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HPCF Unscheduled Downtime: Cooling Issue

To all taki Users At 16:55, large portions of the taki cluster were abruptly taken offline by administrators to help with an unexpected chiller failure in the data center.  This...

Posted: June 2, 2023, 5:10 PM

June brings support for CSV upload of Ultra test questions

New location for Announcements, plus anonymous test grading

Creating many questions on a test can be a time-consuming process. Instructors might import questions using third-party tools or publisher test banks, if compatible or available. Beginning with...

Posted: June 1, 2023, 11:47 AM

Reminder: Blackboard Courses Scheduled for Server Retirement

Courses before Fall 2020 to be retired beginning 7/1

During Summer 2023, DoIT staff and Blackboard will archive our entire instance of Blackboard, which will save individually backed-up copies of every course and organization through SP2023. Courses...

Posted: June 1, 2023, 9:15 AM

taki Downtime Completed

To all taki users, The maintenance downtime for the taki cluster environment is complete. Feel free to begin using the system. We are aware of a few nodes that are down in the batch...

Posted: May 31, 2023, 5:06 PM

Introducing Rex Finance 2.0

Over the last 18 months, we have been working on implementing a new suite of financial reports utilizing Tableau, a visual analytics platform.  I am thrilled to announce the launch of these new...

Posted: May 30, 2023, 3:26 PM