OAK Upgrade Scheduled: OAK Unavailable December 21-22
Nov. 28, 2011—OAK support will need to take advantage of Winter Break to install Blackboard service packs and begin initial work for the OAK Enhancement Project. OAK will be available through Tuesday, December 20 so faculty can report grades. Beginning early morning Wednesday, December 21, through Thursday, December 22, OAK will be unavailable. During this time, please...
Uploading Multiple Documents Made Easier: The Document Unpackager
Sep. 7, 2011— The “Document Unpackager” tool allows instructors to upload multiple files, even files in folders and nested folders, from your computer and put them, at one time, in OAK. The tool takes a ZIP file from your computer and uploads the entire contents into OAK, preserving the nested folders. The files are listed in...
Making your course “available” to students
Aug. 11, 2011—Each semester, instructors must make courses in OAK “available” to students before they can access content. To make a course available, in the course Control Panel area: 1. Click “Customization” to expose the hidden menu 2. Click “Properties” 3. Select “Yes” in section 3, “Set Availability” 4. Click “Submit”
CAUTION: Enrolling students directly in OAK DOES NOT officially enroll them in the course.
Aug. 11, 2011—Course instructors have the ability to enroll “students” directly in their OAK course. This capability is available so instructors can add guests to their courses. If a student needs to be added to an official Vanderbilt course, they should enroll in that course through YES; if they do not, they are not officially enrolled.
CANCELLED: Regularly Scheduled Down Time Sunday, August 21
Aug. 8, 2011—OAK will NOT be down Sunday, August 21 for maintenance. Please visit the main OAK website for maintenance updates, OAK availability, and regularly scheduled maintenance dates. Note about Regularly Scheduled Maintenance: Though we like to have our servers up 24/7, there are times when we need to take them down to perform regular maintenance. Please note that...
CANCELLED: Regularly Scheduled Down Time Sunday, July 17
Jul. 7, 2011—OAK will NOT be down Sunday, July 17 for maintenance. Please visit the main OAK website for maintenance updates, OAK availability, and regularly scheduled maintenance dates. Note about Regularly Scheduled Maintenance: Though we like to have our servers up 24/7, there are times when we need to take them down to perform regular maintenance. Please...
OAK News Blog Gets New Look
Jun. 23, 2011—The OAK News Blog updated its look to match other Vanderbilt websites. The new look should make viewing the archives easier to use.
OAK to Expand Functionality
May. 24, 2011—OAK, Vanderbilt’s course management system, will be expanding current functionality to provide additional services and customizations, as well as attain efficiencies in course delivery and management. Powered by Blackboard Learn “Course Delivery,” Vanderbilt will add the “Community Engagement” system to OAK to achieve these goals. Several years ago, a proposal was prepared to enhance OAK...
Regularly Scheduled Down Time: Sunday, May 22 6AM-10AM
Apr. 25, 2011—OAK will be down Sunday, May 22 from 6AM to 10AM for maintenance. We do not expect the outage to last the entire four hours. Please visit the main OAK website for maintenance updates, OAK availability, and regularly scheduled maintenance dates. The date was changed from Sunday, May 15 to Sunday, May 22 to accommodate...
Unscheduled OAK Outage Saturday, 04/23/11 at 6AM
Apr. 22, 2011—This afternoon, OAK Support noticed that there was a problem with the process that takes the enrollments in YES and updates them in OAK. The issue causes enrollment changes for Spring 2011 and Summer 2011 to not be processed. In order to correct this, OAK needs to be “down” for approximately 30 minutes. OAK will...