Interactive Learning Center Diliman

Official Memorandums

Memorandum No. ILCD MFMR 24 – 003: Survey on Awareness and Utilization of ILC Diliman Services

Memorandum No. ILCD MFMR 24-003: Survey on Awareness and Utilization of ILC Diliman Services Memorandum November 5, 2024 Memorandum No. ILCD MFMR 24 – 003 (Survey on Awareness and Utilization of ILC Diliman Services) As part of the Interactive Learning Center Diliman (ILC) under the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (OVCAA), we are dedicated to enhancing faculty expertise in the use of technologies for teaching and learning. Our mission includes operating the university’s online learning management system and promoting the production and use of interactive instructional materials. To ensure the continues improvement of our services, we are conducting a survey to gauge your awareness and utilization of the following ILC Diliman services: 1. Iskomunidad: An online academic community for UPD, Iskomunidad is a WIKI platform that facilitates the exchange of ideas and promotes collaborative content creation and peer review.2. Pages: A free, easy-to-use, do-it-yourself platform for creating and maintaining online sites for UPD units and projects, as well as for profiles of UPD faculty and researchers.3. Conference: A tool designed to assist in organizing scholarly conferences.4. Flipbook: This tool simulates the experience of opening and flipping through a physical book or magazine, allowing users to read its contents interactively. The link and QR Code for the survey are provided below:https://upsystemdiliman.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_74edmtKN4HUymLs  Your feedback is invaluable to us. By participating in this survey, you will help us understand how well these services meet your needs and how we can further enhance them to support your teaching and research activities. We appreciate your time and cooperation in completing this survey. Thank you for your continued support and commitment to academic excellence.

Memorandum No. ILCD MFMR 24 – 002: Launch of New Pages

Memorandum No. ILCD MFMR 24-002: Launch of New Pages platform Memorandum July 19, 2024 Memorandum No. ILCD MFMR 24-002_Launch of New Pages platform The Interactive Learning Center Diliman (ILCD) will launch a New and Updated Pages web app on July 26, 2024. Pages is a free, easy-to-use, do-it-yourself platform for the creation and maintenance of inline sites for UPD units and projects as well as for profiles of UPD faculty and researchers. It seeks to fill the gap between well-developed UPD websites and outdated (if not abandoned or non-existent) sites of certain UPD units, projects, and researchers. The new pages platform will be accessible again on July 26 through https://new-pages.upd.edu.ph/. Please note that you have to login using your official email address (@up.edu.ph) to be able to access the platform. The following changes have been made to improve your experience: Switched from OpenScholar to WordPress There is now a feature to track user’s activities and revert any changes made. Accidentally deleting blocks is no longer a problem. A lot more plugins and themes to choose from. Effortless Drag-and-Drop: Build your website visually with the drag-and-drop interface. Simply drag elements where you want them, and watch your website take shape. Flexible Building Blocks: Choose from a library of pre-designed blocks for various functionalities like text, images, galleries, and more. Customize them to match your unique style. Seamless Content Management: Edit and manage your website content with ease – no coding required! The current pages sites will be relocated at http://pages.upd.edu.ph/. In case you want to migrate your current website into the new pages website, ILCD can assist you. For any inquiries or clarifications, please contact us at https://helpdesk.ilc.upd.edu.ph/. Thank you! – ILCD Team

Memorandum No. ILCD MFMR 2024 – 001: UVLe March 4 Downtime and Data Loss

Memorandum No. ILCD MFMR 24-001: UVLê March 4 Downtime and Data Loss Memorandum March 15, 2024 Memorandum No. ILCD MFMR 2024 – 001 (UVLê)  Dear UVLê Users, We regret to inform you that the University Virtual Learning Environment (UVLê) experienced an unexpected outage on 4 March 2024, starting at 4:00 pm. Service was restored on 5 March 2024, at 5:45 am. Unfortunately, two of the three database replicates got corrupted due to improper shutdowns resulting from errors, with incidents occurring on 1 March and the most recent one on 4 March. Consequently, some data, including quizzes, assignment submissions, and edits, has become irrecoverable despite multiple recovery attempts by the UVLê Team. We have loaded a backup from 1 March 2024, at 2:00 am, to ensure UVLê is operational at the earliest possible time. Additionally, we are taking additional measures to prevent such interruptions in the future, including increasing our monitoring and alarm systems. For now, we have also created backups of the corrupted database to see if there are other ways to recover the data. We will do our utmost to restore the data but we cannot guarantee that all the data will be intact. This is due to the nature of the corruption and the data that we can restore is limited to what was not influenced. We sincerely apologize as we understand that the whole UP community was affected by this. We were unable to foresee this potential failure in the system. We will continue trying to recover the data to understand as well how we will recover the data faster, regardless if the data is still relevant due to the potential actions that you might take. For any inquiries or clarifications, please contact us at ilcdhelpdesk.upd@up.edu.ph. We apologize for any inconvenience caused and assure you that we are committed to preventing similar occurrences in the future. Thank you for your continuous support.