Training Dates

To sign up for a group training for the spring semester, please see the training schedule for your school.

Course Availability

Just a reminder that all courses are now unavailable to students until faculty make them available. To make your course available, follow these instructions:

How do I make my course available to students?

Blackboard Help

Also, we have a wealth of Blackboard Resources to assist you with your learning curve. Please see the Blackboard ScreenSteps Instructor Knowledge Base for detailed, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials.

Also, we have a Knowledge Base for Students you can refer students to for assistance with Blackboard tasks.

Finally, if you create podcasts for your course and would like to distribute them through Blackboard to your class using iTunes U, please see the Blackboard iTunes U tutorials. If you use CourseCast, please see the CourseCast Help Wiki.

Further Assistance

As always, please contact your school’s Academic Technology department for help, training information, technical issues or further questions.

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Training Dates

To sign up for a group training for the spring semester, please see the training schedule for your school.

Course Availability

Just a reminder that all courses are now unavailable to students until faculty make them available. To make your course available, follow these instructions:

How do I make my course available to students?

Blackboard Help

Also, we have a wealth of Blackboard Resources to assist you with your learning curve. Please see the Blackboard ScreenSteps Instructor Knowledge Base for detailed, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials.

Also, we have a Knowledge Base for Students you can refer students to for assistance with Blackboard tasks.

Finally, if you create podcasts for your course and would like to distribute them through Blackboard to your class using iTunes U, please see the Blackboard iTunes U tutorials. If you use CourseCast, please see the CourseCast Help Wiki.

Further Assistance

As always, please contact your school’s Academic Technology department for help, training information, technical issues or further questions.

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Training Dates

To sign up for a group training for the spring semester, please see the training schedule for your school.

Course Availability

Just a reminder that all courses are now unavailable to students until faculty make them available. To make your course available, follow these instructions:

How do I make my course available to students?

Blackboard Help

Also, we have a wealth of Blackboard Resources to assist you with your learning curve. Please see the Blackboard ScreenSteps Instructor Knowledge Base for detailed, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials.

Also, we have a Knowledge Base for Students you can refer students to for assistance with Blackboard tasks.

Finally, if you create podcasts for your course and would like to distribute them through Blackboard to your class using iTunes U, please see the Blackboard iTunes U tutorials. If you use CourseCast, please see the CourseCast Help Wiki.

Further Assistance

As always, please contact your school’s Academic Technology department for help, training information, technical issues or further questions.

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Training Dates

To sign up for a group training for the fall semester, please see the training schedule for your school.

Course Availability

Just a reminder that all courses are now unavailable to students until faculty make them available. To make your course available, follow these instructions:

How do I make my course available to students?

Blackboard Help

Also, we have a wealth of Blackboard Resources to assist you with your learning curve. Please see the Blackboard ScreenSteps Instructor Knowledge Base for detailed, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials.

Also, we have a Knowledge Base for Students you can refer students to for assistance with Blackboard tasks.

Finally, if you create podcasts for your course and would like to distribute them through Blackboard to your class using iTunes U, please see the Blackboard iTunes U tutorials.

Further Assistance

As always, please contact your school’s Academic Technology department for help, training information, technical issues or further questions.

Stay updated! Subscribe to the Blackboard 9 Blog by Email or by RSS!

Training Dates

To sign up for a group training for the Spring semester, please see the training schedule for your school.

Course Availability

Just a reminder that all courses are now unavailable to students until faculty make them available. To make your course available, follow these instructions:

How do I make my course available to students?

Blackboard Help

Also, we have a created a wealth of Blackboard Resources to assist you with your learning curve. Please see the Blackboard ScreenSteps Instructor Knowledge Base for detailed, easy to follow step-by-step tutorials.

Also, please contact your school’s Academic Technology department for help, training information, technical issues or further questions.

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1. COURSES ARE UNAVAILABLE TO STUDENTS UNTIL YOU MAKE THEM AVAILABLE:
This setting allows you to build your courses privately and only give students access when you are ready. To make a course available to students, please review this quick tutorial: Making Courses Available to Students.

2 . COURSE AND SINGLE FILE SIZE QUOTA
Storage for course materials in a single Blackboard course is limited to 250mb. A single file may not exceed 10mb. These quotas are consistent with those used by several other Universities and will prevent the uploading of large audio and video files which use up costly disk space and slow overall system performance. Blackboard has always advised that users link audio/video files to other storage systems rather than upload them to Blackboard.

There are a few options for adding links to audio/video files in Blackboard:

• Utilize our storage on Itunes U. This is the simplest option as this process is automated in the new Blackboard system
• Request storage space on a University server

For large text files exceeding 10mb:

• you can request University server space
• use third party FREE storage such as Google Docs

The advantages of storing materials in a central storage space, either University-based or third party, include the ability to link to your reusable materials without having to re-upload them to Blackboard every time. Using this method, you will only add links to these larger materials in Blackboard.

Please contact your school’s Academic Technology department for help or questions with any of the above.

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WITH SERVICE RESTORED ON AUG 10 AT 6 A.M. FOR SYSTEM MAINTENANCE.

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Update Sunday July 25th 2:00pm: The maintenance was successful and Blackboard is now up and running smoothly.

There are a few minor changes to the menu items for faculty, along with some new features, such as an easy way to access and post YouTube videos. The How-To Guides section of this blog has been updated accordingly, as has the visual documentation.

For further assistance, please contact the Academic Technology department for your school.

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The Learning System, the component used to build your courses, will not change.

The Community System has been an underused feature of Blackboard for several years. It provided two main functions:

1. The association of users with a school-specific “brand,” i.e., the small CAS, SBS, or Law logo you see at the top of the BB screen.

2. Organizations: With the elimination of the Community System, organizations will now be viewed as “Courses.” Organizations share the same functionality as courses, the only differences being that in a course, you are an “instructor,” in an organization, you are a “leader.” You can continue to have organizations in Blackboard, but now under the “Courses” tab.

All current organizations will be migrated into courses and no materials will be lost. This will be an opportunity to eliminate unused organizations and users and bring the system up to date.

The Content Management System is the component of Blackboard that provides for storage of course materials for reuse in other courses.

Adoption of the Content Management system has been minimal as its functionality is difficult to navigate. In the years that the University has been paying $50,000 annually for the Content system, less than 2 gigabytes of storage space has been utilized. We are exploring alternatives for storage of course materials that will be reused and will update you on this shortly.

We will keep you informed of these changes as they are scheduled to occur. If you have any questions about these changes, please contact your school’s Academic Technology Department.

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The “Blackboard” Tab on the left side of the screen will take you to the new version of Blackboard. Here you will find all Summer I and II 2010 courses. You will also find all your previous courses starting with Fall 08, except Spring 2010 courses.

Because Spring 2010 courses could not be transferred to the new system while they are in use, Spring 2010 courses will not appear in the “Blackboard” tab for approximately two weeks. If you need to access Spring 2010 classes, please click on a second Blackboard tab in My Cruiser, labeled “Blackboard 7.3” (This will be on the far right of the My Cruiser Screen.)

By the end of May, all courses will be available in the “Blackboard Tab” and the “Blackboard Tab 7.3” will be removed.

Fall 2010 courses will be available on the “Blackboard Tab” in approximately two weeks. We will notify you when they are available.

For help or questions, please contact the Academic Technology Department for your school.

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