Instructional Technology

Don’t forget: there are still two Blackboard 9 Open Labs available this coming week.  Instructional Technologists will be on hand in Beck Instructional Lab during the following days and times:

Monday, August 31st from 1:00 - 4:30
Tuesday, September 1st from 1:00 - 3:00

Please stop by with your Blackboard 9 questions and projects for one on [...]

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Backing up your Blackboard materials is just as important now that we’ve upgraded to version 9. One easy set of materials to back up are Grade Center grades. To aid in this process, we’ve created a step by step tutorial that you can access from the Instructional Technology homepage under Tips, Tricks & [...]

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Have you created Assignments for your students but now you can’t find where they’ve gone? Assignments (not of the SafeAssign or TurnItIn variety) can be found for review and grading by going to the Grade Center. If this doesn’t seem intuitive, we’ve created a step by step tutorial that you can view under the [...]

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Welcome back to another school year! As many of you are aware, OIT upgraded to Blackboard 9. Instructional Technology is holding Open Labs to assist faculty with Blackboard 9. The Open Labs are designed to be flexible and allows the IT staff to customize the training to your specific needs. Come to one of the [...]

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Intel provides a short comparison of the benefits of notebooks vs. the benefits of netbooks. Good view if you are considering making the switch.

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If you are building your Fall 2009 courses in Blackboard 9 now, you may be wondering how to set them to be available for your students. We’ve created a mini visual tutorial just for the job. Go to mellon.washcoll.edu and click the “Blackboard 9: Setting Course Availability” tutorial under Tips, Tricks and Tutorials.
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What a busy few weeks it’s been, tech-fans!  We’ve had Zimbras and Blackboards and the like bursting out of OIT like aliens from chests.  Okay, maybe not with so much bloodshed, but certainly with as much pizzazz!  Of course, aliens don’t really come preceded by training workshops, either.  And that’s where I’ve been instead of [...]

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AppleInsider, a favorite Cupertino rumor runner, published a piece this morning that piqued my interest. Seems that a company called CourseSmart has recently begun publishing college textbooks to the iPhone. The company sells electronic textbooks at coursesmart.com for a significant discount over printed copies. Students and instructors can then download the iPhone [...]

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