IT will be performing Blackboard maintenance on Sunday, January 16, 2011, starting at 12:01 a.m. Blackboard will be unavailable for 2 hours between midnight and 4 a.m. Please call the Help Desk with questions about this or any other IT issue at 573-341-HELP (4357) or submit an online Help Request at http://help.mst.edu.
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Read More »One of our student workers has created the following Prezi presentation to introduce students to Blackboard on our campus. This past semester, he gave this presentation to all incoming freshman as part of their orientation to Missouri S&T. We in EdTech are very proud of the hard work and effort he has put into creating […]
Read More »Blackboard services will be undergoing important updates on Thursday, December 23, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Blackboard will be inaccessible to all faculty, students, and staff during the maintenance window while IT applies necessary updates to Blackboard. Please call the Help Desk with questions about this or any other IT issue at 573-341-HELP (4357) or submit […]
Read More »Wimba, the service provider for Live Classroom in Blackboard, will be performing maintenance on their servers on Sunday, December 19, 2010. Wimba Live Classroom will be unavailable for 1-2 hours while the maintenance is performed. For more information about Wimba Live Classroom, visit: http://edtech.mst.edu/support/wimba/index.html Technical support for Wimba can be obtained directly from the vendor […]
Read More »Starting on December 7, 2010, Blackboard and Joe’SS will both undergo important changes to improve the functionality of both systems. Two new columns will be created in Blackboard for all courses – JoeSS Midterm and JoeSS Final Grade. These columns allow instructors to retrieve grades directly from Blackboard into Joe’SS at midterm and at the […]
Read More »EdTech and CERTI are co-sponsoring the November Blackboard Seminar Series, which will focus on using Blackboard resources outside of the classroom environment. This event will take place in Centennial Hall Room 104 at Noon on Friday, November 5, 2010. Featured speakers include: Bih-Ru Lea, of the Information Science Technology department. She will discuss her IST […]
Read More »We recently had the opportunity to speak to some faculty about some of their concerns, specifically with respect to Blackboard. They commented that they sometimes had difficulty finding information on our Blackboard 9 Resources pages because there was no search function. Well, I am here to say that we have solved that problem! It […]
Read More »Barb Wilkins, Instructional Technologist for EdTech and a math teacher in her own right, presented on using rubrics for courses. One of the points Barb made was that students are already quite familiar with the use of rubrics for evaluating performance. For the past 10 years or so, teachers in K-12 have been trained to […]
Read More »Last Friday (Aug 27), IT performed some updates on Blackboard. An unrelated follow-up process resulted in a misalignment between Blackboard’s student enrollments and the Registrar’s student enrollments. As a consequence, course combine requests were not properly handled, thus many courses were not showing up for numerous students and faculty. IT was able to find and […]
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