Announcements
Moodle Maintenance
Date Posted: 10.1.21
On Monday, October 4th, between 6:00am and 7:00am, DELTA staff will be performing maintenance on the Moodle database servers. This will cause a brief (< 10 minute) outage of Moodle.
Moodle Maintenance
Date Posted: 9.9.21
On Saturday, September 11th, from 7am - 10am, DELTA staff will be performing updates to the campus Moodle environments.
Moodle Maintenance
Date Posted: 8.25.21
On Saturday, August 28th, between 7-10am, DELTA staff will be applying updates to the Moodle environments, including Courses, Projects, and Outreach servers.
WolfWare Server Maintenance
Date Posted: 8.3.21
On Friday, 8/13 beginning at 8am, DELTA staff will be upgrading software on the servers that support WolfWare. Although a few brief outages are likely, we expect these updates to be applied relatively quickly and do not anticipate any extended downtime.
DELTA - Infrastructure Maintenance
Date Posted: 8.3.21
On Thursday, 8/12 beginning at 6am, DELTA Staff will be performing replacement of network equipment that supports many DELTA service offerings including but not limited to Moodle, WolfWare, WolfWare Wordpress, as well as the delta.ncsu.edu and online-distance.ncsu.edu websites. During this time, the aforementioned services may be unavailable in an intermittent or extended fashion. We intend to complete the procedure by 1pm, but the entire maintenance window is reserved in the event of any unforeseen issues. As a general recommendation, to avoid disruptions to workflow, we would encourage students, faculty, and staff to plan around this maintenance window if at all possible.
Moodle Maintenance
Date Posted: 8.3.21
Update as of 8/13 2:55pm: We are pushing this maintenance window to tomorrow morning due to a configuration issue discovered with our environment. The new window is 8/14 from 7am-10am.
On Friday, 8/13, beginning at 12pm, DELTA staff will be applying updates to all current Moodle instances (Courses 2122, Projects, Outreach). We expect these services to incur roughly a 30 minute outage each. We do not anticipate needing the entire duration of this maintenance window, but it is reserved in the event of any unforeseen issues.
Turnitin Currently Offline
Date Posted: 7.26.21
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 2021 spaces if you use Turnitin. We are attempting to resolve this as quickly as possible.
Moodle Degradation
Panopto Maintenance
Date Posted: 6.23.21
On Saturday, June 26, the Panopto will be updated with the latest features and improvements. These updates will require downtime. We expect up to 4 hours of downtime, with a target start time of 9:00 pm EDT/6:00 pm PDT
Moodle Maintenance
Date Posted: 6.23.21
On Saturday, June 26, DELTA staff will be applying updates to all Moodle instances between 7-10am. For updates see https://ncsu.service-now.com/sp?id=service_status&service=d3399e3b1b6d20104d506288bd4bcb14
WolfWare Outage
WolfWare WordPress Maintenance
Date Posted: 5.13.21
On Monday, May 17th, between 9am and noon, DELTA staff will be applying updates to the WolfWare WordPress service. There may be brief (5 minute) interruptions to WolfWare WordPress during this time. For updates please see: https://ncsu.service-now.com/sp?id=service_status&service=69f512f31b6d20104d506288bd4bcb4e
DELTA Infrastructure Maintenance
Date Posted: 5.13.21
On Tuesday, May 18th, DELTA staff will be performing maintenance on the network, storage, and systems infrastructure upon which other DELTA services such as WolfWare, Moodle, and Mediasite depend. While there may be some minor delays in responses as systems fail over, due to the redundant nature of the systems no major interruptions are expected. For updates please see: https://ncsu.service-now.com/sp?id=service_status&service=15b7d2b71b6d20104d506288bd4bcb13
Zoom Maintenance
Date Posted: 5.13.21
On Monday, May 17th, DELTA will be activating the “Require that all meetings are secured with one security option” setting as the default on all meetings. If users do not have a security setting enabled the Waiting Room will be enabled by default. There should be no interruption of service during this maintenance. The minimum allowed client version for Zoom will be increased to version 5.5.0. For updates please see: https://ncsu.service-now.com/sp?id=service_status&service=92b0de771b2d20104d506288bd4bcbc8
WolfWare Maintenance
Date Posted: 5.13.21
On Monday, May 17th, from 9-11am, DELTA Staff will be performing updates to the WolfWare service. There will be an outage to the service during this time. For updates please see: https://ncsu.service-now.com/sp?id=service_status&service=3a7416bf1b2d20104d506288bd4bcb06
Moodle Maintenance
Date Posted: 5.13.21
On Monday, May 17th, from 9am - noon, DELTA staff will be upgrading the Moodle service. Moodle will be unavailable while this work is being performed. For updates please see: https://ncsu.service-now.com/sp?id=service_status&service=d3399e3b1b6d20104d506288bd4bcb14
Mediasite Maintenance and retirement
Date Posted: 5.13.21
On Monday, May 17th, from 6-8am in the morning, DELTA staff will be taking the next steps in the retirement of the Mediasite service. you discover that you still have links pointing to any of the “*.online.ncsu.edu” instances please contact learntech@ncsu.edu for assistance. For updates please see https://ncsu.service-now.com/sp?id=service_status&service=d05a92fb1b6d20104d506288bd4bcb00
Shibboleth update for WolfWare, Moodle
Date Posted: 4.28.21
On Thursday, April 29th, between 10:00 and 11:00 pm, DELTA staff will be applying updates to the Shibboleth Service Provider software. There will not be an interruption of service, but some users of WolfWare, Moodle, and WolfWare Wordpress may have to re-authenticate after the update has been applied. This update is to fix a potential Denial of Service vulnerability in the Shibboleth software.
Zoom Update requiring re-authorization
Date Posted: 4.16.21
Effective Sunday, April 25, Zoom will be enabling new Zoom Phone features in the Zoom for GSuite Add-On that will prompt all users to reauthorize Google’s access to include contacts and the company directory so that users can place calls directly through Google applications using Zoom Phone.
Moodle Courses 21-22 updates
Date Posted: 4.14.21
On Saturday, April 17th, from 7am to 10am, DELTA staff will be applying updates to the Moodle Courses 21-22 servers. The process will cause a brief interruption of the service. This will affect courses in the WolfWare "Future" tab only. No current courses will be affected or have any interruption.
Mediasite Maintenance
Date Posted: 3.31.21
On Saturday, April 3rd, from 6am - 10am DELTA staff will be applying updates to the Mediasite service. Due to the redundant nature of the system we do not expect an interruption of service during this time.
Mediasite Retirement
Date Posted: 3.23.21
As part of the transition from Mediasite to Panopto, all recording in Mediasite (including classroom, desktop and uploads) will end on May 17, 2021. Existing Mediasite content will be available until May, 2022.
Record with Panopto
Date Posted: 3.16.21
Panopto is available in Moodle to create and edit video content for Summer and Fall 2021. Consider joining the Early Access group.
New: Virtual Background Generator for Zoom and Google Meet
Date Posted: 3.8.21
New: Virtual Background Creator for Zoom and Google Meet. Create a new NC State themed Virtual Background for Zoom or Google Meet, add your name to the background and hide your messy room or office today. https://wolfware.ncsu.edu/virtual-backgrounds/