SP18 Course Sites to be Unpublished 5/31

As part of policy, old course sites will automatically be unpublished after the term has ended. We will unpublish official University Registrar Spring 2018 course sites on Thursday, May 31st from the following schools (Continuing Education Courses are exempt):

• College of Arts & Sciences
• School of Education
• School of Government
• School of Information and Library Science
• School of Media and Journalism
• School of Nursing
• School of Public Health

Instructors can republish sites by clicking on the (Publish Now) button at the top of their site or through Site Info > Manage Access.

Spring 2018 Semester in Review

Another semester has come and gone, and Summer courses are already well underway! This past Spring 2018 semester, we had 4,039 courses taught by 2,273 unique instructors in Sakai! Check out our blog to see campus usage for the semester on Sakai, VoiceThread, Warpwire, and Poll Everywhere!

We're upgrading to Sakai 12 on August 6!

We have exciting news to share. We're upgrading to Sakai 12 on Monday, August 6th! Many exciting new features are coming with this upgrade and we invite you to check out our blog for more details. Here are some highlights!
 

• Extended delivery for assessments for select individuals and groups
• Gradebook performance enhancements
• Gradebook interface improvements, including rendering of student grades for large classes
• Optional Lessons subpage left navigation menu
• Additional Lessons widgets for Announcements, Calendar, Forums, Resources, and personalized text
• Accessibility improvements

While we will make every effort to minimize the outage that day, please plan for Sakai to be unavailable all day on August 6 while we apply the upgrade. Thank you for understanding!