Week's End Report - Sept. 23rd

Tip of the Week!

Beginning in the spring 2017, courses will become available in Blackboard 48 hours before the official course start date in Banner.

For example, if your course has a start date in Banner of Monday, January 9th, 2017, the course will become available in Blackboard during the morning of Saturday, January 7th. 

New Blackboard Tool:  Voice Threads
The college has recently added Voice Threads to Blackboard.  Below is a link from a recorded training session along with some tutorials and updates:

Here are additional training materials from VoiceThread:

Here is the recording from Wednesday’s Ivy Tech training session: https://voicethread.com/share/8217395/

Here is the link to our YouTube channel, where faculty can find tutorials and subscribe to get our latest updates:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXggZ2yUPudu9EKx5ZtrdAw

Here is our workshop page, with archived recordings on the right:

https://voicethread.com/workshops

 
Systems Information
Cengage had emergency maintenance on Sunday,  September 18th from 8pm - 8:50pm.  During this time Cengage was completely offline.  Please work with your students on turning in assignments if they experienced this outage.

All Banner modules and Direct Student Load Requests will be unavailable Sunday, September 25th from 11am - midnight.