SUMMER '06 Semester:

• [ May 22nd ] Important notice! Summer courses are not accessible until the first day of class. You may retrieve your username and login to WebCT Vista beginning Tuesday, May 30th.
• [ May 22nd ] Orientation for UHV Online Students! We will host 2 face-to-face orientation sessions for students new to WebCT Vista or online courses. Contact your Online Support Technician for more details.
  Sugar Land: Wed. May 31st, 6-9pm, Rm 320
  Victoria: Thu. Jun 1st, 6-9pm, Rm 216.

SPRING '06 Semester:

• [ May 16th ] Important notice! WebCT Vista will be unavailable from 4:00 pm Wednesday, May 17th until 12:00 noon Friday, May 19th for end-of-semester maintenance, including the installation of new hardware. Please DO NOT attempt to log in during this time.
• [ Feb 21st ] Attention Intrasession Students! Students who have registered for intrasession courses will be able to lookup their usernames and access their courses on the first intrasession class day, March 20th. Scroll down for information and steps to prepare your computer and review tutorials now.
• [ Jan 16th ] Orientation for UHV Online Students! We will host 5 face-to-face orientation sessions this week for students new to WebCT Vista or online courses. Go to the UHV Announcements for dates/times or contact your Online Support Technician for more details.
• [ Jan 3rd ] Important notice! Spring courses are not accessible until the first day of class. You may retrieve your username and login to WebCT Vista beginning Tuesday, January 17th.

FALL '05 Semester:

• [ Dec 14th ] Important notice! WebCT Vista will be unavailable from 5 pm Tuesday, Dec. 20th to 5 pm Thursday, Dec. 22nd for end-of-semester maintenance, including the addition of another server to the cluster. [ Nov 22nd ] Important notice! The UHV web site will be down this Friday, Nov. 25th, for network maintenance (~8am - 5pm). To access WebCT Vista while our web site is down, you will need to connect directly to the Vista server at http://scholar.uh.edu and then click on the UH-Victoria institution and log in as usual.
• [ Oct 27th ] Yesterday some users may have experienced performance problems while using Vista, or were not able to log in or navigate successfully. We have been researching the problems along with WebCT and today the system appears back to normal. We will continue to monitor and troubleshoot the cause of these problems. Please report any new problems to your Online Support Technician. Also, notify your instructor and contact the support technician if an exam or assignment was interrupted due to the outages.
• [ Oct 27th ] Yesterday afternoon we discovered that mail in Vista was not being delivered. Mail that was created was not lost, but was held in queue until we restarted the system this morning. All mail from yesterday was delivered successfully and mail operation is now functioning properly.
• [ Sep 27th 8:00am ] UHV has resumed normal business operations as of this morning, September 27th at 7.00 a.m. Classes will resume today. Note, however, that UHS Sugar Land and UHS Cinco Ranch will follow the UH restart scheme and report for work at noon on Wednesday, September 28th with normal business operations and classes resuming on Thursday morning September 29th. WebCT Vista is up and operational, so you may access your online courses at any time.
• [ Sep 21st 1:00pm ] UHV Announces Hurricane Closings - University of Houston-Victoria, the University of Houston System at Sugar Land and the University of Houston System at Cinco Ranch will close at 1 p.m. Wednesday, September 21, 2005. Current plans are to reopen all three sites on Tuesday, September 27, at 8 a.m. For updated information, call (361) 570-4848, visit www.uhv.edu or monitor your local media outlets.
• [ Sep 16th 5:00pm ] Vista was updated with a new service pack during this morning's maintenance in order to keep Vista current with the latest security patches and provide some minor feature enhancements and bug fixes. As a result, users will need to make sure their Java is updated. Vista now requires that users have Java version 1.4.2_06 or higher. Older versions will result in users getting an error message in the browser checker when they log in to Vista. Please check your Java version and update if necessary. If you have any problems, please contact your Online Support Technician.
• [ Sep 14th 7:15am ] Vista maintenance is complete. Please report any problems that may occur to your Online Support Technician.
• [ Sep 13th 5:45pm ] Vista will be unavailable tomorrow, Wednesday, Sept 14th, from 6:00am - 7:00am in order to perform emergency maintenance that addresses residual problems from the network issues occurring over the weekend. Please DO NOT log in to Vista during this time.
• [ Sep 12th 8:00am ] Unfortunately the UH network continued to have problems again later Friday evening (about 6:45pm - 11:00pm) and Saturday morning/afternoon (about 9:00am - 2:00pm). You may have experienced disconnects or very slow performance during these times. Network access was again restored about 2:00pm Saturday. Although Vista was up and running, access to and performance in Vista was poor due to the network problems on the UH campus. UH technicians are taking steps to resolve these persistent problems. Please contact your Online Support Technician to assist you if you were cutoff during an exam or assignment during the affected times.
• [ Sep 9th 5:30pm ] The UH network access appears to be back on track, so you should now be able to access Vista successfully.
• [ Sep 9th 3:30pm ] UH is currently having network problems which may affect access to WebCT and other resources on the UH network. Their technicians are working to resolve the problems as quickly as possible. If you cannot access Vista now, please try again later. We will post an update when we have more information.
• [ Aug 30th ] Vista maintenance was completed this morning and things also appear to be back on track with the UH network. Please report any problems to your Online Support Technicians.
• [ Aug 29th ] Emergency maintenance will be performed on WebCT Vista from 6:00 am to 7:00 am Tuesday, August 30. Vista will be unavailable during this time while the Vista system is restarted to recover from UH network problems encountered since Friday evening. Please do not try to log in to Vista during this time.
• [ Aug 26th ] The UH network may experience some downtime this afternoon between 5:30pm - 6:00pm. They are performing preventative maintenance on system-wide internet access to prevent problems experienced recently. This may affect access to any system on the UH network, including WebCT Vista. As a precaution, you should consider avoiding doing any critical work in Vista during this time, e.g., taking a quiz, submitting an assignment, etc.
• [ Aug 25th ] Vista maintenance was completed this morning and the system appears to be back on track. Please report any recurring problems to your Online Support Technician.
• [ Aug 24th ] We are researching the reported problems, including the extreme slowness in Vista, as well as occasional "internal" errors. To address these issues, Vista will be taken down tomorrow morning (Thursday, Aug, 25) at 5:30am. Estimated downtime will be 30 minutes. Please do not try to log into Vista during this time. We appreciate your patience.
• [ Aug 17th ] Attend an Orientation to WebCT Vista and Online Courses. We will conduct 4 orientation sessions during the first week of fall classes. For more details, please check here.
• [ Aug 9th] We will begin loading student data into Vista online courses during the weekend of Aug 18th-21st. Students should be able to access online courses on the first day of classes, Monday, Aug 22nd.
• [ Aug 9th ] Students registering late or adding courses after the first day of class may not have access to their online course for up to 3 business days. Contact your Online Support Technician if you have problems logging in to your course.

