Tag Archives: CTools

Be a part of U-M history: Share your CTools story

By Cathy Crouch, ITS Teaching and Learning | December 11, 2019

ITS Teaching & Learning is partnering with the Bentley Historical Library to preserve the history of CTools by archiving documents and stories about CTools from its creation to retirement. Faculty, staff, and students who worked with CTools are invited to share their CTools stories by filling out the short Qualtrics survey on our website: https://its.umich.edu/academics-research/teaching-learning/ctools-retirement/stories. Your perspective is vital… Read More »

CTools retirement set for July 1, 2019

By Rita Girardi, ITS Communications | February 28, 2019

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ITS has announced that the final step in the multi-year process to decommission CTools will take place on July 1, 2019 when the platform will be retired and content will no longer be accessible. For more than a decade, the U-M community had used CTools for learning management, file sharing and storage, project collaboration, and research support. The… Read More »

All CTools sites are now read-only

By Rita Girardi, ITS Communications | September 28, 2018

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The ITS team working to retire CTools recently achieved a major milestone by completing the process to make all remaining CTools sites read-only. This means that CTools course and project sites can still be viewed, but can no longer be modified. All CTools content will remain available in a read-only state at least through July 1, 2019, and owners… Read More »

REMINDER: CTools sites become read-only August 31

By Rita Girardi, ITS Communications | July 10, 2018

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For the last year and a half, ITS has worked with campus to help site owners transition off of CTools project sites. As a next step, ITS is targeting August 31, 2018 to change CTools sites to read-only—site content can be viewed and downloaded, but not modified. All content in CTools will remain available in a read-only state… Read More »

CTools sites to become read-only August 31

By Rita Girardi, ITS Communications | April 18, 2018

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For the last year and a half, ITS has worked with campus to help site owners transition off of CTools project sites. As a next step, ITS is targeting August 31, 2018 to change CTools sites to read-only: site content can be viewed and downloaded, but not modified. All content in CTools will remain available in a read-only… Read More »

CTools project sites reminder

By Rita Girardi, ITS Communications | January 22, 2018

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ITS recently completed an initial round of communications to all faculty and staff CTools project site owners. Since communications started last September, site owners have downloaded 650 sites and deleted over 1,400 sites. The target date for transitioning all active project sites from CTools is August 31, 2018; however, individual units may choose an earlier date. All historical… Read More »

CTools project site migration clinic happens Nov. 10

By Rita Girardi, ITS Communications | November 3, 2017

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The ITS CTools team will host a project site migration clinic on Friday, November 10, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in the ScholarSpace in Hatcher Graduate Library, room 206. If you own a project site in CTools, this is a great opportunity to meet one-on-one with a CTools expert to get help downloading your project site content and learn about alternative… Read More »

CTools offers download tool & clinics for project sites migration

By Rita Girardi, ITS Communications | September 18, 2017

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Thanks to the School of Dentistry for partnering with ITS this summer to pilot the self-service project site download tool and migration clinics. They provided valuable feedback that confirmed the ease of using the tool as well as the value of one-on-one consultations. The project site migration tool is now available to all project site owners in CTools.… Read More »

CTools project sites migration

By Rita Girardi, ITS Communications | May 30, 2017

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Thank you to the School of Public Health for partnering with ITS on the first pilot. We received valuable feedback from them and our other unit representatives. We have incorporated their input in the following ways: Migration approach: ITS will not automatically bulk migrate content. Instead we will hold regular clinics to offer 1:1 support and training on… Read More »

CTools project sites migration

By Rita Girardi, ITS Communications | February 23, 2017

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ITS has been working with the School of Public Health to pilot the migration process. The first wave of pilot migrations was just completed and feedback from the pilot group will be incorporated into the upcoming second phase of the pilot. An IT4U Webinar will be scheduled for next month to provide more details on the migration to collaboration… Read More »

CTools project sites migration

By Rita Girardi, ITS Communications | December 15, 2016

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After successfully moving all CTools course sites to Canvas earlier this year, ITS is now shifting focus to decommission CTools Project Sites by late 2017. The ability to create project sites was deactivated as of December 3. Requests for CTools project sites after that date can be made through the ITS Service Center. After February 1, no new… Read More »

CTools begins transition of project sites

By News Staff | November 1, 2016

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This semester marked a major milestone for teaching and learning at U-M: All course sites moved from CTools to Canvas, a more capable system that has earned praise from faculty and students. But the work is not done yet. ITS is now shifting its focus to decommissioning CTools Project Sites by late 2017. Project sites, commonly used for… Read More »