us at eclass@ualberta.ca

Regards,
IST eClass

Attention eClass users,

Moving forward, we will be scheduling 24-hour and 48-hour maintenance windows for eClass on specific dates in-between terms. These planned outages will allow us to perform necessary updates and maintenance to eClass and eClass Live on specific dates designed to minimize the impact on the majority of eClass users.

For the coming year, full 24-hour and 48-hour maintenance windows for eClass and eClass Live are scheduled for the following dates:

• August

Attention eClass Users,

The latest eClass update is now live and has implemented the following changes in the system:

New Features

• Assignment PDF file submissions can now be annotated directly in-system to provide in-line feedback without downloading the file. For more information on this feature see here.
• Question banks can now be sorted by question creation/modification date.
• Improvements to forum subscription and read tracking processes.
• New Quiz question type: Drag and Drop Into