VLE Service Announcements

Dear Users,
As stated previously, the VLE will be offline next week for Rollover. Rollover is an annual process that takes place at the same time each year. Essentially it is our opportunity to ‘clean’ the system and ready it for next year.
Please see here http://www.esddelu.org.uk/vleservice/important-rollover-2010/ for details.
Students on the MBBS programme should follow this link: [...]

There is currently a problem with the Blackboard login box on the School of Medicine and Dentistry web pages (http://www.smd-edu.qmul.ac.uk/). While this problem persists, the standard College Blackboard entry page on http://www.elearning.qmul.ac.uk/ should be used to access the system.
The problem with the login page on the SMD Education web site will be [...]

Dear Users,
Due to ongoing works to upgrade the VLE hardware over the summer period the VLE will experience periods of extended disruption from 6:45am and 9:00am on Wednesday the 28th.
You are advised against creating any work on the VLE during this time as it may not be saved.
Thank you and apologies for the inconvenience,
VLE Admin

Blackboard will be offline during this period for scheduled work on the live database server.
This is essential work to prepare the application for the introduction of server clustering, which will further improve the performance and stability of the platform.
Apologies for any inconvenience this short interruption may cause.

Dear All,
I am contacting you specifically in relation to the use of Windows Media Video files in Blackboard.
As you may know we are in the process of upgrading the server that runs the VLE. Part of this upgrade is a move to using clustered servers to increase the speed and durability of the application and [...]