For Staff, Service Improvements
Weekly Web Updates - June 8, 2020
| by Ian McBride and Adam Franco
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For Staff, Service Improvements
Weekly Web Updates - June 1, 2020
| by Adam Franco and Ian McBride
This week we were able to track down and resolve a logout issue with Canvas that has been frustrating users this spring. For many years Canvas has been using our legacy CAS authentication service for single-sign-on and single-sign-off. As more and more services have been moved to Microsoft’s Azure single-sign-on system, users have been making fewer login-requests to CAS that would normally push out the login session for 2 hours on each authentication. With Canvas as the only CAS-authenticated service that some users were accessing, they were finding that they would get logged out of after 2 hours when the CAS login session expired. We’ve changed the CAS configuration so that it will no longer logs users out of Canvas as part of single-sign-out. This will allow Canvas logins to remain active for up to 48 hours after the last Canvas page-load.
Separately, we address an issue that was preventing new course sections from flowing through from Banner to catalog.middlebury.edu and on to the Course Hub since May 7. Course sections are now flowing through nightly in time for summer program startup.For Staff, Service Improvements
Weekly Web Updates - May 25, 2020
| by Ian McBride and Adam Franco
For Staff, Service Improvements
Weekly Web Updates - May 18, 2020
| by Adam Franco and Ian McBride
New website for Community Engagement is now launched.
For Staff, Service Improvements
Weekly Web Updates - May 11, 2020
| by Ian McBride and Adam Franco
Google Forms and Microsoft forms can now be embedded in any WordPress, Drupal 7, or Drupal 8 site. See the Web Forms documentation for more information about using these new forms services and our announcement that support for Drupal forms will end in November 2021.
forms.middlebury.edu and forms.miis.edu will be discontinued in November 2021, but new web form services are available now
| by Ian McBride
Over the next eighteen months, we’ll be asking you to move forms from forms.middlebury.edu and forms.miis.edu into another system. You can get a head start on this now with new form creation tools from Google and Microsoft.
For Staff, Service Improvements
Weekly Web Updates - May 4, 2020
| by Adam Franco and Ian McBride
For MiddPoints, For Faculty, For Staff
Get Ready for Oracle HCM -- Action Required
| by Chris Norris
Everyone needs to be enrolled in the Green Mountain Higher Education Consortium’s (GMHEC) Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) in order to access our new Human Resources services on Oracle, which includes time entry and benefits.
Read more to learn how to enroll.For MiddPoints, For Faculty, For Staff, For Students
Skill Building with LinkedIn Learning
| by Cynthia "Pij" Slater
There’s never been a better time to explore LinkedIn Learning’s offerings and add some new skills to your work, school, or personal “toolkit.”
Read on for some timely course suggestions.
For Faculty, For Staff, Service Improvements
Weekly Web Updates - April 27, 2020
| by Ian McBride and Adam Franco
By default, Canvas shows grade-distribution graphs to students. While this setting can be changed by instructors, it is buried under advanced course settings and not easy to find. Showing the grade-distribution in large classes may be fine, but in classes with only a few students it could expose student performance in obvious ways.
Beginning this week, when new Canvas sites are provisioned from the Course Hub we are now hiding the grade-distribution graphs by default. Instructors who wish to display grade-distribution graphs can update the course settings in Canvas to show the grade distribution graphs — only the default for new courses is changing.