Author: emcdonnell

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December 12, 2011 Support downtime from 21/12/11 and Tue 03/01/12

Dear Users, Please note that the support team for the VLE will not be available between Wed 21/12/11 and Tue 03/01/12. Thank you and we hope you have a great break. E-Learning Admin

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November 24, 2011 Q-Review System Maintenance Thursday 08/12/11, 7:00pm -8:00pm

Dear All, Due to essential maintenance, the Q-Review service will not be available on Thursday 8th December 2011 between the hours of 7:00pm to 8:00pm. We will be applying a number of software updates to ensure the continued reliability of the service. Recordings will still run as normal but the upload of these to the [...]

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October 25, 2011 Limit on file size upload into Blackboard

Dear Colleagues, For a trial period of three weeks, the maximum size of an individual file you can upload into the VLE has been lowered to 150Mb. This is to try to regulate the growth of the system. If you need to store files larger than this please contact elu-support@qmul.ac.uk We can offer alternatives (for [...]

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October 17, 2011 Q-Review offline tomorrow evening (18/10/11)

Dear Students, Q-Review, the lecture capture and podcasting service at QM, will be offline for emergency maintenance tomorrow evening (18/10/11). The system will go offline from 17:30 to 19:00. It will come back online for testing at 19:00 but will remain unstable until approximately 21:30. This means that from 17:30 to 19:00 – no recordings [...]

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October 12, 2011 UPDATE – Planned outage all day *now* on 08/11/11

To all users, Blackboard will be unavailable for the entire day of Tuesday the 8th of November for a planned upgrade. Work will begin at 7am and is likely to continue well past 5pm that day. We had previously announced a plan to carry out this work on the Thursday of the previous week. Users [...]

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October 7, 2011 Planned outage all day on 03/11/11

To all users, Blackboard will be unavailable for the entire day of Thursday the 3rd of November for a planned upgrade. Work will begin at 7am and is likely to continue well past 5pm that day. We have tried to time this for a period of low activity but we do apologise for the inconvenience [...]

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September 23, 2011 Systems failures this morning (23/09/11)

Dear Users, Many of you may have noticed systems failures on several key IT services early this morning. While the VLE was not directly effected, some systems that interface into it were. Online module registration, which controls your access to course areas in Blackboard runs each night, did not run last night. Colleagues in IT [...]

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August 22, 2011 Q-Review is expanding

Q-Review, the lecture recording service at QMUL, is expanding. More rooms and free licenses for any staff member to install it onto your laptops. Find out where we’re installing it next and get in touch if you’d like to try it out.

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July 12, 2011 Blackboard and Q-Review offline on the morning of 25/7/11

Dear Users, As a part of planned maintenance of the services hosted by IT Services Platform Services ITS will need to bring College services offline for a planned period of time on the morning of Monday 25/7/11. Both Blackboard and Q-Review will not be available from 04:00am to 05:00am. Both applications will be at risk [...]

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ITS Helpdesk offline from 5:30pm today (12/July)

Dear Users, Please note that the Helpdesk will be offline on Tuesday 12/July/11 from 17:30 to 18:00 Work is being carried out by IT Services to upgrade the system. Regards, VLE Admin

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