Attention Zoom Users,

Zoom has announced that they will be retiring significantly older client versions of their software on August 6th, 2022. 

After this change takes effect, users will not be able to log in or join meetings from client versions below 5.3.0 (originally released in September 2020). 

We recommend that all UofA Zoom users download and update to the latest version of Zoom client software to take advantage of all our latest security and functionality features. 

Regards,

IST

Attention Zoom users,

The Zoom Live Training Team has scheduled a special series for education organizations on August 2nd and August 3rd, 2022. This three-part event series provides training on how to set up your classroom and engage your students on Zoom. Live training sessions are interactive, with opportunities for live Q&A with Zoom Trainers, and will inform you on best practices for using Zoom in an educational setting and as an educational tool.  

Register for the Setting Up

Attention eClass users,

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

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

• August 20th, 2022
• January 2nd, 2023
• May 6th 2023
• June 24th, 2023 - Major Upgrade

Each outage will run from 12:00 AM to 11:59 PM unless otherwise posted. eClass will be unavailable for the duration of each

UPDATE: eClass is now available - the maintenance outage was completed early and the site was released at 10:45AM.

Attention eClass users,

This is a reminder that there will be a scheduled maintenance outage for eClass on Saturday, June 25th 2022 from 12:00AM to 11:59PM (24 hours). This outage is required to perform infrastructure maintenance and upgrade eClass to a new version.

The complete list of changes coming in the upgrade can be found here.

eClass will be unavailable for the duration

Attention eClass users,

We have an important announcement that may impact your older credit courses on eClass.

The annual scheduled archiving of credit courses for this year has been scheduled for May 31st, 2022. This process, described in more detail here, mandates that credit courses can only remain on eClass for a maximum duration of four years. Non-credit courses including sandboxes, content development templates, research/collaboration courses, and eClass External courses are not

Attention eClass users,

There will be a brief eClass maintenance outage on Saturday, April 30th 2022 from 12:00AM - 2:00AM. This outage is required to perform infrastructure maintenance and minor updates before the start of Spring term.

eClass 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