{"id":10031,"date":"2018-09-28T10:05:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T14:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news?p=10031&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=10031"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:45","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:45","slug":"all-ctools-sites-are-now-read-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/28\/all-ctools-sites-are-now-read-only\/","title":{"rendered":"All CTools sites are now read-only"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10244\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-e1538143381421.png\" alt=\"CTools header\" width=\"600\" height=\"143\" \/><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>All CTools content will remain available in a read-only state at least through\u00a0<strong>July 1, 2019<\/strong>, and owners of read-only sites can still download content. Email bounce-back messages have also been set up for read-only sites to let users know that CTools sites are no longer accepting email. Exempted sites and their email addresses remain active, including all sites designated as possibly having ITAR\/EAR data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The effort to make CTools sites read-only involved many hours of preparation and a number of technical challenges,&#8221; said Jennifer Love, the project manager for retiring CTools. &#8220;I&#8217;m very grateful to the terrific ITS team and our campus partners who helped us reach this major objective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Love, approximately\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">55,000 CTools project sites and 95,000 course sites are now in a read-only state. (C<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ourse sites in CTools had already been partially deactivated when the university moved to Canvas as its learning management system in 2016.) She added that o<\/span>ver the next several months, further evaluation and consultation with university stakeholders will take place to determine an approach for ultimately decommissioning CTools.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/its.umich.edu\/projects\/ctools-project-sites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/its.umich.edu\/projects\/ctools-project-sites\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1537975044931000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHA8cwrx_kVied4L0ewsehpStXieQ\">project website<\/a>\u00a0for more information. If you need assistance or have questions, email the project team at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ctools-projectsites@umich.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ctools-projectsites@umich.edu<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00a0July 1, 2019, and owners\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/28\/all-ctools-sites-are-now-read-only\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[79],"class_list":["post-10031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-services","tag-ctools"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420.png",600,420,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420-200x140.png",200,140,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420-286x200.png",286,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420.png",600,420,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420.png",600,420,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420.png",600,420,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420.png",600,420,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420-600x300.png",600,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420.png",600,420,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/CToolsLogo-600x420.png",357,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Rita Girardi, ITS Communications","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/girardi\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The ITS team working to retire CTools recently achieved a major milestone by completing the process to make all remaining CTools sites read-only. 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