Announcements
Requesting WolfWare Spaces for Summer and Fall Courses
Date Posted: 3.10.23
Faculty can begin requesting WolfWare spaces for their Summer and Fall classes starting March 17th.
DELTA Load Balancer updates
Date Posted: 3.9.23
On Monday, March 13th, between 8am and noon, DELTA staff will be updating the load balancer software. Due to the redundant nature of the system we do not expect any noticeable interruptions during this work.
Network switch replacement
Date Posted: 3.9.23
On Monday, March 13th, between 10am and noon, DELTA staff will be replacing the network switches that connect with the datacenter networks. Due to the redundant nature of the project we do not expect any outages, although users may notice a network blip or need to refresh their browsers when accessing DELTA services including WolfWare, Moodle, and WolfWare WordPress when the traffic moves from one switch to the other.
Moodle Updates
Date Posted: 2.8.23
On Saturday, February 11th, between 7:00 and 11:00 am, DELTA staff will be performing updates to the Moodle service. During this time there will be brief (<10 minute) outages of each of the Moodle services (courses, projects, and outreach).
Moodle Updates
Date Posted: 1.13.23
On Saturday, January 14th, between 7 and 10am, DELTA staff will be updating the Moodle servers. No major interruptions are expected, but each Moodle service (courses, projects, and outreach) will have short (<10 minute) interruptions. While we do not expect to use the whole time, the larger window is reserved for unexpected issues.
DELTA - network and storage updates
Date Posted: 12.16.22
On Tuesday, 01/03/2023, between 6:00 and 11:00 am, DELTA staff will be performing maintenance updates to our enterprise storage environments and firewalls. Due to the redundant nature of the systems we do not expect any outages to DELTA services, but a degradation is possible if an unexpected issue occurs.
DELTA Load Balancer Maintenance
Date Posted: 12.16.22
On Tuesday, 12/20/2022, between 8:00 and 11:00 am, DELTA staff will be applying updates to the network load balancers for the DELTA run services, including WolfWare, Moodle, and WolfWare WordPress. While we do not expect any major interruptions, here may be a brief outage to DELTA services during this time.
Moodle Updates
Date Posted: 12.16.22
On Tuesday, 12/20/2022, from 1:00 - 5:00 pm, DELTA staff will be performing updates to the Moodle server environment. These updates will affect all Moodle servers, Courses, Outreach, and Projects, and will involve brief (< 15 minute) outages of each Moodle server stack.
Moodle Updates
Date Posted: 11.30.22
On Saturday, Dec 3rd, between 7:00 and 9:00 am, DELTA staff will be applying updates to the Moodle servers. This will affect all Moodle services (Courses, Outreach, and Projects). Each Moodle service will experience a brief (less than 5 minute) interruption while the changes are applied.
Moodle Updates
Date Posted: 11.2.22
On Saturday, November 5th, between 7:30 and 10:00 am, DELTA staff will be performing updates to the Moodle servers, including the Courses, Projects, and Outreach services. There will be short (<10 minute) outages to each Moodle service during this time.
DELTA Load Balancer Updates
Date Posted: 11.2.22
On Saturday, November 5th, between 6:30 and 8:00 am, DELTA staff will be updating the network load balancers. Due to the redundant nature of the system we are not expecting any interruption of services.
DELTA Infrastructure Maintenance
Date Posted: 10.19.22
On Saturday, October 22nd, between 7am and 9am, DELTA staff will be performing maintenance on the load balancers and disk arrays. We do not expect any interruption of services during this time due to the redundancy of the systems. For updates see the DELTA Infrastructure status pagehttps://ncsu.service-now.com/sp?id=service_status&service=15b7d2b71b6d20104d506288bd4bcb13
Zoom Retention Policy
Date Posted: 10.5.22
Beginning October 10th, DELTA will be applying the WolfWare Retention Policy for Zoom meeting recordings that are stored online in Zoom.
DELTA Storage Maintenance
Date Posted: 10.5.22
On Monday, October 10th, between 9:30am and 11:30am, DELTA staff will be performing maintenance on our primary storage environment. While we don't expect any interruptions from this work something unexpected could occur during the work.
Moodle Updates
Date Posted: 10.5.22
On Monday, October 10th, between 7:00am and 9:00am DELTA staff will be performing updates on the Moodle environments. This maintenance will cause brief (<10 minute) interruptions to all Moodle environments including Courses, Projects, and Outreach.
DELTA Load Balancer Maintenance
Date Posted: 10.5.22
On Monday, October 10th, between noon and 5pm DELTA staff will be performing maintenance DELTA's the load balancer infrastructure. While we don't expect major interruptions there may be brief (<10 minute) interruptions to DELTA's services including WolfWare, Moodle, and WolfWare WordPress.
Zoom issues joining meetings
WolfWare WordPress Outage
WolfWare Outage
Date Posted: 9.12.22
On Monday, September 12th, WolfWare, Moodle, WolfWare WordPress and other DELTA services were offline between 8:15am and 11:00am due to a cooling issue in our primary data center.
Moodle Outage
Moodle Updates
Date Posted: 9.8.22
On Saturday, Sept 10th, between 7:00 and 10:00 am, DELTA staff will be applying updates to the Moodle service. This work will include all Moodle environments, courses, projects, and outreach. There will be a brief (<10 minute) outage for each Moodle environment.
Moodle Updates
Date Posted: 8.24.22
On Saturday, August 27th, between 7:00 am and 10:00 am, DELTA staff will be performing maintenance on the Moodle services. This will cause brief (<10 minute) outages on all Moodle Services including the Courses, Projects, and Outreach environments. We do not expect to need the entire window, but reserve the longer period in case of unexpected problems.
Moodle Upgrade News for Students
Date Posted: 8.16.22
NC State’s learning management software (LMS) has a new look and feel! Visit the recently updated Learning with Moodle course (https://go.ncsu.edu/learningwithmoodle) for a walkthrough of Moodle 4 navigation, common activities used by instructors and helpful resources.
Academic Moodle server maintenance
Date Posted: 8.4.22
On Tuesday, August 9th, between 9 am and 12 noon, DELTA staff will be performing updates to the academic (courses) Moodle environment. This work will cause a brief (<10 minute) interruption while services are restarted.
Turnitin Currently Offline: Update BACK ONLINE
Date Posted: 8.1.22
Update: Turnitin is back online. We are experiencing issues with the Turnitin License for Moodle. At the present time you will get an error message if you attempt to access a Turnitin activity in Moodle. Faculty: Please do not copy courses over to Fall 2022 spaces if you use Turnitin. We are attempting to resolve this as quickly as possible.