Wake Alert system to remain operating during computer network maintenance
This announcement was emailed to students, faculty and staff on Oct. 9 by Wake Forest Communications and External Relations:
During computing network maintenance at Wake Forest on Oct. 12, the Wake Alert emergency notification system will remain operating. Some temporary changes will be in place with Wake Alert during the maintenance scheduled to occur between 5 p.m. and midnight.
As Information Systems announced, recently, all University network and computing services will be unavailable. On campus, students, faculty and staff using the University network will not be able to reach Internet-based services such as Google mail and Sakai. Voice mail, WIN and more will not be available.
The Oct. 12 maintenance work, which will begin at 5 p.m., is expected to be completed by midnight, if not earlier.
If an emergency were to occur, the University Police Department (WFUPD) will be able to send text alerts to all registered to receive them and activate the University’s outdoor alert equipment.
Fire alarms and indoor alerts will function, as always.
Communications and External Relations (CER) will make arrangements to use other Internet providers so as to post alerts to the University website, including the Wake Alert website and the University home page, and to send emails to students, faculty and staff. CER will also use social media, such as the Wake Alert Twitter account (@WakeAlert).
Those on campus will need to use alternative methods to access CER’s emergency notifications through the Internet. For instance, on campus, students, faculty and staff may use their mobile devices connected to the Internet by AT&T, Verizon or other Internet providers.
CER will not be able to send voice mail messages to faculty and staff campus phones.
Detailed information on the Wake Alert system is found at wakeready.wfu.edu.
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Information Systems maintenance will temporarily make Internet unavailable
This announcement was emailed to students, faculty and staff on Oct. 5 by Information Systems:
Information Systems will perform required maintenance on certain core network equipment on Thursday, October 12 between 5:00 p.m. and 11:59 p.m. During this time period all network and computing services will be unavailable on campus.
If you are on campus during the outage period you will not be able to reach Internet-based services such as Google mail and Sakai; in addition, you will not be able to reach campus resources such as voicemail, VPN, WIN, Banner, etc. If you have a Cisco phone, it will also be offline.
If you are off campus during the maintenance window, public-facing resources and cloud-based resources such as the website, Google mail and Sakai will continue to function normally.
This maintenance work is being performed so that core security appliances remain up to date and fully supported by our vendor, Cisco Systems. We will work with them and our installation partner throughout the outage, to ensure we use the outage window effectively.
If you have questions concerning this message or need assistance, please contact us at help@wfu.edu or 336-758-4357 (HELP).
Information Systems
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VeriCite pilot continues for 2016-17
This is a guest post from the Learning Management System Team:
The Information Technology Executive Committee has approved an extended pilot of VeriCite for the 2016-2017 academic year. VeriCite is a cloud-based service that helps to verify the originality of student work. It also can help to facilitate proper citation techniques and paraphrasing skills when used as a tool to enhance instruction through student reflection.
The Sakai Learning Management System Team has received multiple requests from faculty for this type of service. We have decided to pilot VeriCite because it was designed to easily integrate into Sakai. If faculty choose to participate in this pilot, students submit their paper through the assignment tool within their Sakai course. VeriCite automatically generates an “originality report” to the student and faculty.
How to Participate in the VeriCite pilot: The pilot is open to any Wake Forest faculty teaching a course in the Sakai learning management system utilizing the assignment tool during the Fall 2016 or Spring 2017 semester. Please go to the following URL (http://pdc.wfu.edu/events/2541/) to register for the workshop Building a Student Culture of Academic Integrity: The Role of Anti-Plagiarism Software.
Workshops are scheduled for Aug. 24 and 25. To learn more about the pilot visit go.wfu.edu/vericite. If you have any questions regarding this pilot please email LMSTeam@wfu.edu.
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Sakai workshops available to faculty
This is a guest post from the Learning Management System Team:
Wake Forest’s Learning Management System Team will be hosting a variety of Sakai related workshops to kick off the 2016-2017 academic year. This includes a general introduction to Sakai for faculty who are new to the system or would like a refresher.
A new offering,”Technology Confidence Camp: Sakai,” is a low-enrollment workshop and is suitable for those faculty who would like to build their technology confidence.
Sakai’s Lesson Builder, popular among faculty transitioning to a flipped classroom, is used to create structured units of learning containing multiple pages and subpages for arrangement and delivery of content organized by lesson. Additional tools within Lessons: polls, student-generated content with rubric grading and peer review, gradable comments, and embedded videos.
Please register for Sakai workshops on the PDC website (http://pdc.wfu.edu/?q=sakai).
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10 tech tools for teaching
Come join us for a 30 minute “highlight reel” exploring faculty use cases for technologies used in teaching around campus. We will see how faculty are using tools like Sakai, Google, WebEx, VoiceThread, and other collaborative technologies in our classrooms. The class will be interactive. Please bring your laptop, smartphone or tablet.
Registration will assist us in obtaining an accurate head count prior to the event: http://pdc.wfu.edu/events/2661/
Locations
June 15: Greene Hall
June 15: Carswell Hall
June 16: Winston Hall
June 16: Salem Hall
June 29: Scales Fine Arts Center
June 29: Worrell Hall
June 30: Tribble Hall
June 30: Kirby Hall
July 12: Olin Hall
July 12: Winston Hall
July 13: Greene Hall
July 13: Scales Fine Arts Center
July 19: Wingate Hall
July 19: Greene Hall
July 20: Tribble Hall
July 20: Salem Hall
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