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Jan
18
eClass Test Server Email Issue Wednesday January 17th 2024
Posted by Dave Laurie on 18 January 2024 10:53 AM

Attention eClass Users,

A server misconfiguration on Wednesday January 17th, 2024 from approximately 1:00AM to 3:00PM caused email messages to be sent from one of the eClass test servers to a small number of instructors and students. These messages were duplicates of real messages from the actual eClass production instance but contained links and allowed access to the test environment.

This misconfiguration has been repaired and the test server has been blocked from further user


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Jan
6
eClass Announcements for Winter 2024
Posted by Chris Goetz on 06 January 2024 03:03 AM

Attention eClass users,

Welcome back staff, faculty, and students for the Winter 2024 semester! All users should be aware of the following changes that have occurred over the winter break:

  • The eClass update has fixed a number of known issues including the return of IP-restricted quiz reviews and a fix to an editing issue caused by non-standard characters in file names.
  • A number of fixes have been added for the Dark theme
  • A different conversion library has been installed to improve

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Dec
20

UPDATE: The eClass outage is complete. The changes were completed early and eClass was released at 3:00AM.

Attention eClass users,

There will be a scheduled maintenance outage for eClass on Saturday, January 6th 2024 from 12:00AM - 11:59PM (24 hours). This outage is required to perform an update and complete infrastructure changes for eClass. 

Please note that while we have booked a 24 hour maintenance window, eClass will be available as soon as the required changes are complete. We will


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Dec
14
eClass Infrastructure Change Sunday, December 17th, 2023 1:00AM - 2:00AM
Posted by Dave Laurie on 14 December 2023 03:51 PM

Attention eClass users,

Please be aware that users may notice slow performance or error messages on Sunday December 17th, 2023 from 1:00AM to 2:00AM. Our hosting team will be performing infrastructure tuning and maintenance at this time.

eClass will be available throughout the window but users may notice performance degradations.

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


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Dec
1
eClass Maintenance Outage Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 12:00AM - 1:00AM
Posted by Dave Laurie on 01 December 2023 04:16 PM

Attention eClass users,

Please be aware that there will be a brief eClass outage on Saturday December 2nd, 2023 from 12:00AM to 1:00AM. This outage is required by our hosting team to perform infrastructure maintenance.

eClass will be unavailable throughout the outage 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 Support


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Nov
28
eClass Service Degradation Monday November 27th 2023
Posted by Dave Laurie on 28 November 2023 10:27 AM

Attention eClass users,

Please be advised that eClass experienced a service degradation for 10 minutes on Monday November 27th, 2023 from 5:49PM to 5:59PM. Users accessing the site at that time encountered frozen pages or were disconnected from their sessions.

Our infrastructure team is currently investigating a root cause for this issue.

Our apologies for this interruption in service. If you have any questions about this outage, please contact us at eclass@ualberta.ca

Regards,
IST eClass


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