We have a combination of factors which are pushing us to eliminate the legacy service of the "Courses" drive. This service will NOT be available for use in delivering course material this fall. We have been talking about deprecating this service for a couple years now. With the sudden appearance of factor 1 (below) in the last week of July, we cannot commit to it being available for students this fall.
Factor 1: A problem with remote.malone.edu
The service which allows students, faculty, and staff to access remote drives is malfunctioning. IT is working on a complete replacement of the system, but we do not know whether we will have it in place before school starts. The timing of the problem is unfortunate to say the least.
Factor 2: Outragious Consistency
As part of the effort for "outrageous consistency," all faculty have been directed to use Moodle for the delivery of course materials, for taking attendance, and for keeping grade books. Your students are taking up to five or more courses. Let us allow them to concentrate on the content of your course rather than how to obtain access to that content.
What is the "Courses" drive?
If you don't know, then don't worry about it :-) But this used to be the way that we distributed electronic files to students who are taking a class. Each faculty member had a folder which belonged to him or her. Then they would post files to that folder for each of their courses.
Help! I love the courses drive!
There are several departments and faculty on campus who have utilized the courses drive to great success. We recommend that any faculty who need assistance in onboarding to the Moodle system sign up and attend one of the Moodle trainings.
The contents of the Courses drive will remain in place to give time for faculty who have been using it to offload its contents into an alternate location.
Please contact the IT Help Desk if you have any questions or issues. We can be reached via the web at http://www.malone.edu/helpdesk or by phone at 330.471.8428.
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