OIT will be performing network maintenance affecting all campuses from 5:00 a.m. until 6:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 15th. During this time, all campuses will experience an interruption in connectivity to the Internet and to internal network-based services.
OIT Status
System & Network Status
OIT Systems Maintenance
Office of Information Technology will be performing routine systems maintenance which includes but is not limited to rebooting Windows servers as deemed necessary, installing critical patches and other health checks on Thursday, 5/08/2025 from 12:00 AM to 9:00 AM during OIT maintenance window. In addition, the following systems will be specifically impacted:
Banner Server Maintenance – Oracle RU 2025 Q2
Description of Change: OIT will be performing Server maintenance from 12:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on Thursday 8 May. Banner will not be available during this time.
Change Window: 5/8/2025 12:00am – 5/8/2025 7:00am
Impacted Services: Banner Admin, Self-Service, Registration, Access Management, ODS
End User impact: All end users of Banner Self Service, ODS and Admin will be impacted.
Server Maintenance
Description of Change: OIT will be performing server maintenance from 10:00pm until 12:00am on Wednesday, May 7th. During this time, the undergraduate application, MyOwl Services, Owl KPIs, Owl Docs, and Uachieve will be unavailable.
Change Window: 5/7/2025 10:00PM- 5/8/2025 12:00AM
Impacted Services: Undergraduate application, Owl KPIs, Owl Docs, Uachieve, directory, Owl Residency Portal, Owl Files, Personal Information, Owl Admin Pages, Program Admin, Transcript Request, Course Entry Quiz, Textbook Attestation, Nondegree
End User impact: Services will be unavailable.
REDCap Update
Description of Change: OIT Research Computing will be taking the REDCap survey tool offline from 12 am to 2 am on Thursday, May 8, 2025 for standard systems maintenance.
Change Window: 5/8/2025 12:00AM – 5/8/2025 2:00AM
Impacted Services: REDCap
End User Impact: Service will be offline.
Server Maintenance
Description of Change: OIT will be migrating a server responsible for authentication on the Fort Lauderdale campus
Change Window: 5/8/2025 3:00am – 5/8/2025 6:00am
Impact Services: Active Directory
End User Impact: None expected
Textbook Attestation enhancements
Description of Change: Faculty attestation page to provide user the option to view submission history Chair/delegate page to provide user the option to view submission history Faculty attestation page to include “review all” materials button
Change Window: 5/8/2025 8:00am- 5/8/2025 8:02
Impacted Services: Textbook Attestation
End User Impact: Service will be unavailable.
SWAETBL form modifications
Description of Change: OIT is making a change on the Slate decision and GradCAS decision page to allow users to mark a record as Completed/Manually resolved in Banner.
Change Window: 5/8/2025 9:00am – 5/8/2025 9:05
Impact Services: Owlforms
End User Impact: Service will be unavailable.
[RESOLVED]Banner admin and self-service unavailable
The cause was identified and resolved. All services have been restored.
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We have received reports that banner is unavailable. We are currently working with our vendor to investigate and resolve as soon as possible.
We will provide updates as we have more information and apologize for any inconvenience.
OIT
[Resolved] Mediasite Catalog
The issue authenticating with the Mediasite Catalogs in Canvas has been resolved.
Posted in Canvas / LMS, Lecture Capture
[Update] Mediasite Catalog
We believe we have identified the issue with the intermittent errors affecting the Mediasite Catalog in Canvas. We are currently taking steps to mitigate this issue. This process should be completed by this (Tuesday 5/29) evening.
Posted in Canvas / LMS, Lecture Capture
Mediasite Catalog
Some users are reporting intermittent issues accessing the Mediasite Catalog in Canvas. A case has been opened and is pending with the vendor.
If you encounter a stale request, you can attempt to side-step the issue by reloading the catalog (click on the catalog link from the menu), or by clicking to another LTI tool such as Zoom and back to the catalog.
Posted in Canvas / LMS, Lecture Capture
[RESOLVED] Partial wireless outage on the Boca campus, General Classroom South
Update (1:55pm): Wireless services have been restored and the OIT team is continuing to monitor the situation.
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We are experiencing a partial WiFi outage in this building and are working to resolve the issue.
Posted in Network and Telecom
Banner Maintenance
OIT will be performing Banner Maintenance tomorrow from 12:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday 22nd, April. Banner will not be available during this time.
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Office of Information Technology
Florida Atlantic University
Posted in Banner and Admin Systems
[Resolved] Zoom Canvas Integration Errors
UPDATE: This is resolved. The integration is back to normal operation.
Users are experiencing errors when trying to load the Zoom Canvas integration in their courses. We will be updating this post as we receive updates on this issue.
In the meantime, meeting hosts can copy the join URL for their upcoming meetings and share them via email, announcements, etc. To do so:
- Go to https://fau-edu.zoom.us and click the Sign In button.
- If prompted, sign in with your FAU credentials.
- Click the Meetings button in the navigation menu on the left.
- Click the title of your upcoming meeting.
- Click the copy button for the Invite Link (screenshot below):
- Paste the link in a message/announcement to the attendees/students that need to attend.
Once sent, your attendees will be able to join your meeting by opening the link. As the host you can start the meeting by clicking the Start button on the page where you copied the link.
[Resolved] Issue with multiple Zoom Services
Services have been restored, if you are still having connection issues please flush your DNS cache and attempt to reconnect.
Posted in Canvas / LMS, Video Conferencing