[BB] Tue, 8/1/17, 10:30-11:30am - Videos for Blackboard

On Tuesday, 8/1/17 (tomorrow!), at 10:30 am, the NBC Learn team will demonstrate how to use their videos in your Blackboard course sites. We have a site license for these short videos. They cover a wide range of interesting topics. Please join us to learn more about this valuable service so you can add it to your course design toolkit.

Register here:  http://tinyurl.com/umnbclearn08012017 

— Bill — 

William Vilberg

Director of Learning Platforms

University of Miami

Re: [BB] NBC Learn Virtual Workshops for UM (Aug 1st or 15th)

Bill--

Attached is index and front matter  for the book.  I tried to download dictate.ms but unsuccessful (so far) in running it with .ppt. 

Regards, 

MEM

 

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Subject: [BB] NBC Learn Virtual Workshops for UM (Aug 1st or 15th)

 

UM Blackboard users,

Would you like to increase engagement in your course? NBC Learn has videos that may be of use in stimulating thought and discussion. They are short, topical, and can be used in a wide variety of disciplines. Students want to know how their courses relate to their lives. Watching and discussion a video related to a course topic can provide that important link.

Attend a one-hour webinar on Tuesday, August 1, 2017, or August 15, 2017, 10:30-11:30 AM, for a demonstration for UM faculty of this valuable tool. 

• Register for August 1st session: http://tinyurl.com/umnbclearn08012017
• Register for August 15th session: http://tinyurl.com/umnbclearn08152017 

(Both sessions are the same.)

Don't have time to look through all the thousands of short videos available? If you send NBCLearn a copy of your course syllabus at account.management@nbcuni.com, they will look through their collection and suggest videos for the various units, chapters, or topics you cover. This is a free service, so why not give it a try? Turn around is fast, usually in a day or so. Don't have your new syllabus? Send the one from the last time you taught the class. 

Want to see a sample video? Watch "Is Free Speech Dying on College Campuses" to get a taste of the NBC Content delivery technique. (Because the web player uses Flash, you should watch this video in Firefox or Internet Explorer, not in Chrome.)

— Bill — 

(If you save this PDF attachment and then open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader, the links will work correctly.)

William Vilberg

Director, Learning Platforms

University of Miami

305-284-3944

[BB] NBC Learn Virtual Workshops for UM (Aug 1st or 15th)

UM Blackboard users,

Would you like to increase engagement in your course? NBC Learn has videos that may be of use in stimulating thought and discussion. They are short, topical, and can be used in a wide variety of disciplines. Students want to know how their courses relate to their lives. Watching and discussion a video related to a course topic can provide that important link.

Attend a one-hour webinar on Tuesday, August 1, 2017, or August 15, 2017, 10:30-11:30 AM, for a demonstration for UM faculty of this valuable tool. 

• Register for August 1st session: http://tinyurl.com/umnbclearn08012017
• Register for August 15th session: http://tinyurl.com/umnbclearn08152017 

(Both sessions are the same.)

Don't have time to look through all the thousands of short videos available? If you send NBCLearn a copy of your course syllabus at account.management@nbcuni.com, they will look through their collection and suggest videos for the various units, chapters, or topics you cover. This is a free service, so why not give it a try? Turn around is fast, usually in a day or so. Don't have your new syllabus? Send the one from the last time you taught the class. 

Want to see a sample video? Watch "Is Free Speech Dying on College Campuses" to get a taste of the NBC Content delivery technique. (Because the web player uses Flash, you should watch this video in Firefox or Internet Explorer, not in Chrome.)

— Bill — 

(If you save this PDF attachment and then open it in Adobe Acrobat Reader, the links will work correctly.)

William Vilberg

Director, Learning Platforms

University of Miami

305-284-3944

[BB] VoiceThread Workshops

Blackboard users,

VoiceThread is one of the many features available in our Blackboard Learn system. It is a strange feature; until you understand it, it makes no sense, at least to me. Here are some workshops that give you a chance to learn how it works so that you can decide whether it might be something you want to add to your course design.

— Bill — 

No Images? Click here Join us in August for our free workshops! If you are new to VoiceThread or just want some new ideas, we can help you with these interactive and hands-on workshops. See All Workshops   VoiceThread Basics 1 - Upload, Comment, and Share​ August 8 at 2:00pm ET - Register here Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop. It is open to both VoiceThread license holders and free members. VoiceThread Basics 2 - Groups and Secure Sharing August 16 at 2:00pm ET - Register here In the Basics 2 session, we will begin to explore the features available to VoiceThreaders with a full license. Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals. VoiceThread Basics 3 - Moderating Comments, Private and Threaded Replies, and Copying August 22 at 2:00pm ET - Register here In our third workshop in the series, participants will learn how to use comment moderation to formatively assess student work, give private feedback, use threaded commenting, and copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups. VoiceThread Basics 4 - VoiceThread and your LMS August 29 at 2:00pm ET - Register here We will work on integrating VoiceThread into a learning management system. With LMS integration educators can create and share VoiceThreads and grade student work. Participants will learn how to use the assignment builder feature to assess student work during a hands-on segment.   About the Workshops These workshops are completely free. The Basics workshops are led by our instructional designers George Haines and Tanisha Jackson.  George and Tanisha will share their expertise to help you get the most from VoiceThread.

