Fordham’s Blackboard Learning Management System will be upgraded to version 8 for the coming academic year. To facilitate the upgrade, the system will be offline for 72 hours beginning at
12:00am on Friday, August 8th
To ease the burden on those teaching early-start classes, 08F courses will be in the system as of 9:00am Monday, July 28th, and faculty teaching this fall may begin updating course information at that time.
Blackboard has prepared Instructor Release Notes for version 8 of Academic Suite to help users get started quickly with the new features, and we encourage everyone to peruse this short document, which can be downloaded in PDF format at: http://tinyurl.com/59pstk
If you have any questions about the upgrade, please don’t hesitate to email blackboard@fordham.edu, or call 718-817-2289.
Over the Summer, Fordham will be upgrading to Blackboard Learning System 8.0. you can get a leg up on the new system–including the enhanced grade book–by taking a look at the Faculty Release Notes: https://behind.blackboard.com/s/sysadminas/refcenter/docs/details.BbDocumentID=3226&pid=100&rid=5759&dt=
08M courses have been uploaded to Blackboard. If you do not see your summer sections in your list of “Courses I am Teaching,” please contact blackboard@fordham.edu for assistance.
Just a quick reminder that the new Center for Teaching Excellence is having kickoff open houses today, 2/20, at Rose Hill and tomorrow, 2/21 at Lincoln Center. The open houses will be an opportunity to get to know the Center’s staff, and find out more about its mission and goals. The open houses will be held in the Faculty Technology Centers, and since we’re lending them our space for the event, this is a great opportunity to stop by and see what’s happening in the FTC, too!
For faculty interested in using Wolfram Mathematica at home, the process for obtaining a home use license is now as simple as 1-2-3:
- go to http://www.wolfram.com/siteinfo/homeuse/
- enter Fordham’s site license number (L3144-0453)
- choose “A New Home-use License,” enter the requested information,* and tell us how you want to receive the software.
Once your employment status is verified, you will receive an email with information on downloading the software or obtaining a CD.
* To speed the process of employment verification, please use your Fordham faculty email address when filling out the form.
The Faculty Technology Center at Rose Hill will be closed on the following days.
December 6, 2007
December 11-13, 2007.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
Course materials for many of our Fall Group Technology Training sessions have been posted to the WIki.
If you have registered for technology traing this Fall and need your course materials, or if you have taken a course in the past and want to brush up, or even if you are just thinking about taking a course and want to see what will be covered, visit the Wiki and click the link for training coursepacks.
Yesterday, we re-launched the Blackboard support site in a new, friendly format. Among other changes, help is now divided into two sections, students and faculty, to help users find answers more quickly.
New look; same address: http://www.fordham.edu/blackboard.
A new plagiarism detection tool is a vailable to Fordham faculty this semester. SafeAssign is an alternative to Turnitin.com that integrates directly with our Blackbaord course management software. Instructors can create SafeAssign assignments in Blackboard, and any papers students submit will be automatically scanned before they are made available for grading in the gradebook. Instructors can also upload papers manually, one at a time, or in bulk.
Those who are familiar with Turnitin.com’s originality reports should will find SafeAssign very similar.
Mor information, including instructions on using SafeAssign and sample reports, is available at the SafeAssign support site: http://www.safeassign.com.
This Summer’s technology training offerings for faculty and staff have been posted. You can view the listings and register for classes at http://www.fordham.edu/training.
