Week's End Report - April 3, 2015

Tip of the Week!

The most widely requested and much anticipated Blackboard feature of all time has now been made available!

You may now set up Blackboard to send you an e-mail notification any time you receive a Course Message in Blackboard!

Click here for instructions: http://bit.ly/idcmsgnotification

Blackboard Upgrade/Notification

• Blackboard will be unavailable from 12:30 am - 6:30 am Friday, April 17
• Effective Saturday, May 16th, Blackboard will contain only courses that are two years old or newer. This means that courses from Summer 2011 (201110) through Spring 2013 (201230) will no longer be available on Blackboard.
• Prior to this switch, please make sure you archive, export, copy or download any materials you need from courses from these semesters.
• For more information about archiving and exporting, see the website: http://bit.ly/idcbbexportarchive

Training Opportunity

• Kokomo will be finishing the transition to the VOIP phone system on Weds. April 22nd after 5 pm.
• Training sessions will be held at Kokomo Main room M201 on Tues., April 21st and Weds. April 22nd at 8am, 9am, 10am, 11am, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm
• Only 12 seats are available for each time, so sign up to ensure you get into the session you want to attend!
• Please sign up for training by e-mailing Jean at eheflin1@ivytech.edu
• If you missed the ePortfolios training session on March 18th, you can view the archive of the presentation here: http://tinyurl.com/ePortfolios2015

Training Update

• All Ivy Tech employees are required to complete the “Information Security User Awareness Training.” To access this session:
• Log on the Campus Connect
• Select the Employee Services tab
• Click on the Ivy Tech Training Portal link located in the Training section
• Select the My Training tab (this is the default tab but will initially be blank, click on the tab to refresh the display)
• Click on the CBTs & Webinars tab
• Look for CBT - Information Security User Awareness Training
• Click the Launch link to start the training
• At the end of the session, click the Information Security User Awareness Confirmation button
• Scroll down to Information Security User Awareness Confirmation 2015
• Click Execute
• Complete the confirmation and click Submit Test
• After you’ve completed the confirmation you can click the Result button and download a PDF of your record