SUMMER '05 Semester:

• [July 28th 9:00am] We have been experiencing intermittent problems with our web server (www.uhv.edu) during the past 3 nights/early mornings. As a result, you may have experienced problems accessing our web site. Please remember that even though you may not be able to access our UHV web site, you may still be able to access WebCT Vista by connecting directly to the Vista server. Go to http://scholar.uh.edu and click on the UH-Victoria insititution to get to the Vista log on page. Write this URL down for easy access when our site is unavailable.
• [June 9th 12:50 pm] The problem with the exception errors has been resolved. Users are now able to create mail messages and save quiz answers successfully. If you encountered this problem earlier while taking a quiz, please contact your Online Support Technician.
• [June 9th 10:50am] We are currently experiencing a problem in Vista with "Unexpected System Exception Errors" when you attempt to create a Mail message and when trying to save quiz answers. We are working with WebCT Support to resolve these problems as quickly as possible and will post an update when we have more information.

SPRING '05 Semester:

• [ Apr 5th ] Vista Server Maintenance Wednesday April 6th, 4am-8am. Vista will be unavailable to users during this maintenance period. Please do not attempt to login to Vista during this time.
• [ Apr 1st 8:30am ] Update: Vista is now available. The problem has been resolved and the services have been restored.
• [ Apr 1st 8:00am ] Vista is currently unavailable. We were not able to restart the Vista servers after the morning maintenance. We are currently troubleshooting the problem and will restore services as soon as possible.
• [ Mar 11th ] Daily Vista Maintenance during Spring Break. We will perform server maintenance next week, Monday-Friday, March 14-18 from 4:00am - 8:00am. Vista will be unavailable, so please do not attempt to log in during this time.
• [Mar 7th 1:00 pm] Update: Vista Mail problem will be resolved in system restart. We will restart Vista tomorrow morning (Tuesday Mar 8th) between 5:00am - 6:00am. During this time Vista will be unavailable to users, so please do not attempt to log in during this time. Accumulated emails have been queued and will be sent upon restart with the correct date and time they were originally sent.
• [Mar 7th 9:00 am] Mail in Vista not being received by users. Since approximately 3:30pm on Friday, mail sent in Vista has not appeared in the recipient's inbox. Sent mail appears in the Sender's Sent box, but it has not made it to the Recipient's Inbox. At this time, please DO NOT resend mail. We are investigating the problem and will post news on a resolution soon.
• [Mar 4th 10:00am ] Vista is now available. Access to Vista was restored approximately 9:00am.
• [Mar 4th 7:00am ] Vista is currently inaccessible! The weekly server maintenance has been extended to address performance and connection problems. We will post an update when the server is available.
• [Feb 1st ] Web server maintenance - Alternate Vista Login Procedure! The UHV web site http://www.uhv.edu will be down for maintenance this Friday, Feb. 4, 2005, from 12:00 noon until 5:00 pm. All pages on the uhv.edu site will be inaccessible during this time. The Vista server will not be affected and you will still have access to your online courses. To log in, however, you should link directly to the Vista application server. To log in to Vista while our web site is down, (1) go to http://scholar.uh.edu (2) click the link for University of Houston - Victoria on the Institution Listing page, (3) click the Log In button on the UHV Entry page, and (4) type your Username and Password on the UHV Log In page.
  If you have any questions, please contact your Online Support Technician.
• [Jan 27th ] Attention users installing Java recently! Sun has just released a new version of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) v 1.5.0_01. This version has NOT been officially tested with WebCT Vista and WebCT recommends that users DO NOT upgrade to this version. If you have already upgraded to this version, we recommend that you uninstall this version and re-install the previous version. Click here for more information and instructions for uninstalling and re-installing Java.