[BB] Amazing PowerPoint add-in does live closed captions

Microsoft has released an amazing add-on that provides live closed captioning during a PowerPoint presentation. I saw it on Monday and it just went live for everyone. Take a look and try it out. For normal speech it is amazing. Don't know how it will handle the technical terms we often use in higher education.

https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/12/microsofts-live-translation-tool-for-powerpoint-is-now-open-to-all/

Sincerely,

- Bill -

[BB] Changing Blackboard SSL certificate on Sunday morning

Blackboard Users,

The SSL certificate for Blackboard is scheduled to be updated on Sunday morning, 6/18/2017, between 2am and 6am. The SSL certificate is used to allow for encryption between your browser and the Bkackboard server. This change should not create any problems or issues, but I wanted to let you know in case you see a warning or request to accept the new certificate.

Please contact the Learning Platforms help desk at blackboardhelp@miami.edu or 305-284-3949 if you need assistance. The help desk is staffed Sat and Sun 9am-2pm, M-Th 9am-9pm, F 9am-6pm,.

-- Bill --

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[BB] Learning Platforms moves to Gables One Tower June 8, 2017

Learning Platforms, the group that manages Blackboard and other learning support systems and UM, will be moving from Richter Library, Room 325, to Gables One Tower, Suite 1050, on June 8, 2017. This will more fully integrate us with UM Information Technology and allow us to improve the value of the systems we manage. Rest assured that we will do our best to continue to meet and exceed your expectations with regard to supporting you in your most important role transforming lives through teaching. 

-- 
Bill Vilberg

[BB] A new teaching tool: VoiceThread on Blackboard

Summer is a great time to think about how to improve the student learning experience in your classes. A series of webinars have been announced in June and July that cover a Blackboard tool called VoiceThread. If you have time, please sign up for one or more of these sessions to learn about this tool and then reflect about how you could incorporate it into your courses. Session topics include "VoiceThread and STEM Classes​,: "VoiceThread and Storytelling," and "VoiceThread for Nursing Educators." 

http://voicethread.createsend1.com/t/y-e-hihhlyy-jditlluya-k/

If you plan to use it in your classes, please let us know so we can help, if needed, and also share your experience with other faculty at the Univerisity of Miami.

-- 
Bill Vilberg

[BB] Blackboard Emergency maintenance

 

 

 

Service Alert    Due to an emergency maintenance, Blackboard will be unavailable from Tuesday, May 16th at 2:00 a.m. through 5 a.m.[   If you have questions related to this issue, please contact the UMIT Blackboard Help Desk: (305) 284-3949 (leave voicemail), blackboardhelp@miami.edu.   Thank you.

/umiamiit              @umitsupport

[BB] Faculty Showcase 2017

Greetings!

 

You are invited…

To Academic Technologies’ Faculty Showcase, a free event sponsored by the Knight Foundation on May 16^th, presented by faculty for faculty, providing practical guidance on how faculty can transform course(s) through narrative techniques and educational technology. Spaces are limited.

 

Share your expertise!  

We would like to also invite faculty to speak at the Showcase and submit a proposal for the day (deadline March 24^th). There are a number of options, you can speak as an individual or a group, lead a discussion, or exhibit your work as a digital poster session, both for only 45 minutes. Our goal is for faculty to share their experiences and guide other faculty in new ideas for educational experiences.

 

Feel free to forward the invitation to your colleagues, and we hope to see you on the day!

 

Thank you.

 

 

Faculty Showcase 2017: Register Now! Transforming Teaching and Learning Through Storytelling          To all adventurers, innovators, and inquisitive educators! The University of Miami Academic Technologies team welcomes the academic community at the university to register now for the annual Faculty Showcase.        Presented by faculty for faculty, this free event will journey through interactive narratives and practical guidance on how you can transform your course(s) through narrative techniques and educational technology.       REGISTER NOW: Faculty Showcase 2017 May 16, 2017 from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Donna E. Shalala Student Center – 3rd Floor        Register now to reserve your place. Space is limited to the first 150 participants.      REGISTER NOW

/umiamiit               @umitsupport

 

 

[BB] Blackboard SafeAssign processing delay

 

​ Service Alert    Blackboard SafeAssign is experiencing high paper load. We are seeing delays in paper processing time up to 13 hours. We apologize for any inconvenience these delays may be causing.   If you have questions related to this issue, please contact the UMIT Blackboard Help Desk: (305) 284-3949, blackboardhelp@miami.edu.     Thank you.

