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CANCELLED: Regularly Scheduled Down Time Sunday, Feb 19
Feb. 13, 2012—OAK will NOT be down Sunday, February 19 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...
Semester Reminders: Enrolling Students and Making Courses Available
Jan. 10, 2012—Enrolling students directly in OAK DOES NOT officially enroll them your the course. 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 the course, they should enroll in that course through...
OAK Currently Unavailable
Dec. 25, 2011—OAK is currently down due to an issue with MIS support systems. MIS estimates that the service will be available around noon today. This was unrelated to the upgrade. We apologize for the inconvenience. –OAK Support Staff
UPDATE: OAK Maintenance Complete
Dec. 22, 2011—OAK maintenance was completed ahead of schedule and OAK is once again available.
UPDATE: OAK Maintenance Ahead of Schedule
Dec. 22, 2011—OAK maintenance is ahead of schedule. As soon as the upgrade is complete, access to OAK will be restored. Please visit the main OAK website for availability updates.
REMINDER: OAK Unavailable December 21-22
Dec. 20, 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...
A Note from Blackboard: SafeAssign Performance Update
Dec. 12, 2011—SafeAssign is experiencing regular delays due to load on the system. In one sense, the cause of these delays is quite simple: the rate of papers being submitted exceeding the speed with which SafeAssign can process papers. Submissions go into a queue, and are processed in a first-in, first-out order. When the submissions are entering...
OAK Maintenance Complete
Dec. 4, 2011—The maintenance to the OAK databases is complete. OAK was unavailable this morning beginning at 6:00 AM and was restored at 10:00 AM as previously announced. 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 visit the main OAK website...
Unscheduled Downtime Sunday, Dec 4, 6AM – 10AM
Nov. 28, 2011—In order to avoid being unavailable during finals, OAK will be down Sunday, December 4 from 6AM to 10AM for regular maintenance to the databases. 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 visit the main OAK website for...
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...