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Login problems for students with some Drake services – RESOLVED

All – the problem has been resolved and students should no longer have issues accessing Drake services. If you are having issues please contact the Drake Support Center at extension 3001. Thank you. (original posting) We are currently looking into … Continue reading

Categories: News, Outage

Change coming to Poll Everywhere

If you use Poll Everywhere a major new change has arrived.  Poll Everywhere will be switching from Flash to HTML 5.  Read more about the changes to Poll Everywhere on the Poll Everywhere blog:  http://blog.polleverywhere.com/html5-powerpoint-plugin-charts/

Categories: News, Teaching & Learning with Technology

Upcoming Information about Blackboard 9 New Features

On May 31st, the current Blackboard 9 system will be updated with new features. Starting June 1st look for more information on the new features found in Blackboard.  We will blog and tweet out video links, how to, and general … Continue reading

Categories: Communication & Collaboration Tools, Faculty, LMS Blog, News, oitservices, Software, Students, Teaching & Learning with Technology

Microsoft Email Issue

As of 4:30pm this issue has been resolved by Microsoft. We have received reports of some users experiencing difficulty accessing email. Microsoft is working on a resolution and we will post updates as they area available form Microsoft.  

Categories: News, Outage

Panopto Outage May 18th in the Evening.

Panopto hosted servers will be down on Saturday, May 18th, from 8:00pm to 11:00pm EST to complete the upgrade to the server. The outage will be during the evening hours from 7 PM until 10 PM CST.  We expecting minimal … Continue reading

Categories: Hardware & Software, LMS Blog, News, Outage, Teaching & Learning with Technology, Uncategorized

Office 365 Update

The Office 365 email upgrade is still on track to occur on June 20th and I wanted to provide everyone with a quick update. The first part of the Microsoft Office 365 Upgrade that Drake is undertaking will be to … Continue reading

Categories: News, Teaching & Learning with Technology, Uncategorized

Group email in outlook mac

On May 7, Microsoft released a patch that addresses group email issues. If you have been experiencing trouble with group email try installing the latest update. The update also fixes a bunch of other security and application issues and we … Continue reading

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New Features coming soon to Blackboard 9!

On May 31st, Blackboard 9 will be updated and means the following features will be enhanced: My Blackboard area where people can view and access posts from discussion board, MyGrades, Calendar, and people from all available courses Calendar will automatically … Continue reading

Categories: Classroom Technology, Communication & Collaboration Tools, Documentation, Faculty, LMS Blog, News, oitservices, Services, Software, studentinformation, Students, Teaching & Learning, Teaching & Learning with Technology

Blackboard 9 Maintenance on Sat, May 4th

There will be a brief outage of Blackboard 9 at 3:00am and again at 7:00am on Saturday, May 4th while OIT preforms maintenance on the Blackboard servers.  Each outage should last approximately 5 minutes. Thank you for your understanding and … Continue reading

Categories: Communication & Collaboration Tools, Faculty, LMS Blog, News, oitservices, Outage, Students, Teaching & Learning with Technology

blueView, DUSIS Maintenance Friday, May 3

blueView and DUSIS are scheduled for routine maintenance on Friday, May 3.  They will be unavailable from 4:00 p.m. until approximately 6:30 p.m.  blueSky, blueSpace and Blackboard will be available from outside of blueView at their respective URLs. For planning … Continue reading

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