CTC Ed Tech November 9, 2015

Dear Colleagues,

Please share this newsletter with your adjunct faculty. They don't always read my emails and this one is important.

Spring 2016 courses are available Monday, November 9 in the new version of Blackboard Learn.  The new Blackboard will be at https://blackboard.uaa.alaska.edu. It's a separate instance of Blackboard.

Fall 2015 courses will remain in our current Blackboard at https://classes.uaa.alaska.edu.  If you need to move content from fall 2015 to spring 2016 courses shells, you will have to use Export/Import.

I am available to all CTE programs to provide workshops on the new Blackboard and how to import course data into the spring courses.  Please contact me to arrange.

2015 Blackboard upgrade detail

November 9, 2015 - December 23, 2015

• Two instances of Blackboard (current and new) available
• Spring 2016 courses are in the new Blackboard. See job aid on moving content to spring 2016 courses
• Older courses (spring 2012 – summer ) will be added to the new Blackboard environment
• Fall 2015 courses remain untouched in current Backboard
• Note: courses copied to the new Blackboard will continue to be available to faculty in the current Blackboard (spring 2012 - summer 2015 courses)

December 24, 2015 - January 2, 2016

• Blackboard unavailable while IT completes the upgrade

January 2, 2016

• The new Blackboard environment available with all courses
• Some dev shells may still need to be added to the new Blackboard

Helpful links and more

• Current Blackboard login page (https://classes.uaa.alaska.edu)
• New Blackboard login page  (https://blackboard.uaa.alaska.edu)
• Check out the new features added with the upgrade
• Workshops available online and on the main campus
• If you need to do any work in summer 2015 courses or earlier (i.e., incompletes), please work in the new Blackboard to ensure no data is lost. Contact the Call Center if you have any questions about this.
• To move data from fall 2015 courses to spring 2016 course before December 24, you will need to export the data from the fall course and import it to the spring course.

5th annual UAA eTech Fair Nov. 9 – 13

• Lots of great sessions- check out the schedule
• All online – via Collaborate
• All by UAA faculty and staff
• Register in advance or just show up
• Added bonus: Quality Matters online seminars in the schedule