Week's End Report - Mar. 3rd

Tip of the Week!

GWC Online Technologies Coordinators, along with the assistance of several other staff members, are working diligently to convert our Lafayette and Kokomo regional online courses into Canvas. This is a complex process, involving anywhere from 4-10 hours of transition time within Blackboard, followed by anywhere from 2-5 hours conversion in Canvas- a total of approximately 6-15 hours per course.

As we are completing what we can of the transition, we will be reaching out to those faculty who are listed as Instructors in the regional development shells. In general there is very little work to be done by the faculty on the development shells. 

We are asking that the development shell Instructors convert the syllabus to the new template. Depending upon the course there may be a few additional steps that need to be taken specifically by a subject matter expert. Those steps will be outlined in the email you receive.

We anticipate that faculty will need to spend, for the most part, approximately 1-2 hours finalizing the course. 

We're asking that the finalization be done within approximately three weeks of notification. If you receive an email and have questions or concerns, please contact us at GWC-Online@ivytech.edu.

Systems Update

An AWS (Amazon Web Services) experienced an outage early in the week. The impacted several systems including Canvas and Crocodoc, as well as some of our third party vendor tools.

To check the status of IvyLearn, you can check the Instructure/Canvas status page at:
status.instructure.com