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Important Dates

Sunday, April 21:
CANCELLED

May 12-13:
OAK Maintenance and Upgrade

Sunday, June 16:
6AM - 10AM Regularly scheduled maintenance

Sunday, July 21:
6AM - 10AM Regularly scheduled maintenance

Sunday, August 18:
6AM - 10AM Regularly scheduled maintenance

Additional resources.

The following sites and services are offered by Vanderbilt University to help faculty and students get the most out of teaching and learning with technology.

Center for Teaching: The Center for Teaching offers online resources for integrating technologies with teaching and learning, including guides to course management systems , online writing, and gathering feedback from students online. The Center also offers a range of programs and services for Vanderbilt faculty and teaching assistants, including workshops on a variety of teaching topics and individual, confidential teaching consultations. (visit their site)

Vanderbilt University Library: Vanderbilt's library offers a broad range of services and technologies that support teaching, learning, and research. Included in these services are web seminars and electronic reserves. The Library is now the steward to the OAK and its related projects. (visit their site)

University Web Communications: The Office of University Web Communications is a division of the Vanderbilt News Service and oversees the Vanderbilt homepage and the top level pages of www.vanderbilt.edu. (visit their site)

 

May Outage Scheduled to include Maintenance and Upgrade

05.01.13    OAK will be down Sunday, May 12 and Monday, May 13 (available again by 8AM Tuesday, May 14) for routine maintenance and a software upgrade. The upgrade from Blackboard 9.1 Service Pack 8 to Blackboard 9.1 Service Pack 11 will consist of several new features and bug fixes, including copy/paste from Word, a new interactive Calendar tool, and the ability to provide targeted information (view full details).

    To familiarize you with the new features, Blackboard created several short videos:
    »   Global Navigation
    »   New Calendar
    »   New Content Editor
    »   Assessment Item Analysis
    »   Discussion Boards

    We understand OAK is an important tool for you and are working diligently to reduce the downtime. Please visit the main OAK website for OAK availability updates.

    We appreciate your patience and apologize for the inconvenience. -- OAK Support

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