Blackboard will be unavailable during the following time so that routine maintenance can be performed:
February 21, 6-9AM (complete)
April 18, 6-9AM
May 16, 6-9AM
July 4, 6-9AM
August 1, 6-9AM
September 12, 6-9AM
October 10, 6-9AM
November 26, 6AM-6PM (Thanksgiving)
December 19, 6AM-6PM
Blackboard will be taken offline from 6-9 am on Saturday September 13, 2014. The outage will be used to implement an upgrade to Turning Technology audience response system (clickers). for more information about the clicker upgrade, please contact Technology Across the Curriculum’s clicker team: clickers@oregonstate.edu
Following a three year period of inquiry, assessment, and collaboration among faculty, students, and administrators to understand the needs of our teaching and learning community, OSU has chosen to replace the current Blackboard learning management system (LMS) with a hosted platform called Canvas. This is a university-wide LMS migration that impacts all modalities of courses taught at Oregon State, including traditional face-to-face, hybrid, and Ecampus online courses. Find out more here: http://blackboard-transition.oregonstate.edu/
Want to see new features coming soon in Blackboard, or get a tour of Canvas? Instructure (Canvas) and Blackboard will offer online demonstrations of their systems on Tuesday May 13 and Wednesday May 14.
You may attend the web conferences in Kidder 202, or join the conferences online from your own computer. Each event will be be live-streamed and recorded. You can access the web conferences here: http://live.oregonstate.edu/
These demonstrations are a great way to see the systems in action and ask questions (remote participants may enter questions in the webinar chat window).
Tuesday May 13, 3:00-4:30 pm – Instructure Canvas
Wednesday May 14, 2:30-4:00 pm – Blackboard
Questions? contact Lynn Greenough: lynn.greenough@oregonstate.edu
OSU’s MediaSpace is now integrated with Blackboard; this update was applied on April 19, 2014. Instructors can add a Course Gallery to their Blackboard course sites, which allows both students and instructors to add video and audio content.
Content be recorded from a webcam and added directly to the Blackboard site, or users may display existing MediaSpace files in Blackboard. Find out more about the Course Gallery here.
There is a new blog for a project called eLearn@OSU.
The project is a campus-wide campaign to evaluate and select a Learning Management System (LMS) for Oregon State University.
Check out the blog to find out more about how OSU is taking the next steps to bring next-generation learning technology to our community.