IT and Educational Technology will make Blackboard courses for Fall Semester 2012 “unavailable” to students at 5 p.m. on Friday, January 11, 2013. Fall Semester 2012 courses will still be visible to instructors, but students will no longer see the courses. Questions or comments can be directed to the IT Help Desk at 573-341-HELP or […]

Registration for the Teaching and Learning Technology Conference 2013 on March 14 and 15, 2013 is now OPEN! Keynote Speaker: Dr. Richard M. Felder — Hoechst Celanese Professor Emeritus of Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University THEME: Assessments – From Syllabus to Final Web-based registration is now available at: http://edtech.mst.edu/events/tltconference2013/registration Registration is FREE for […]

IMPORTANT! Please read the following message VERY carefully! Educational Technology (EdTech) will be purging ALL course sessions stored in Tegrity at close of business on Friday, December 21, 2012. Missouri S&T’s usage agreement with Tegrity limits us to only 500 hours of recordings per semester. This means we MUST remove all recordings from Tegrity at […]

IT will be performing Blackboard maintenance on Sunday, November 18, 2012, starting at 12:00 a.m. Blackboard will be unavailable for 4-6 hours between midnight and 6 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.

EdTech is hosting an eFellows Community of Practice meeting on Monday, November 5, 2012, from Noon to 1 p.m. in Interdisciplinary Engineering Room 206. EdTech will provide dessert and beverages (please bring your own brown bag lunch). FOCUS: Course Overview and Instructions How will students know where to find things in my course? How difficult […]

IT will be performing a cleanup of all Blackboard courses older than two years as part of Missouri S&T’s two year Blackboard course retention policy, starting on Wednesday, November 21, 2012. This will ONLY affect Spring (SP2010) and Summer (SS2010) courses in Blackboard! Every instructor will receive an email indicating which courses are scheduled for […]

EdTech is hosting an eFellows Community of Practice meeting on Monday, October, 22, 2012, from Noon to 1 p.m. in Interdisciplinary Engineering Room 206. EdTech will provide dessert and beverages (please bring your own brown bag lunch). The eFellows Community of Practice (CoP) is made up of instructors who have gone through the eFellows program […]

EdTech is opening up the Computing Learning Center (CLC) software request process for instructors who need specific software packages installed in computer learning centers across campus. It is very important to submit requests in a timely manner to ensure the best possible support from IT and EdTech. We appreciate your cooperation! The software request web-based […]

At 6:45 p.m. tonight, October 9, 2012 an email was sent to faculty identified as S&T Blackboard Collaborate users. Subject: Blackboard Collaborate Outage – Update Attention: Instructors using Blackboard Collaborate Missouri S&T’s Blackboard (Bb) Collaborate has been unavailable since Monday, October 8th. It is believed this outage is an unexpected consequence of a maintenance procedure. […]

Wimba and Blackboard Collaborate are temporarily unavailable in classrooms and CLCs due to a security issue identified and blocked by a vendor. Information Technology technicians are investigating and will restore functionality on classroom and CLC computers as soon as possible. Updates on this issue will be posted to itpress.mst.edu, edtechconnect.mst.edu, and distributed to the Edumine group via email. For further […]