Week's End Report - April 21st

Countdown to IvyLearn

43 Days

Dates

• May 13th  - Attend training and Open Lab before this date!
• Currently May 13th is the last day for official SuperUser support.  After this date, training opportunities and availability of assistance will be extremely limited.  If you need help transitioning your content, it must be done before this date.

• June 1st - Have EVERYTHING out of Blackboard before this date!
• While we will have access to Blackboard until June 30th, we expect there to be significant degradation in system performance, meaning ti will take longer to et your content out and Blackboard is more likely to go down and be inaccessible after this date.

• June 30th - Blackboard and all Blackboard products (including Blackboard IM and Collaborate) become inaccessible.
• Anything  that's not out of Blackboard before this date is lost forever.  This applies to both faculty and students, so please help us spread the word. Blackboard IM is being replaced with Google Hangouts.  Hangouts is a completely different type of tool, so we highly recommend experimenting with it now.

What you need to do....

• Keep reading this blog!
• Get training now!  Time is running out!
• Transition your content now! If you need assistance, please attend an Open Lab session.
• Tell your students about the transition.  They also need to get everything out of Blackboard before June 1st. 

Training Opportunities

• Bi-regional SuperUser training calendar:  https://sites.google.com/view/ivylearn/training/training-calendar

• Statewide Training Calendar: https://www.ivytech.edu/ivylearn/17825.html

• Recorded version of Level I Training:  https://sites.google.com/view/ivylearn/training/level-i-training

• Statewide Webinar Archives (more archives can be found on the Statewide training calendar page listed above)
• Custom Notification Settings:  https://youtu.be/s56jr65X4RM
• How to Import Content: https://youtu.be/nmHNOiwDpjo
• How to Add Course Content: https://youtu.be/GNV1mbQKXnM

• IvyLearn Resource Center:  Login to IvyLearn, click the Help icon in the IvyLearn navigation bar, then click on IvyLearn Resource Center (second link in menu)

Information Resources

• Bi-Regional IvyLearn website: https://sites.google.com/view/ivylearn
• Online Educational website (for students): https://sites.google.com/view/onlineeducation
• Bi-regional SuperUser Contacts: https://sites.google.com/view/ivylearn/superusers

New Instructional Design Center (IDC) website

• https://sites.google.com/view/gwc-idc
• New "Getting Started" checklists are available to assist you with setting up your summer courses

Google Hangouts

Need help with Google Hangouts?  Don't know where to start?  Don't know what it is? Check out the following website: 

• https://gsuite.google.com/learning-center/products/hangouts/get-started/

  Important Announcements

• We have ALL regional online courses transitioned to IvyLearn (we started with 106 courses!!)
• If we have reached out to you by email in regards to a transitioned course, please make sure you make the requested adjustments and reply to the email you received when you've completed the course