Dear Blackboard Users,
The Blackboard upgrade is now completed and ready for access. Should you have any issues, please send an email to blackboardhelp@miami.edu or call 305-284-3949 and leave a voice mail, we will get back to you as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Learning Platforms Team.
Dear Blackboard users,
The Blackboard upgrade has begun and it will not be available until Friday, Dec. 26th in the evening. Updates will be posted at http://blackboardinfo.weebly.com
Thank you for your patience during this process
Learning Platforms Team
Instructional Designer for Academic Technologies
Learning, Innovation and Faculty Engagement
139 Ungar Building
305-284-9031
“Watch your Thoughts because they become your Words, watch your words because they become your Actions, watch your actions as they become your Habits, watch your habits as they become your Character, and watch your character as this becomes your Destiny…” Freeman A. Hrabowski
Instructional Designer for Academic Technologies
Learning, Innovation and Faculty Engagement
139 Ungar Building
305-284-9031
“Watch your Thoughts because they become your Words, watch your words because they become your Actions, watch your actions as they become your Habits, watch your habits as they become your Character, and watch your character as this becomes your Destiny…” Freeman A. Hrabowski
On September 11, 2014 at 1:02:47 PM, Ramos, Ricardo (r.ramos3@miami.edu) wrote:
Dear Blackboard Users,
SafeAssign is currently experiencing a service outage. Please follow http://status.blackboard.com for further updates.
Thanks,
Rick Ramos
Help Desk Supervisor
(P): 305-284-3949
Dear Blackboard Users,
SafeAssign is currently experiencing a service outage. Please follow http://status.blackboard.com for further updates.
Thanks,
Rick Ramos
Help Desk Supervisor
(P): 305-284-3949
Dear Blackboard Users,
With the beginning of every semester, you might like to have your Blackboard course sites setup in a specific way. Below are services we offer for your course sites. Let us know if we can do any of these, or anything else to assist you at the start of the semester. Send email to blackboardhelp@miami.edu or call 305-284-3949 to make a request or get assistance.
1. Course Merge
If you teach multiple sections of a course, or have both graduate and undergraduate students in the same course, it may be easier to combine them into one Blackboard course site, rather than have a separate site for each section. With the merged site, you can post your course material once rather than posting it in each section’s site separately.
Note: This should be done before any activity takes place in the course sites. Please be aware User records, such as discussion board posts, grades, and assessment attempts will not be copied to the new site.
2. Course Augment
There is also the option to do a course "augment" which will maintain all of your original course sites and add one additional master site with all of the students from your various sections. With the course augment option you can use the master site to post course material in one location, and reserve the individual section course sites for assignments or tests specific to each course section.
3. Course Copy
If you have material from a prior semester that you would like to copy into the course site you are setting up, you can call us to do a course copy for you or you can follow the steps at the link below to do it yourself:
http://goo.gl/uq1qU
Note: You need to be enrolled as an instructor in both the source and destination courses sites in order to perform a Course Copy. User records, such as discussion board posts, grades, and assessment attempts will not be copied. Do NOT copy course enrollments.
4. Teaching Assistant enrollment
Teaching assistants are not added automatically to your class, they have to be entered manually. You can have us do it for you or you can do it yourself using the instructions at the following link:
http://goo.gl/ON85r
5. Course Availability
When created, course sites are unavailable to students. We can make them available for you or you can follow these easy steps to do it yourself:
Please feel free to contact us for any issues you might have. Our business hours are from Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm and our phone number is 305-284-3949 or you can email us at blackboardhelp@miami.edu
Your Blackboard team
(P): 305-284-3949
Dear Blackboard users,
Please join us on Wednesday, 5/7/2014, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., for our "UM Bb Office Hours" webinar. You can participate from your office, your home, or anywhere you can get an internet connection. Sessions will take place using Collaborate, the web conferencing system built into Blackboard.
Go to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb, enter your name, and the Collaborate java application should start. It should all be automatic, but it may take a few minutes the first time you do it. You can even try it out right now, to make sure you can get in.
This week there will be presentations about end of semester activities (archive course, export grade center, export grade history) and flipped classroom, Dr. Wang from the Biology department will be talking about his experience in the topic. There will also be plenty of time for open discussion and questions.
We plan on doing this every Wednesday at 3:30 pm. We hope you can join us
Blackboard Collaborate first time users click here to check systems requirements.
Thank you,
Rick Ramos
Help Desk Supervisor
(P): 305-284-3949
Hello Blackboard Users,
Inline Grading Unavailable - The outside server that processes documents for inline grading is currently down. To work around this, please download the document on the lower right side of the inline grading interface.
Your Blackboard team
(P): 305-284-3949
Hello blackboard users,
Please be aware the Blackboard inline grading tool that allows you to preview assignments in the grade center is currently not working. Blackboard is aware of the issue and working on fixing it as soon as possible.
We will inform you as soon as a fix is in place.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact the Blackboard team at: (305) 284-3949 or blackboardhelp@miami.edu.
Sincerely,
Your Blackboard team
(P): 305-284-3949
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Dear Blackboard Users,
On April 1st the Learning Platforms team in Academic Technologies, a part of UMIT, will be announcing the availability of the Blackboard Collaborate system for webinars and web conferencing. The event will take place 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm. You can attend in person at Richter Library, Room 305, or online at the http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb web site. To register, please go to http://iacevents.org and select the session you wish to attend.
Blackboard Collaborate has been available inside of Blackboard Learn for a while. Now it will be available outside of Blackboard Learn as a full webinar and web conferencing system. Blackboard Collaborate supports video, audio, presentations, and screen sharing. People do not have to be part of UM in order to be a participant or a moderator of a session.
