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We are pleased to be back online nearly two hours ahead of schedule. A couple of services are still coming back up fully. Dragon will be available by 9:00PM. Moodle, WesFiles, and apps critical to course grading are in service. VPN users will notice a new client and interface when connecting. This is part of […]

As a reminder, ITS is performing major maintenance and upgrade work on Saturday, May 14 from 4PM to 10PM. This is an all inclusive downtime and no services will be available. Visitors to Wesleyan’s website will see a Wesleyan page that says we are currently performing maintenance. During the downtime, I will provide any status […]

Congratulations to Latin American Studies and thanks to the New Media Lab on a beautiful redesign for the Latin American Studies website. You can visit it at:
http://www.wesleyan.edu/last

Congratulations to the Medieval Studies Program on the launch of their website redesign at:
https://www.wesleyan.edu/medistud/index.html

Wesleyan launched the website for Medieval Studies  http://www.wesleyan.edu/medistud

We recently published the “CatWalker” plugin on the WordPress Plugin Repository. The plugin allows you to add a double dropdown widget to your site that will let you find the intersection of two categories. The plugin also allows you to use a custom taxonomy (called “Attributes”). Attributes work essentially like post categories, but you can […]

Earlier this morning we upgraded WesBase, our custom WordPress theme, to version 3.6.1. This latest release includes a full-width page template with no sidebar(s). The “one-column” page will offer a nice way to display large-format graphics. You can choose the new layout from the editing interface for any page. If your site has custom styles, […]

Gradebooks with a lot of students (rows) and a lot of items (columns) can be very slow to load, especially after you turn editing on. We are exploring adjustments to our systems, but to some extent the problem is endemic to Moodle. Fortunately there are some end-user practices that can somewhat alleviate the pain. Depending […]

Faculty who use a Wesleyan Installation of the SAS statistical analysis package will need to have their Desktop Support Specialist update their license before they can run the software. ITS staff are working quickly to make the necessary update on the…

Faculty who use a Wesleyan Installation of the SAS statistical analysis package will need to have their Desktop Support Specialist update their license before they can run the software. ITS staff are working quickly to make the necessary update on the…