Trouble report, Webcourses access

Last Webcourses, access announcement of Fall 2007

Students, I just received this trouble alert concerning access to Webcourses. I know many of you have had some trouble clicking in today and yesterday. Here is the email alert:

Dear faculty, Webcourses@UCF will be down for required maintenance tomorrow morning between 6:00am and 7:00am. Beginning this morning, Webcourses@UCF began experiencing a problem that forced users to use the "backdoor" to access their courses. This required users to use their NID and NID password. We think we have identified the cause of the problem and have successfully fixed the problem in our testing environment for Webcourses@UCF. We will bring the production server down tomorrow morning to apply this fix to production. We apologize for the inconvenience, Course Development & Web Services

Sign in method via my.ucf.edu portal

In case you encounter weird password troubles at the standard Webcourses sign-in page,

http://webcourses.ucf.edu

you can also try the My.UCF.edu portal. They have a new sign-in feature that will show all your online course areas, whether in the old WebCT or the new Webcourses.

Instructions for New! Online Course Tools Tab.

The modification to your portal page is kind of weird - you deactivate some stuff in order to activate the new tab. But it seems to work. Here is what the new "Online Course Tools" tab looks like on my portal page,


(dark grey tab by fountain)