Mahara Emergency Downtime - May 19th

EMERGENCY DOWNTIME - MAY 19th - 7-9am

In order to assist further diagnosis of the issues affecting ULCC (UCS' Mahara Hosting) during the recent DDoS attacks, ULCC shall be upgrading the firmware on the firewalls as an emergency change on Tuesday 19th May between 07:00 and 09:00.

Expected Risk:

During this time the firewalls will fail over between the active and standby devices as part of the upgrade process so short breaks in service will be experienced.  The upgrade process is expected to take up to an hour to complete, but the services should be deemed as being intermittent during the full 2 hour period to allow for testing of the new firmware.

It is advised that you do not access Mahara for this at risk period.

Mahara Stories - Student's View

Recently we have been asking the users of our Mahara e-Portfolio system to volunteer some time to answer some questions about how they have used the system.

Here is the first of the student's view.

Louise now uses Mahara regularly and states she would now continue to use some sort of electronic portfolio after leaving UCS.

The course Elevate ran, 'e-Portfolios for the reflective learner' was mentioned as being the element that raised her awareness of Mahara before she started using it for her course.

Many many thanks to Louise Kearney for taking the time to help us collect these stories.