Known Technology Issues
The purpose of this page is to alert students of known technology issues on campus. You can be assured that the College is working toward a solution on the following issues.
March 17, 2008, 10:30 AM
Beginning at 5pm on Wednesday we will be performing some network maintenance that will cause some intermittent Internet outages throughout the evening. Local access to Novell drives will not be affected, however, access to the web and mail servers may be affected as well during this time. Normal network operations will be restored for Thursday morning.
March 12, 2008, 7:45 AM
While the college in closed next Friday March 21st, contractors
working with the Physical Plant office will be installing a new Emergency
Generator.
This will require them to turn off power to the server room beginning at approximately 7am and the outage will continue until the work is finished sometime later Friday.
ALL Network access from ON and OFF campus will be unavailable, so please adjust your schedules accordingly. Instructor web sites will not be available.
Blackboard will be available and can be reached directly at http://ivcc.blackboard.com/.
March 10, 2008
Issue with communication between WebAdvisor and email is resolved.
March 7, 2008, 4:45 PM
The communication link between WebAdvisor and email is not functioning.
Therefore, it is not possible to get an email notification regarding
passwords, etc.
February 6, 2008, 8:50 AM
Blackboard services will be conducting some maintenance starting at 5:00
PM, February 20 and ending at 5:00 AM on February 21. While they do
not expect this to interfere with our services, we will be on alert should
any loss of service occur.
November 26, 2007, 8:45 AM
We are experiencing intermittent problems with NetStorage. At this
point, it is possible to download files from your personal drive, but it is
not possible to upload files to the server. As a safeguard, we advise
that you transport important files on USB drives until this is rectified.
November 8, 2007, 3:15 PM
NetStorage access has been restored.
November 8, 2007, 10:50 AM
NetStorage is currently unavailable.
August 28
Blackboard is running fine.
August 27, 1:18 PM
The company that hosts Blackboard for IVCC is having network issues and
therefore the IVCC Blackboard is running very slow to process tasks and
display web pages. The hosting company is working on the issue.
August 6, 4:00 - August 13
The Blackboard server (http://blackboard.ivcc.edu) is unavailable as we
transition to a new server. The new server will become available on
August 13.
April 24, 2:15
WebAdvisor is now available.
April 24, 1:52 PM
WebAdvisor is currently unavailable.
January 26, 11:35 AM
The Library online services from off campus
are not available
at this time.
December 18, 10:15 AM - 4:30 PM
The Blackboard system will be unavailable due
to server maintenance.
November 20, 1:50 PM
The Blackboard/Student email issue has been resolved.
November 20, 9:20 AM
Email sent from instructors to students through Blackboard between Friday, November 18 and Monday, November 20 was delayed in transit or lost. This does not impact messaged sent outside of the Blackboard Learning System.
October 9th, 2:15 PM
Student email system has been restored.
October 9th, 11:00 AM
Student email system is unavailable. It is due to be restored by late morning.
October 6th, 12:01 PM
Email generated from WebAdvisor (password resets, etc.) and Colleague were not working since the server upgrade on Tuesday, October 4th. IT has resolved this issue. If you were waiting for an e-mail from either WebAdvisor or Colleague on Tuesday, October 4th or Wednesday, October 5th, you will need to complete the process again in order to receive the email.
August 21, 7:50 AM
All services have been restored. If you are awaiting a response to an email sent to the campus between Tuesday, August 15 and Thursday, August 17, you should resend the message. Instructors have had limited email services over the weekend.
April 2006
In an effort to use our internet resources here at IVCC effectively, we will be testing several products designed to shape internet traffic and content over the next few weeks. The product we are using now works based on a rules database provided by an outside vendor that categorizes sites and allows us to block or allow based on those overall categories.
Remember, we are Testing. As we learn the product and get a feel for the types of traffic that are abusing resources, we will adjust the rules accordingly to achieve a balance between functionality and efficient, cost effective use of our internet connection to insure the educational needs of our students are being met.
Below is an example of what would come up if the website was currently being filtered.
Last updated: March 17, 2008