CAFE: Center for Advancement of Faculty Excellence

18/02/2022

New CAFE newsletter for Feb/March! Join CAFE in person or by Zoom as we recognize our 2022 Wall of COOL (Celebrating Outstanding Opportunities for Learning) awardees

CAFE News Vol 26, February 22 - March 22 Volume 26 | February 22 - March 22 Awardees left to right: Berit Givens, Mathematics and Statistics; Iman Hemmatian, Management and Human Resources; Janel Ort

31/08/2021

Canvas is currently experiencing service degradation due to outages with Amazon Web Services. The technicians at Instructure are actively investigating

Welcome to Instructure's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

12/08/2021

Due to an unexpected third party intermittent service degradation, users of Turnitin, Turnitin UK, & iThenticate may experience sporadic network issues while trying to use the service. Thank you for your patience as we investigate. For updates please visit

Welcome to Turnitin's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

17/05/2021

Blackboard is currently experiencing intermittent service issues. IT has been made aware of the issue and is currently investigating. We'll provide more info ASAP

12/03/2021

Turnitin is currently undergoing Emergency Maintenance. Turnitin services will be inaccessible during this period. Please see on Twitter for more info: https://twitter.com/TurnitinStatus

26/01/2021

MediaVision is currently investigating several reports of meeting limitations in our university Zoom license. More info to come!

22/01/2021

Spring students have successfully been enrolled into their upcoming Blackboard courses! Instructors: Be sure to make your courses available to students:

To continuously improve the Learn user experience, we’ve decided to separate our Learn help documentation. Currently, our student and instructor help for Learn Original and Learn Ultra appear on the same page. When the redesign is complete, this help will be separated into two different pages, dep...

19/01/2021

Spring semester is just around the corner! Students will be enrolled into their upcoming Blackboard courses by Jan 21 - 22. Be sure to get your course copy requests in early! https://cpp.service-now.com/ehelp?id=sc_cat_item&sys_id=7d49fd2a6fe18b007996073aea3ee4d1&tool=blackboard

15/01/2021

A friendly reminder that Studio 6 and CAFE will be closed Monday (1/18) in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Employees receive thirteen paid holidays per year and one personal holiday. All employees are entitled to these paid holidays on the day they are observed at Cal Poly Pomona, unless they are in non-pay status on the holiday or they are required to work in order to perform necessary services.

21/12/2020

Studio 6 is open 9am-5pm today (12/21) thru Wed (12/23), after which we'll be closed for Winter break. We'll reopen Mon, Jan 4th and will follow-up on requests in the order they're received. Contact info, hours, and services:

Studio 6, a service of eLearning, is an updated computing lab open to faculty and staff for Learning Technology training and assistance.

25/11/2020

Studio 6 and CAFE are closed during the Thanksgiving break. We'll be open thru 7pm today (11/25) to answer your learning tech questions and will return Mon (11/30). Wishing you and yours a happy and safe long weekend

18/11/2020

CAFE is receiving reports of student difficulty logging into the Blackboard mobile application on iOS devices. We're actively investigating and will provide more information ASAP