/umiamiit              @umitsupport

 

[BB] Spring 2017 Blackboard Learn Course Setup Assistance

Dear Blackboard Users,

 

We are here to assist you with the tasks that are often done when setting up a Blackboard course site. Let us know if we can do any of these, or anything else, to assist you at the start of this semester. Send email to blackboardhelp@miami.edu, call 305-284-3949, or when available fill out the form, to make a request or get assistance.

1.       Course Site Availability

When created, course sites are unavailable to students. This way you can set them up before the students access them. Call or email us and we can make them available to your students, or you can follow these easy steps to do it yourself:

·         instuctions for using Qwickly to make course available

 

2.       Course Site 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. Tell us what sites you want merged and we will take care of it for you.

·         Form to request a course merge

Note: Courses should be merged before any student activity takes place in the course sites for the various sections. User records, such as discussion board posts, grades, and assessment attempts, will not show up in the new, merged, site.

3.       Course Site Augment

We can do a course "augment" rather than a course merge if you would like. An augment maintains all of your original course sites and adds 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.  Fill out the form below or call to request a course augment.

·         Video about course merges and augments (15 minutes)

·         Form to request a course augment

 

4.       Course Site 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 or email us, or fill out the form below, and we will do a course copy for you. You can also follow the steps at the link below to do it yourself:

·         Course Copy instructions

·         Video about course copies (7 minutes)

·         Form to request a course copy

 

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.

 

5.       Teaching Assistant enrollment

Teaching assistants are not added automatically to your class, they have to be entered manually. Email or call us and will be happy to do it for you, or you can do it yourself using the instructions at the following link:

·         instructions for Enrolling Users to Blackboard instructions

 

 

Please feel free to contact us for any requests and issues you might have.  Our phone number is 305-284-3949 or you can email us at blackboardhelp@miami.edu. Our business hours are Monday to Friday from 9 am to 9 pm.

 

 

 

Learning Platforms Team

(P): 305-284-3949

 

[BB] Blackboard has been upgraded to version "9.1 Q2 2016"

Dear Blackboard users,

The UMIT Learning Platforms Team has completed the update to the University Of Miami Blackboard to version “9.1 Q2 2016” on  Monday December 26th 2016. This upgrade will enhance our current version with with several bug fixes.

Some users may still see a cached version of a page stating that Blackboard is still unavailable. If you attempt to access Blackboard after December 26th, 2016  and see this error, please feel free to contact the Blackboard Help Desk by emailing blackboardhelp@miami.edu. This issue might also be resolved by clearing the cache in your web browser.

Instructions for Clearing Cache: Internet Explorer , Mozilla Firefox , Google Chrome , Safari

Below are some of the improvements that are featured in this upgrade:

Release Notes: Learn 9.1 Q2 2016

Thanks,

Your Blackboard Team

305-284-3949

blackboardhelp@miami.edu

[BB] Blackboard upgrade notice!

 

​ Service Alert    Due to an upgrade, Blackboard will be unavailable on Sunday December 25th 2016, starting at 10:00 p.m. through Monday December 26th 11:59 p.m.   The upgrade does not include major changes to functionalities, it will be mostly internal bug fixes. You still will have the familiar look and feel we currently have.   ·         Upgrade information   If you have questions related to this issue, please contact the UMIT Blackboard Help Desk: (305) 284-3949, blackboardhelp@miami.edu. Thank you.

/umiamiit              @umitsupport

 

 

Blackboard Team

(P): 305-284-3949

blackboardhelp@miami.edu

 

 

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• This Only One Google Adwords Coupon work per account .
• You can use in new ad accounts  or less than 30 days old accounts.
• Expiry of Coupon is December 2016.
• You need to spend 500 Rupees to get this extra credit worth 2000 Rupees.
• After redeeming coupon you can use this credit any time.
• There is no risk in using these coupons.
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• This offer is still existing and 100% working in Indian billing adwords accounts.

We also do PPC for customers on Google Adwords , if you need let me know .

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[BB] Spring 2017 courses have been created

Hello Blackboard Users, 

The course sites for Spring 2017 have been created in Blackboard. To see your Spring 2017 course sites at this time, click on the "Courses" tab in Blackboard and look for the course titles that begin "20171 - ". 

When created, the course sites are unavailable to the students. As the instructor, you can click on the link and get in and set things up.  

When you are ready for the students to access your course site, follow the simple instructions below or watch the 1 minute video on the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH0-BExpzpw&feature=youtu.be web page.

1.       Access the Customization tool in your course site's Control Panel 

2.       Select Properties 

3.       Set Course Availability 

4.       Submit 

If you have questions or concerns, please email the Blackboard Help Desk at blackboardhelp@miami.edu, or call 305-284-3949 between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., Monday through Friday. 

Sincerely, 

Your Blackboard Team 
(P): 305-284-3949