Blackboard Services Unavailable November 15

The Blackboard services will be unavailable on Saturday November 15, 2008 from 8:00am through 12:00pm. We will be performing some maintenance on the servers, and this maintenance will have an impact on the availability of the Blackboard servers. We apologize for the inconvenience.

 Thank you.

 

Quality Matters: Does Your Online Course Meet the Standards?

If quality online course design is your goal, view the presentation below for a guided tour that will help identify a standard of excellence in online course development. During this presentation, you will learn about the standards developed by Quality Matters (QM), a recently completed, highly successful project that developed an inter-institutional process for recognizing quality online courses.

Presentation Link: http://cdl.utpa.edu/techinnovations/10-30/index.html

Presentation Handout: http://cdl.utpa.edu/techinnovations/10-30/handouts.pdf

 

 

Blackboard Services Unavailable on Saturday 10/25

The Blackboard services will be unavailable on Saturday October 25, 2008 from 8:00am through 1:00pm. There will be some maintenance performed on the university’s data center on Saturday morning, and this maintenance will have an impact on the availability of the Blackboard servers. We apologize for the inconvenience.

 Thank you.

Considering Mobile Learning for your Institution

The Center for Online Learning, Teaching & Technology hosted its first Innovations in Online Learning Luncheon for the Fall 2008 semester. To Access the archived presentation of "Considering Mobile Learning for your Institution", please click here, or access it by pasting the URL below into your web browser:

http://ai.acrobat.com/p24135081/

A copy of the web conference materials can be downloaded from the link(s) below:

Original Presentration

Thank you for attending this presentation. We hope to see you on our next luncheon.

 

Fall 2008 Courses in Blackboard Available on August 11

We are working with the different teams to ensure that the transition to the new Banner student information system goes as smoothly as possible with regard to Blackboard and our Blackboard users. Your Fall 2008 courses will be available to you in Blackboard starting on Monday August 11, 2008. Please contact your instructional developer if you have any questions or concerns

Please submit your Blackboard Course Request at your earliest convenience to ensure that your Fall 2008 courses are available on time.

Blackboard Server Unavailable 5/9 through 5/11

As you may know, there will be electrical power outages across campus to perform maintenance repairs and improvements to the campus electrical infrastructure throughout the weekend. The Center for Online Learning, Teaching and Technology will use this time to also perform maintenance on the Blackboard infrastructure.

The Blackboard server will be unavailable from Friday May 9, 2008 starting at 5:00pm. The server will be back online on Sunday May 11, 2008 at around 9:00pm

Thank you.

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