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SmartSite, the new learning management and collaboration system at UC Davis, will shut down for part of a weekend in June be unavailable 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Saturday August 18th, while its software is upgraded.
The outage will start at midnight on Friday, June 22, and end by noon on Sunday, June 24, wrote SmartSite Program Manager Kirk Alexander in an email to colleagues this week.
In less than four months, SmartSite officially becomes In preparation for the fall, the SmartSite team will be <upgrading the Gradebook tool and fixing know issues.>
<"This update will add increased functionality to the Gradebook," says SmartSite's program manager Kirk Alexander, "including the addition of categories and weighting.">
For additional information about the downtime, please email smartsite-help@ucdavis.edu or call (530) 754-HELP for assistance.
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For additional information about SmartSite, including an overview of tools, user profiles, and self-paced learning materials, please visit http://smartsite.ucdavis.edu
SmartSite is now the preferred campus system for managing classes online, although its tools are handy for a wide range of uses. It has been tested as a pilot program on campus since early 2006, and more than 8<9,600 000?> people have used it so far."In preparation
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To prepare for the fall launch, the developers must upgrade the entire SmartSite environment to the latest version, " Alexander wrote. Users who try to access SmartSite during the outage will see a "down for maintenance" notice with a link to the campus systems status page for more information.
"The upgraded version will include a significant number of fixes and improvements to most tools," Alexander said, but "the overall look and feel of SmartSite will not change."
Send questions about the upgrade, or about SmartSite in general, to will be unavailable 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., Saturday August 18th, while its software is upgraded. For additional information about the downtime, please email smartsite-help@ucdavis.edu or call (530) 754-HELP . For more about SmartSite, including an overview of tools, features, potential uses, and the launch this fall, click here; visit the "Support and Training" section to read about upcoming SmartSite workshops and demonstrations.
Message of the DayIn preparation for the fall campus launch of SmartSite, the developers must upgrade the entire SmartSite environment to the latest version. A significant window of server downtime is required, during which the campus community will not be able to access sites, data, tools or features within the SmartSite system. The upgrade window will begin at midnight on Friday, June 22 and end no later than noon on Sunday, June 24for assistance. For more information about the upgrade, please go to TechNews
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