FYI from CUIT:

According to a message posted on the homepage, Courseworks will be down from 8 PM to 12 AM tonight.  Worry not, friends!  The IT powers that be say Courseworks is “working well,” but just needs some tweaking to “increase performance.”  So download that assignment now!  No need to  wait ’til ten o’clock and be a Procrastinating Patty!  Remember, last time Courseworks went down it took CUIT a bit longer than expected to get it back up, and we don’t want any unrest.  Full message below:

CourseWorks and Sakai will be unavailable TODAY Wednesday Jan 26th 2011 from 8 PM to 12 AM. At this time CourseWorks and Sakai will be moved to their own dedicated database servers. This is being done to ensure service reliability and increase performance. CourseWorks and Sakai are working well now and we continue to closely monitor them.
We regret the inconvenience this will cause (01/26/11 8:40am)

Update: According to its homepage, Courseworks will NOT be down for maintenance tonight after all. See the update below.