Week's End Report - August 7, 2015

Tip of the Week!

Many of you have been added to your fall courses in Blackboard. If you are teaching online, please remember that all online courses are required to use standard course shells, which are loaded by the Instructional Design Center. We are in the process of loading content into all online courses. If you have access to your course and it is currently empty, please do not do anything with the course until the content has been loaded. Courses must be empty prior to being loaded with the appropriate course shell, so any existing content will be bulk deleted.
 
Note: If you are in a region outside of Lafayette and Kokomo, your region may have different procedures for loading course content. Check with your Online Technologies Coordinator (OTC) or your Program Chair for more information.

Those of you who have access to your loaded fall courses, see the Getting Started website for all the information you need for setting up your course!

http://bit.ly/idcgettingstarted

System Issues

• Blackboard was down Friday, July 31st, from approximately 4:40-5:05 pm.
• Blackboard will be unavailable on Sunday, August 9th from 12:30-6:30 am.
• Exchange (faculty/staff email) and IvyNews will be unavailable, Sunday, August 9th, from 7:00-9:00 am (student email will not be effected).

New Tool Available!

A new tool is available through Blackboard called DropThought. DropThought can be used to collect anonymous student feedback through your course. Collect feedback on assignments, assessments, or on the course in general. For more information, click here: 
 
http://bit.ly/1I7UqRK