[myplace-announce] Myplace unavailable on morning of Tuesday 17 June 2014 for creation of new 2014-15 classes

[learning-technologies]

Dear Colleagues,

Myplace unavailable on morning of Tuesday 17 June 2014 for creation of new 2014-15 classes

Please note that Myplace classes for next academic year 2014-2015 will be created and made available in June 2014.  New versions of Myplace classes are created annually and the timing is based on your feedback that these classes should be available to work on over the summer months.
To allow this to happen, Myplace will be unavailable from 7am - 12 noon on Tuesday 17 June 2014 to enable content to be copied from class pages.  The new tab with 2014-2015 classes will be available for use by the end of that week, with content copied from the 2013-2014 class pages and a number of upgrades and new features for 2014-2015 class pages including the following:

*        Newer version of Moodle (version 2.6)

*        Provision for reading lists, scanned items and exam papers to be shown on class pages which have enrolments for more than one class code

*        New features in 'My Notices' based on staff feedback, allowing deletion of notices and targeting of class groupings as well as groups of students
Students will be notified of this service disruption and reminders issued to staff 4 weeks and 1 week in advance.  There will be a further maintenance slot in August 2014 to enable the session change to 2014-2015 before the new academic year begins - details of this will be announced in due course.
Note that information about planned downtime is always available on our support site<http://support.myplace.strath.ac.uk/display/MS/*General*+Planned+Myplace+Downtime> linked from the top 'About' menu on Myplace.  Please contact the IT helpdesk<http://www.strath.ac.uk/ithelpdesk/> if you have any queries about this or any other aspect of Myplace.
Best Wishes
Caroline Breslin
Caroline Breslin
Learning Technology Adviser (Engineering)
Education Enhancement
McCance Building

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