Category Archives: LMS

Scheduled: Software Updates for Webservers

Between 6:30 AM and 7:00 AM on Friday, March 18 we will be performing software updates on our website servers. You may notice intermittent issues accessing moodle.emu.edu, www.emu.edu, and the Broadcast Email system web-interface during this time.

The web-accessible interface of the Broadcast Email system will be unavailable during this outage. However, emails sent into the Broadcast system will continue to be processed normally, but their delivery may be delayed slightly.

Scheduled: Software Updates for Webservers

Between 6:30 AM and 7:00 AM on Friday, February 19 we will be performing software updates on three website servers. You may notice intermittent issues accessing moodle.emu.edu, www.emu.edu, and the Broadcast Email system web-interface during this time.

The web-accessible interface of the Broadcast Email system will be unavailable during this outage. However, emails sent into the Broadcast system will continue to be processed normally, but their delivery may be delayed slightly.

Scheduled: Moodle Upgrade to 2.9

On Monday, 13 July 2015 between 8:00am and 12:00pm, Information Systems will be upgrading our Moodle system to version 2.9.

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

Highlights of the new features in v2.9 include:

  • Improvements/fixes to the gradebook
  • Navigation improvements
  • Redesigned user profile page

For more details please read the new features tour or the Moodle 2.9 release notes. There’s also a series of videos that describe new version 2.9 features.

Please contact the Helpdesk with questions or comments: helpdesk@emu.edu or 540 432 4357 (x4357 on the Harrisonburg campus).

Scheduled: Moodle

On Monday 2 Mar 2015 between 8:00am and 10:00am information systems will be upgrading our Moodle system to version 2.8.3 .

This upgrade will fix several bugs that users have encountered:

  • the Gradebook Single view is now saving and updating as it should
  • Turnitin’s Expanded Rubric view is now opening up as it should

Moodle will be unavailable during the upgrade; no other systems will be affected.

Please contact the Helpdesk with questions or comments: helpdesk@emu.edu or 540 432 4357 (x4357 on the Harrisonburg campus).

Scheduled: Moodle

On Thursday 18 Dec 2014 between 3:00pm and 6:00pm information systems will be upgrading our Moodle system to version 2.8.

Moodle will be unavailable during the upgrade; no other systems will be affected.

Highlights of the new features in v2.8 include:

  • New ‘Atto’ text editor with comment autosave.
  • Improved grader report and user report.
  • New natural weighting option within the gradebook.
  • Improved quiz question selection and ordering.
  • New connection to Google Drive: upload files from Drive directly into Moodle.

For more details about Moodle 2.8 please refer to the new features tour or the version release notes. There are also a series of videos that describe new version 2.8 features.

(Note that ‘Email to private files’ and ‘Email replies to forum posts’ features require extensive server configuration and are not available at this time.)

Please contact the Helpdesk with questions or comments: helpdesk@emu.edu or 540 432 4357 (x4357 on the Harrisonburg campus).