June 4, 2020
This message is distributed to All-Instructors, Academic-Assistant-Deans, and Academic-Department-Managers.
The following is being sent on behalf of the Instructional Support Team
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Dear Colleagues,
In these difficult times, we hope that you are well. We thank you for the labor you’ve put into teaching and your support for students.
The Instructional Support team will host two more lunchtime discussions, tomorrow and next Friday:
June 5 12-1 pm Building Learning Communities in Class
Hosted by Mindy Colin
https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/92380370129
June 12 12-1 pm Designing Meaningful Assessments
Hosted by Lisa Berry
https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/92380370129
We hope that these discussions will provide space and resources for thinking about teaching.
We also want to remind you of upcoming maintenance outages:
Upcoming Campus Network and GauchoSpace and GauchoCast Outages:
Campus Network Outage - Monday, June 15th, 11:00 pm to Tuesday, June 16th, 6:30 am PDT. Campus Internet will be migrated to new core infrastructure. The campus network, and some campus resources, including GauchoSpace, will be unavailable during this time.
GauchoSpace End-of-Quarter Maintenance - Friday, June 19th from 7:00 am to 11:00 am PDT. GauchoSpace will be unavailable for end-of-quarter updates and maintenance. New enhancements include H5P, a resource for creating rich interactive content, as well as a new, simplified integration for Zoom and an improved integration for GauchoCast. Find out more here.
GauchoCast Upgrade and Maintenance Outage - On Saturday, June 27, Panopto will be performing a scheduled upgrade to their cloud service. While an exact time and duration of the expected service downtime were not announced, the final announcement will be out on Friday, June 9. See the included link for information of what to expect: https://support.panopto.com/s/article/Cloud-Upgrade-FAQ