Beyond Blackboard
Technology to enhance any classroom
The NEW Blackboard 8.0
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Blackboard will be down May 11 – May 18
◦ What’s New is back!!
◦ New Announcement, Email, and Messages
features
◦ Tree View is back on the Discussion Board
◦ The Grade Center
◦ Adding new products – wikis, blogs, and
scholar
CLICK FOR HELP!
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For Faculty
◦ Quick Guides to:
 Pronto
 StudyMate
 Respondus
◦ Full info on
Blackboard 8
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For Students
◦ Quick Guide for
Blackboard
◦ Pronto
◦ Hints and tips
◦ FAQs
Free Student Orientation to Online
Learning
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Plan when to work on your course and
how to access
◦ Adding information on proctors
Gather your materials
 Learn to use Blackboard
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◦ Featuring the new Blackboard 8
Prepare to communicate with your faculty
 NEW – Faculty “requirements”
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◦ Check Click for Help after April 25 for more
info
Ivy Tech Tools
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Virtual Library
◦ For “distance learners”
◦ For Faculty
Campus Connect
 Faculty Web
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Available Now!
Media Server
Distribute audio
podcasts while
protecting your
intellectual
property
 Soon distribute
video casts with
the same ease
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Available Now!
New features coming soon!
Creating Podcasts is Easy
Use any tool you
like that will create
an MP3 file – we
like Audacity
 Record with an
inexpensive
microphone
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Add to the media
server and select
your settings
 Add a URL to
Blackboard, iTunes,
or any other feed
reader
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SafeAssign
Provides an originality
report to both the
student and the
faculty member
 Builds an institutional
database of previous
work submitted by
students
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Available Now!
Scholar
Quickly add and
categorize bookmarks
to any Blackboard
course
 Share and have
students share links in
a “scholar”-ly search
tool
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Available Now!
Pronto
Instantly links students
and faculty – no need
to remember
usernames/systems
 Simple interface
 Text and voice chat
both individually and
groups
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Available Now!
Available Now!
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Test creation and
management.
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Blackboard 7.x settings
and ability to require
Respondus LockDown
Browser.
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Options of retrieve tests
that already exist in your
Blackboard course.
Available Now!
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Publishes game-like
learning objects to
flash output.
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Publish directly to
Blackboard.
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Insert graphics or
embed audio.
Respondus – Lock Down
Browser
Prevent students from
accessing other
programs while they
are taking an exam
 Locks out more than
500 applications – and
the number increases
every day
 Simple to install and
use
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Available Now!
LDB - Limitations
For exam to work
with LDB, the faculty
member MUST
create the exam in
Respondus
 Windows - Works
only with IE 5.5 and
above
 Macintosh – requires
OSX 10.3.0 or higher
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Available Now!
JournalLX
Coming in the New Blackboard 8!
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Course based
blogging.
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Able to share the
blog with the whole
course or just with
the instructor.
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Ability to generate
RSS feeds of posts.
TeamsLX
Coming in the new Blackboard 8!
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Team-based wiki for your
Blackboard coursesite.
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Tracks edits by contributor for
easy grading of group projects.
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Allows for group shared web
authoring with a wsyiwyg
interface.