On Sunday 25 September, 8-11am, New CourseWorks will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance.
Maintenance reminders also appear several days in advance on the New CourseWorks system.
Archive for 2011 – Page 2
Did you know that you can navigate to ALL of your courses from the My Courses page at courseworks.columbia.edu, regardless of whether they’re on CourseWorks or New CourseWorks?
Log in to CourseWorks as usual. Any courses that are on New CourseWorks will be flagged with a yellow “new” sticker.
The first group of Schools and Departments (Medicine, Public Health, Nursing and Dental Medicine, School of Social Work, departments of Anthropology, Statistics and Undergraduate Writing) has completed the transition to New CourseWorks and their Fall 2011 courses are being hosted on the new system.
The early adopters for Fall 2011 include more than 250 instructors from Journalism, SIPA, SEAS, Architecture and Barnard College. These schools and departments will be transitioning fully in the Spring 2012 term.
New CourseWorks@Columbia was successfully launched today.
A collaborative team of IT specialists and skilled users completed a major upgrade to New CourseWorks, Columbia University’s new learning management system.
Some of the key highlights of the upgrade include:
- New virtualized web servers to provide increased scalability and growth
- New load balancing tool to distribute users on available servers for greater performance
- New virtualized database servers to increase reliability and performance
- Migration from Solaris to Linux operating system to improve overall system speed
- Increased storage capacity
- New URL: https://newcourseworks.columbia.edu
With these significant changes to the infrastructure that supports New CourseWorks, the team has created a strong foundation for a reliable and robust system. New CourseWorks is ready to meet the peak demands and expectations of the user community and support future growth of the system for years to come.
Columbia University has launched a major technology project to replace the existing CourseWorks system with a new learning management and collaboration system powered by Sakai software technology.
The new system is known as New CourseWorks.
Each academic term starting with Fall 2011, 800 courses, their instructors and approximately 2,500 students will transition to the new CourseWorks system. During the transitional period (some courses on the old system and some on the new), the existing CourseWorks system will remain fully operational and support all of the courses not yet moved to New CourseWorks.
Each term, a group of early adopters will pioneer the system for the future Schools and Departments transitioning.