Ivy Tech Community College computing policies changed last week to begin blocking all shortened URLs from campus. That means that in order to access the IDC website, the Getting Started website, nor the Online Education website from campus you will no longer be able to use the links we had previously placed in all of our promotional materials.
The statewide proctored testing policies and procedures have recently changed. Please note that from now on the regional sites should no longer be receiving proctor forms. If you have a proctored test you will send the form to one the following addresses (depending upon your region):
proctorform-Lafayette@ivytech.edu
proctorform-Kokomo@ivytech.edu
The old distancetesting-[Site]@lists.ivytech.edu addresses are no longer to be used for distributing test materials to the instructional sites.
This saves a lot of work for you as an instructor. For example, if you are teaching an online course out of Kokomo and you have a proctored test you may have students taking the test out of Kokomo, Logansport, and Rochester but you will only need to send one proctor form to Kokomo and the sites will automatically have access to the form.
NewT Transition Information
The GWC region will be making the transition to NewT on December 2, 2016. Information will be distributed regarding twice-weekly webinars and some other resources that will help make the transition go smoothly.
If you have any questions regarding NewT or the transition you may reach out to one of the following contacts:
Sonia Ninon, 317-921-4256, sninon@ivytech.edu
David Scheblo, 765-473-7281 ext. 9213, dscheblo@ivytech.edu
Training Opportunities
Google for Education free conference!
Education on Air: It Takes a Teacher Free online conference on December 3rd Speakers include:
Eric Schmidt, Chairman Google, Inc.
Dr. Jill Biden, Second Lady of the United
Jahana Hayes, National Teacher of the Year
Lisa Thumann, Director of Professional Learning, EdTechTeam
Student Centered Instruction Webinar Join Jim Musgrave on November 29th at 1 PM (PST) for a free informational webinar on mobile, student-centered teaching through the Embellisher Mobile Publishing, Education and Training Platform.
Looking for good supplemental information for your courses? Check out Ivy Tech's new Virtual Library!
To
access the Virtual Library, log in to Blackboard and click on the
Library tab. On the following page, click on the link for your home
campus. From
your campus's home page you can do a search, locate user guides, ask a
question of your regional Librarian, access Noodle Tools to generate
source citations, and much more! The
Virtual Library is invaluable for research, providing us with access to
thousands of books and journal articles, vetted links to educational
websites, as well as thousands of images and videos. Here are some
examples of resources available on the Virtual Library:
Voices from the Days of Slavery - audio recordings of nearly 7 hours of interviews with former slaves from the American Folklife Center
George Washington Papers
- approximately 65,000 documents from the Manuscript Collection at the
Library of Congress, this is the largest collection of original
Washington documents in the world
Invitation to World Literature - 13 video recordings aimed at helping viewers appreciate literary texts
And much more!
But
the Virtual Library isn't only good for research! There are lots of
resources available for entertainment as well as education, including:
Reel Time - an album from jazz musician Wynton Marsalis
The House on Haunted Hill - a feature film starring Vincent Price
Popeye for President - a classic Popeye cartoon
And much more!
Systems Information
There will be a statewide Windows Update installation over fall break. A few things to remember for this update:
When you leave for fall break please leave your college laptop and make sure that your laptop and/or PC are powered on (i.e. log off of your computer but do not shut it down)
If you connect your laptop to the wireless network, please make sure your laptop is off of the wireless network, but connect it to your docking station
If you take your laptop with you over the break, the next time your laptop connects to the network the update process will automatically begin
Should your computer update process initiate while you're present, you will notice the computer reboot multiple times and the update is expected to take up to 30 minutes; please allow your computer to go through the full update cycle
The update is currently scheduled to begin Thursday, Nov. 24th and run through Sunday, Nov. 27th.
The statewide self-paced QM Custom Rubric Certification course is now available in Blackboard! C4IT has developed a self-paced training for faculty and staff to learn more about the QM Custom Rubric in use for online courses at Ivy Tech. To register, click here and follow the directions.
Systems Information
Blackboard experienced an outage on Saturday evening, Oct. 29th. The outage was reported shortly after 9 pm and was resolved by 9:20 pm. Please work with students who may have been impacted by this outage. Sunday evening, October 30th, some users may have experienced issues attaching files to email. This issue was resolved on Monday, October 31st. Note this error effected only staff and faculty. Students are on Gmail accounts and were not impacted by this issue. Email changes The login screen for faculty email via Outlook Web Access have changed. The change took place at 9 am on Tuesday, November 1st.
Student email underwent an update around 10 pm on the evening of Weds., November 2nd. Email was down for approximately one hour while the update was made and now there is a new look and feel to the initial log-in screen. Students who typically access email via the link in Campus Connect should not notice any change.
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