Attention eClass users,

The outage scheduled for Sunday February 15, 2015 6 - 9AM has been postponed. Users will be advised when it is re-scheduled.

The outage will be re-scheduled. This outage is required to upgrade eClass to the latest minor version of moodle and to release a number of locally developed fixes and improvements. Functional changes in this update will include the following:

• Grading a course activity while another instructor is editing the Gradebook will no longer

UPDATE: This emergency maintenence outage has been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 4th 2015 from 6:30AM to 6:45AM.

Attention eClass/ePortfolio Users,

Please be aware that there is a scheduled emergency maintenance outage for the ePortfolio service (Mahara) on Tuesday February 3rd, 2015 from 6:00AM to 6:15AM Wednesday, February 4th 2015 from 6:30AM to 6:45AM. This outage is required to restart the Mahara servers as preventative maintenance.

The ePortfolio link from eClass will not

Attention eClassLive Users,

Please be aware that there is an emergency outage scheduled for the eClassLive service (Adobe Connect) Saturday January 24th, 2015 from 12:00 AM to 12:15 AM (tonight). This outage is required to increase the system performance to accommodate large meeting rooms.

eClassLive activity module links within eClass will not be operational through this period so please do not schedule any teaching or learning activities.

Thank you very much for your patience during

The January 15th, 2015 update of the Respondus quiz authoring tool is no longer correctly synching with eClass. Users of this tool are recommended to not update at this time.

IST eClass support is investigating the issue and until a resolution is reached, the only method of publishing and retrieving quizzes from Respondus to eClass is to use an older version.

If you have already updated your Respondus installation, please contact eclass@ualberta.ca and we can provide you with an older

Attention eClass Users,

Please be aware that there is a scheduled maintenance outage for the ePortfolio service (Mahara) on Monday January 19th, 2015 from 10:00 to 11:30PM. This outage is required to install minor system updates to the Mahara server.

The ePortfolio link from eClass will not be operational through this period so please do not schedule any teaching or learning activities.

This outage will not affect basic access to eClass at all.

Thank you very much for your patience during

Attention eClass users,

Please be aware that effective January 26th 2015, the eClass site-wide blogging tool will be disabled. The decision to disable this tool has been made by the eClass Change Advisory Board due to concerns that blog posts made for specific course contexts are available to the broader U of A community.

The removal of this feature will only affect users who have posted through their Profile blogging tool or the ‘Add an entry about this course’ link in the Blog Menu block