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Beyond Blackboard. Technology to enhance any classroom. Media. The NEW Blackboard 8.0. Blackboard will be down May 11 – May 18 What’s New is back!! New Announcement, Email, and Messages features Tree View is back on the Discussion Board The Grade Center
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Beyond Blackboard Technology to enhance any classroom Media
The NEW Blackboard 8.0 • Blackboard will be down May 11 – May 18 • What’s New is back!! • New Announcement, Email, and Messages features • Tree View is back on the Discussion Board • The Grade Center • Adding new products – wikis, blogs, and scholar
CLICK FOR HELP! • For Faculty • Quick Guides to: • Pronto • StudyMate • Respondus • Full info on Blackboard 8 • For Students • Quick Guide for Blackboard • Pronto • Hints and tips • FAQs
Free Student Orientation to Online Learning • Plan when to work on your course and how to access • Adding information on proctors • Gather your materials • Learn to use Blackboard • Featuring the new Blackboard 8 • Prepare to communicate with your faculty • NEW – Faculty “requirements” • Check Click for Help after April 25 for more info
Ivy Tech Tools • Virtual Library • For “distance learners” • For Faculty • Campus Connect • Faculty Web Available Now!
Media Server • Distribute audio podcasts while protecting your intellectual property • Soon distribute video casts with the same ease Media Available Now! New features coming soon!
Creating Podcasts is Easy • Use any tool you like that will create an MP3 file – we like Audacity • Record with an inexpensive microphone • Add to the media server and select your settings • Add a URL to Blackboard, iTunes, or any other feed reader
SafeAssign • Provides an originality report to both the student and the faculty member • Builds an institutional database of previous work submitted by students Available Now!
Scholar • Quickly add and categorize bookmarks to any Blackboard course • Share and have students share links in a “scholar”-ly search tool Available Now!
Pronto • Instantly links students and faculty – no need to remember usernames/systems • Simple interface • Text and voice chat both individually and groups Available Now!
Test creation and management. • Blackboard 7.x settings and ability to require Respondus LockDown Browser. • Options of retrieve tests that already exist in your Blackboard course. Available Now!
Publishes game-like learning objects to flash output. • Publish directly to Blackboard. • Insert graphics or embed audio. Available Now!
Respondus – Lock Down Browser • Prevent students from accessing other programs while they are taking an exam • Locks out more than 500 applications – and the number increases every day • Simple to install and use Available Now!
LDB - Limitations • For exam to work with LDB, the faculty member MUST create the exam in Respondus • Windows - Works only with IE 5.5 and above • Macintosh – requires OSX 10.3.0 or higher Available Now!
JournalLX • Course based blogging. • Able to share the blog with the whole course or just with the instructor. • Ability to generate RSS feeds of posts. Coming in the New Blackboard 8!
TeamsLX • Team-based wiki for your Blackboard coursesite. • Tracks edits by contributor for easy grading of group projects. • Allows for group shared web authoring with a wsyiwyg interface. Coming in the new Blackboard 8!