[myplace-announce] Myplace Upgrade and Rollover for 2013-2014

[learning-technologies]

Myplace Upgrade June 2013 – Notice for University of Strathclyde Staff

Dear Colleague,

Following last Tuesday’s downtime from 6-8am, Myplace has now been successfully upgraded.

What does this mean for me?
New 2013-2014 classes have been created for the new academic year so that staff can prepare content in advance. Students will only have access to classes listed under the 2013-2014 tab once their registration for the new academic year is complete. Note that members of staff may leave class pages closed to students until the start of the academic year or until you are ready to release learning materials - all new 2013-2014 pages are closed to students by default.

Pages NOT connected with a registry class on Myplace, such as those for research groups or some degree programmes, will always appear on the latest version of Myplace, therefore will have been moved from 2012-2013 to 2013-2014. Please check under the 2013-2014 tab for any ‘missing’ classes and refer to the following information:
http://support.myplace.strath.ac.uk/?post_type=article&p=1729

New and improved Myplace features include the Notices tool now being able to target groups of students as well as individual classes, and changes to online assignments - please read about how online assignments have changed as we will be upgrading all old assignment types in 2013-2014 classes over the next 2 weeks.
http://support.myplace.strath.ac.uk/updates/2013/06/20/myplace-online-assignments-have-changed-at-the-university-of-strathclyde-for-2013-2014/

What’s next?
Unlike in previous years, where the look and feel of Myplace has changed significantly between academic years, we are aware that this year, class pages for 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 are very similar, despite the Myplace banner showing 2013-2014 at the top of the new pages for next year.  Therefore, we will be implemeting a temporary colour change for the new 2013-2014 pages so that it is more clear to users when they are in "next year's" version of Myplace.  This will be applied until the session change on 21 August 2013 when the current session will change on Myplace to 2013-2014.   There is scheduled downtime on that day to allow this to happen and further announcements will be made nearer the time.  We are also planning a separate period of downtime in July for essential maintenance.  We hope that it will be possible to complete this out of hours and will send a separate message once the date and time have been confirmed.

If you have any questions about Myplace or the upgrade and rollover, please contact us at any time.

Best Wishes

Caroline Breslin
Education Enhancement
University of Strathclyde
learning-technologies at strath.ac.uk<mailto:learning-technologies at strath.ac.uk>
X3770

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Subject: Myplace Upgrade and Rollover 18 June 2013 (Unavailable from 6am-8am)


Myplace Upgrade June 2013 – Notice for Staff



Dear Colleague,

Please note that Myplace will be unavailable from 6am until 8am on Tuesday 18 June 2013 to prepare for an upgrade and introduction of new 2013-2014 versions of classes.

>From 8am on Tuesday 18 June 2013, Myplace will be available again for general use and will continue to reflect 2012/13 as the current academic session.  From 5pm on Wednesday 19 June the new 2013-2014 instance of Myplace will be available via a new 2013-2014 tab on the Myplace home page to allow staff to prepare content for the next academic year.  It will feature a number of upgrades and improvements, for example:


•        Consolidation of assignment types – based on feedback from students and staff, assignments have been consolidated into 2 types – the new Moodle ‘Assignment<http://docs.moodle.org/24/en/Assignment_settings>’ module and the ‘Turnitin<http://support.myplace.strath.ac.uk/?post_type=article&p=1585>’ assignment type for detection of plagiarism.  The Moodle assignment module incorporates anonymous ‘blind’ marking, group-based assignments, submission of online text, uploaded files and return of feedback via online text or file upload.  For information on the new assignment type, please see the following support page: http://support.myplace.strath.ac.uk/?post_type=article&p=1567#<http://support.myplace.strath.ac.uk/?post_type=article&p=1567>



•        Upgrade of Notices tool based on feedback from students and staff, which includes the ability to send notifications to particular groups within classes in addition to classes as a whole as before.

Please note that content of 2013-2014 versions of classes will be based on the content of the previous year’s version (2012-2013) as of 6am on Tuesday 18 June, i.e. any changes made to the content of a 2012-2013 page after 6am on Tuesday 18 June will NOT be automatically copied to the 2013-2014 version of the page.  If you need assistance copying over additional content from previous year’s classes at a later date, or wish to clear all content from a class, then please contact us for support at any time.

Note that classes which are not registry based with a University class code, such as training pages or those for research groups, will NOT be available from 6am on Tuesday 18 June, and will appear listed under the 2013-2014 tab from 5pm on Wednesday 19 June 2013.

Note also that there is another period of downtime planned for 21 August 2013 for essential maintenance to allow the session change for 2013-2014 and further details will be sent in due course during July and August.

If you have any questions about Myplace or the upgrade and rollover, please contact Learning Technologies at any time.

Best Wishes

Caroline Breslin

learning-technologies at strath.ac.uk<mailto:learning-technologies at strath.ac.uk>
0141 548 3770
Caroline Breslin
Learning Technology Adviser (Engineering)
Education Enhancement
Room 2.22 Graham Hills Building
40 George Street
Tel: 0141 548 3776
Office Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
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