Category Archives: Blackboard/Moodle

Scheduled: Upgrade Moodle to v3.1

Blackboard/Moodle, LMS,

On Saturday, 16 July 2016 between 9:00am and 1:00pm, Information Systems will be upgrading our Moodle system to version 3.1.

Moodle will be unavailable during the upgrade. No other systems will be affected.

Highlights of the new features in v3.1 include:

  • Improvements to assignment grading
  • Turnitin updates/improvements
  • A couple of small updates to forums
  • A recycle bin for retrieving items that were mistakenly deleted

Please contact the Helpdesk with questions or comments: helpdesk@emu.edu or 540.432.4357 (x4357 on the Harrisonburg campus).

Update 11:30am: Moodle is back up and functioning. If you are accessing Moodle from on the EMU campus and you continue to see the down for maintenance notice, please reboot your computer before contacting the Helpdesk.

Scheduled Third Saturday Maintenance

Blackboard/Moodle

Saturday (21 Jul 2012) is a scheduled Saturday information systems maintenance outage.

We expect outages for only the following systems between 8:00am and 10:00am on the 21st:

* Moodle (LMS) will have an outage between 8:00 and 10:00am. We will be upgrading to Moodle 2.3. Details of new features and bug fixes will be available on the Moodle home page.
* SISDB (EX) and myEMU will have an outage between 8:00 and 8:30am.
* emu.edu/now (including the news blog) will have an outage between 8:00 and 8:30am.

Moodle upgrade

Blackboard/Moodle

Update 2011-12-21 10:50AM: We have confirmed that the problem is specific to the Opera browser. We recommend using a recent version of Firefox.

Update 2011-12-21 10:28AM: The upload problem seems to be specific to the Opera browser. We recommend using a recent version of Firefox.

Update 2011-12-21 10:04AM: The Moodle upgrade is complete but we are still troubleshooting a problem with uploading files. We will update this log and the Moodle front page as we have more details.

On Wed, 21 Dec, we will be upgrading Moodle. Moodle may be unavailable between 8:00 and 10:00AM. We have scheduled the upgrade after most semester grades are due but know that this may still cause problems for some faculty. We apologize for the inconvenience.

If you have concerns about this upgrade please contact the information systems Helpdesk–helpdesk@emu.edu or 540 432 4357 (x4357 on Harrisonburg campus).