Week's End Report - Oct. 30, 2015

Tip of the Week!

Spring courses in Blackboard will become available to faculty beginning December 14th.

Please note, there are two different types of course “loading” - instructor loading and course content loading.

• Instructor loading- Each school inputs instructors into their courses through Banner. Once the courses become available to instructors through Blackboard, any instructor who has been assigned to a course through Banner will then be able to access the course in Blackboard. You will not see spring courses in Blackboard until after December 14th. If you do not see your course in Blackboard after December 14th, it is because your school has not put you into Banner. To remedy this, you must speak to your school. After you've been added to your course in Banner, allow 36 hours for the course to appear in Blackboard.
• Course content loading- Statewide online course content is loaded by the Center for Instructional Technology, regional online course content is loaded by your regional Online Technologies Coordinators. All courses must use the same 16-session formatted original course as loaded into their live course, 16-week courses complete one session per week, eight-week courses complete two sessions per week, etc. Instructors are not permitted to make changes to assignments or to course layout. You may post clarifying information or supplemental materials, but graded assignments may not be changed.
   

Training Opportunities

Event: GoToMeeting 101: The Basics webinar
When: Thursday, November 5, 10 am (PST) / 1 pm (EST)
To register: Click here

ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) has a large number of archived webinars available on their website. These archives include presenter biographies, recorded presentations, digital copies of presentation materials, and more!

Click here to access currently available webinars!

System Update

Issues were experienced with Campus Connect, email, etc. on Tuesday afternoon, October 27th. Issues began at approximately 1:30 pm and continued until approximately 4:00 pm.

A Banner upgrade will take place beginning at 7 pm on Friday, Oct. 30th and ending at 7 pm on Saturday, Oct. 31st. Tools affected include:

• Banner INB
• Banner SSB
• All third-party Banner systems (ODS, Ivy Markets, Evisions, etc.)