If you are interested in using the Blackboard Collaborate system, please attend the exciting announcement on April 1st. For more information about this event, or special accommodations, please contact Rick Ramos at either 305-284-3949 or r.ramos3@miami.edu .
Thank you,
Rick Ramos
Help Desk Supervisor
(P): 305-284-3949
Dear Blackboard users,
Please join us on Wednesday, 2/26/2014, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., for our "UM Bb Office Hours" webinar. You can participate from your office, your home, or anywhere you can get an internet connection. Sessions will take place using Collaborate, the web conferencing system built into Blackboard.
Go to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb, enter your name, and the Collaborate java application should start. It should all be automatic, but it may take a few minutes the first time you do it. You can even try it out right now, to make sure you can get in.
There will be presentations on using Collaborate as a participant, leading a Collaborate session and Blackboard adaptive release. There will also be plenty of time for open discussion and questions.
We plan on doing this every Wednesday at 3:30 pm. We hope you can join us
Rick Ramos
Help Desk Supervisor
(P): 305-284-3949
Dear Blackboard users,
Please join us on Wednesday, 2/12/2014, 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., for our "UM Bb Office Hours" webinar. You can participate from your office, your home, or anywhere you can get an internet connection. Sessions will take place using Collaborate, the web conferencing system built into Blackboard.
Go to http://tinyurl.com/umiamibb, enter your name, and the Collaborate java application should start. It should all be automatic, but it may take a few minutes the first time you do it. You can even try it out right now, to make sure you can get in.
There will be presentations on adding a Kaltura video in your course, creating a banner and/or changing the theme, and using surveys for classroom assessments. There will also be plenty of time for open discussion and questions.
We plan on doing this every Wednesday at 3:30 pm. We hope you can join us
Rick Ramos
Help Desk Supervisor
(P): 305-284-3949
Dear Blackboard users,
The SafeAssign database experienced connection problems which caused a SafeAssign outage. The services have been restored and can be accessed again.
If you have questions or concerns about these upcoming changes, please contact the Blackboard team at: (305) 284-3949 or blackboardhelp@miami.edu.
Regards,
Rick Ramos
Help Desk Supervisor
(P): 305-284-3949
Dear Blackboard Users,
We are experiencing some issues with accessing the safe assign tool. We are working with Blackboard to re-establish the service as soon as possible.
We apologize for the inconvenience,
If you have questions or concerns about these upcoming changes, please contact the Blackboard team at: (305) 284-3949 or blackboardhelp@miami.edu.
Regards,
Rick Ramos
Help Desk Supervisor
(P): 305-284-3949
Blackboard Users,
With the beginning of every semester, you might like to have your Blackboard course sites setup in a specific way. Below are services we offer for your course sites. Let us know if we can do any of these, or anything else to assist you at the start of the semester. Send email to blackboardhelp@miami.edu or call 305-284-3949 to make a request or get assistance.
1. Course Merge
If you teach multiple sections of a course, or have both graduate and undergraduate students in the same course, it may be easier to combine them into one Blackboard course site, rather than have a separate site for each section. With the merged site, you can post your course material once rather than posting it in each section’s site separately.
Note: This should be done before any activity takes place in the course sites. Please be aware User records, such as discussion board posts, grades, and assessment attempts will not be copied to the new site.
2. Course Augment
There is also the option to do a course "augment" which will maintain all of your original course sites and add one additional master site with all of the students from your various sections. With the course augment option you can use the master site to post course material in one location, and reserve the individual section course sites for assignments or tests specific to each course section.
3. Course Copy
If you have material from a prior semester that you would like to copy into the course site you are setting up, you can call us to do a course copy for you or you can follow the steps at the link below to do it yourself:
http://goo.gl/uq1qU
Note: You need to be enrolled as an instructor in both the source and destination courses sites in order to perform a Course Copy. User records, such as discussion board posts, grades, and assessment attempts will not be copied. Do NOT copy course enrollments.
4. Teaching Assistant enrollment
Teaching assistants are not added automatically to your class, they have to be entered manually. You can have us do it for you or you can do it yourself using the instructions at the following link:
http://goo.gl/ON85r
5. Course Availability
When created, course sites are unavailable to students. We can make them available for you or you can follow these easy steps to do it yourself:
Please feel free to contact us for any issues you might have. Our business hours are from Monday to Friday from 9am to 5pm and our phone number is 305-284-3949 or you can email us atblackboardhelp@miami.edu
Your Blackboard team
(P): 305-284-3949
Dear Blackboard users,
SoftChalk Create is a program, licensed by UM, that makes it easy to create on-line learning activities. UM IT Academic Technologies has arranged for some training next week to introduce you to SoftChalk Create and to help you develop some material that you can use in your Blackboard course site. You can either join us in the Faculty Exploratory, Room 305, in Richter Library for the webinars or participate in the sessions from the convenience of your home or office.
To register for the Faculty Exploratory events, please go to www.iacevents.org. To register so that you can participate at your own computer, use the "gotomeeting" links below.
Tuesday, Jan. 7th – 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/367119920
This one-hour Short Course class will show the many features of SoftChalk Create. In the overview, you will see how to take a Word document and easily make it into an interactive web page, how to save your lesson, add a design style, create interactive activities and text annotations. Lastly, you'll see how to place your lesson for delivery in a Blackboard.
Thursday, Jan. 9th – 1:00pm - 4:00pm EST - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/858116280
This three and a half hour class will cover the advanced features of SoftChalk. In this webinar you will learn how to:
When you register you will be asked to download a file. This file is necessary for you to participate in the class.
If you have questions or concerns, please contact the Blackboard team at: (305) 284-3949 or blackboardhelp@miami.edu.
Regards,
Your Blackboard Team
(P): 305-284-3949