• [Jan 27th ] Attention AOL users! For best results: 1) Connect to the internet with AOL, 2) launch a private chat in AOL (to keep the AOL client open without disconnecting), 3) minimize AOL, 4) launch a different supported browser (e.g., Internet Explorer 6 or Netscape 7), and 5) login to Vista in the non-AOL browser. Click here for more information.
• [Jan 11th ] We will begin loading student data into Vista online courses on Friday, Jan. 14th, and continue through the weekend. Students should be able to access their courses on the first day of classes, Tuesday, January 18th.
• [Jan 11th ] Students registering late or adding courses after the first day of class may not have access to their online course for up to 3 business days. Contact your Online Support Technician if you have problems logging in to your course.

FALL '04 Semester:

• [Nov. 22nd ] Due to the Thanksgiving holiday this week, we are moving our Friday maintenance to Wednesday morning. Vista will be down from 4:00am until approximately 12:00 noon on Wednesday, Nov. 24th, to perform extended maintenance.
• [Nov. 10th 7:00pm] The Vista server was down from approximately 5:00pm until 6:25pm. WebCT Support has identified the problem and are working on a fix. No further problems are anticipated at this time.
• [Nov. 8th 5:00pm] Vista has been performing sluggishly today, so emergency maintenance will be performed at 5:30pm! The Vista servers will be down from 5:30 until approximately 6:30pm on Monday, Nov. 8th. During this time you should not try to access your course(s).
• [Oct. 20th 12:00pm] There was a problem with the internet service in Houston from approximately 7:45am until 11:00am this morning which prevented any internet access into or from the UH campus. Because of this internet service failure, Vista was inaccessible by anyone trying to access from off-campus through their normal ISP provider.
• [Oct. 1st 7:45am] The mail problem has been resolved during the Vista maintenance this morning. Mail sent during the down time appears to have been queued and sent and should have arrived in the recipient's inbox. Please contact us if you have any further problems.
• [Sept. 30th 1:45pm] We are currently working with WebCT support to resolve a problem with Vista mail. Vista mail sent since about 9:00am this morning is not being recieved by the recipients. We will post an update as soon as we have more information.
• [Sept. 30th 8:00am] Vista performance was very slow yesterday afternoon and we had to do an emergency reboot at 7:00pm. Vista was down from 7-8pm, but now appears to be okay. Please contact us if you have any problems.
• [Sept. 29th 7:35am] The mail problem in Vista has been resolved with this morning's restart. Mail sent during the down time was queued and has now been sent with the original date and time. Users should not have to resend any mail messages that were sent during this time. Please contact your Online Support Technicians if you have any further problems.
• [Sept. 28th 6:45pm] The Vista server will be down early tomorrow (Wed.) morning for a restart to address the email problem. It will be down from 6:00am - 7:00am. We will post an update on the status of the mail problem after this maintenance.
• [Sept. 28th 4:15pm] We are working with WebCT to resolve a problem with Vista email. Currently, Vista mail is not being sent to the recipient--it may or may not appear in your Sent folder, but it is not appearing in your recipient's inbox. While we are researching, please do not send or resend any mail within your Vista course. We will post an update as soon as more information is available.
• [Sept. 27th] We installed a fix Friday for the discussion caching problem that many had reported. You should no longer see discussions from one course displayed in another. Please contact your Online Support Technician to report ANY problems you are having with Vista.