Professional Development Opportunity

ePortfolios for Faculty and Students webinar scheduled for Wednesday, March 18th at 1:00 pm EST. To register go to: http://goo.gl/oGHI0r
Webinar description: Participants will explore the use of the Blackboard ePortfolios in Higher Education from the faculty perspective. At the end of the session you will be able to identity potential uses for ePortfolios, effectively plan for ePortfolio use, create sample ePortfolios and share ePortfolio snapshots both inside and outside Ivy Tech.
A recording will be made available for those who are unable to attend the live webinar.

New Resources

How to take a quiz and view your quiz results in Blackboard, for new students: http://youtu.be/zg8EwOrCT_k
How to participate in a discussion board, for new students: http://youtu.be/wU2WnHeJu6s
How to submit assignments, for new students: http://youtu.be/K_8mfQDv-24
All of our YouTube videos are now Closed Captioned!

The New Media Consortium Horizon Report - 2015 Higher Education Edition is now available: http://www.nmc.org/publication/nmc-horizon-report-2015-higher-education-edition/
Some of the trends being identified are:

Cross-Institutional collaboration
Increased use of Open Educational Resources (OER)
Blended learning
Looking at commercial technologies and implementing them in the classroom (Bring Your Own Device [BYOD])

Blackboard will be unavailable Thursday, March 12th from 12:00 am to 1:00 am (emergency maintenance)
Blackboard will be unavailable Friday, March 13th from 12:00 am to 6:45 am (planned maintenance)
Ivy Appointment will be unavailable beginning 9:00 pm on Saturday, March 14th and will become available at 12:00 pm on Sunday, March 15th
Certification & Assessment Scheduling System (CASS) will be unavailable from 6:00 am - 9:00 am on Sunday, March 15th (students will not be able to schedule exams through the self-service application during this time)
Banner, Campus Connect, CAS and Discoverer will be unavailable from 11:00 pm - 11:30 pm on Wednesday, March 18th