Cloud-y Days

Yesterday, none of the students could access their Drives. They were able to navigate through back doors to their blogs, but only to view them as a guest would who had stumbled on them. They did not do work other than do online searching for information. Unfortunately, many are now at the survey stage, or writing stage. Being able to access their work is important. Although my office is IN the library, most of the research work has been done so being able to make interpretations of survey data and write the research papers is the next step...a step not easily buttressed with manual labor (writing).

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We later learned this was a national blip, so it was not our equipment or server. We reviewed a backup plan in case this were to happen again. All students have been told to print out their survey data so they can make interpretations off-line. Research papers are saved on a thumbdrive in addition to the cloud so it can be worked in spite of no Cloud services.

A back-up plan is vital!