Monday, February 15, 2021

[BB] Blackboard Upgrade | Call for Volunteers

Hello everyone,

I hope your Spring term is off to a good start, please let us know if there is anything we can do to help!

As the title may suggest, we have some news we'd like to share with you. This year, we are planning to upgrade to the modernized Blackboard Ultra Experience!  This upgrade provides a simple, intuitive, and streamlined course experience for faculty and students.

Now that a test server has been configured, we'd like to invite you to try out the new experience early and help us by providing feedback. While the server is not configured to host students, we can import your courses for review.

We'll be offering more formal workshops and training materials as we announce this initiative more broadly. Information related to the upgrade and future training opportunities will be found here https://academictechnologies.it.miami.edu/explore-technologies/blackboard-ultra-upgrade/index.html

If you're interested in an early look please send us an email to LearningPlatforms@Miami.edu and one of our team members will work with you to get you going. 

We're here to help,

Peter Martinez
Director, Learning Platforms
Academic Technology, UMIT
Gables One Tower, 1050S
P: (305) 284-2215
C: (305) 898-5187