Software Development

The server that hosts the Fine Arts searchable collection is unexpectedly down. LIS was in the process of moving the collection database and website to a new collection management and publishing system. Instead of investing time into reconstructing the Fine Arts Collection in it’s old format, the current Fine Arts Collection will remain unavailable until the new website and content is brought online later this year.

The following websites are currently down:

• apc.luther.edu
• geobase.luther.edu
• finearts.luther.edu

via Kace:

Are your top new features being planned for the next version of the K1000 or K2000? How can you make sure your feature requests are heard and prioritized? The KACE UserVoice forums are the best way to answer these questions. UserVoice allows you to easily see what KACE has planned for the K1100 and K2000, and to vote on your favorite new K1000 and K2000 features. Click on the links below to get started!

http://kace.uservoice.com/forums/82699-k1000 (aka help.luther.edu)

http://kace.uservoice.com/forums/82717-k2000

WHAT CHANGES INSTRUCTORS SHOULD EXPECT

1. Navigation changes: A lot of familiar links have been moved around to different areas so some confusion should be expected initially
2. Conversion of Old Courses: There have been reported difficulties in getting an older style of course to convert to the newer style without some loss of functionality. Sometimes this means a loss of block or activity functionality and sometimes it means actual loss of material information pertinent to the course record of activity.

The Kace KBOX 1100 (help.luther.edu) will be taken offline during tonight’s maintenance window to a perform a server software upgrade. The system should be functioning again by normal working hours tomorrow.

Lucas Welper has accepted a programmer analyst position with Mayo Clinic in Rochester and his last day at Luther will be March 21st. We appreciate Lucas’ great contributions to the Software Development team and wish him well in his new position.

A farewell party for Lucas is planned for Tuesday, March 20th from 2:30 – 4 p.m. in Main 12.

The Luther community is invited to thank him for the great programming work that he has done for LIS and our users since he started at Luther in 2008. His wife Sarah and new baby Haylie plan to attend.

The registration dates for Fall 2012 term will be April 11th, 12th, 17th, 18th, and 19th from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m.

Students will be getting their registration time from their advisor.

Students can check their registration clearance prior to their registration time on my.luther.edu

Recent versions of Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Chrome have made some security enhancements to the way that connections to https (secure) websites are handled. This enhancement, good overall, causes issues when users attempt to connect to https://vpn.luther.edu . Only web access is affected, and users of the fortissl vpn client are not affected.

The solution to this problem is for us to move to a newer version of the operating system that our vpn runs. Unfortunately we’re having some issues making the newest OS work in the way we want it to.

Students can now grant permission to a parent to view the their financial and/or academic information via http://my.luther.edu. We call this software application a Parent Portal.

The online campus directory has undergone a rewrite. The core functionality largely remains unchanged. Users will notice, however, additional search options under the “Show/Hide more options” link and a more reader-friendly table layout.