Week's End Report - July 8th

Tip of the Week!

As midterms and finals quickly approach, we begin making arrangements for students to take proctored tests. A lot of our students are off-campus for the summer and it's not convenient for them to come in to test at the Ivy Tech campuses or sites. While there are other proctor locations that meet the criteria, it can sometimes be difficult to determine whether a proctor the student has selected is appropriate.

For those cases, the college recommends the use of ProctorU. ProctorU is an online test proctoring service available anywhere throughout the world. They provide proctoring services for students at remote locations.

To learn more about ProctorU, attend the ProctorU Instructor Training webinar on Friday, July 15th at 2:00 pm EDT. 
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/9104788983916557570

Prior to attending the webinar, please view the ProctorU video under the Click for Help tab in Blackboard.

If your students are interested in learning more about ProctorU, please share with them the following site:
https://www.proctoru.com/portal/ivytech/index

That site contains important information for students including a demo of the ProctorU services and a link for test scheduling.

Systems Information

Email delivery was experiencing delays on Friday morning, July 8th from approximately 9:45-10:15 am.
 
On Saturday, July 9th between 2 - 8 pm, maintenance will be performed on our phone servers. During that time phone systems will be intermittently unavailable.

Our wireless internet and VPN will be undergoing maintenance from 11:30 pm on Weds. July 13th until 3:30 am on Thurs. July 14th. Wireless access on campus and VPN access from remote locations will be unavailable during this time.

Banner will be undergoing maintenance from 3 - 11 am on Sunday, July 17th. All Banner modules and Direct Student Loan Requests will be unavailable during this time.

Maintenance will be performed on the internet system, causing internet to be intermittently unavailable from campus on Sunday, July 31st from 5 - 10 am.