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May 20, 2005

OIT Seeks Faculty Volunteers for Summer Pilot of New Blackboard

OIT has installed the latest version of Blackboard (version 6.3) and is looking for faculty volunteers to pilot this system during Summer '05. While there are some interesting new features (especially with assessments), the following conditions would apply for anyone participating in the pilot:

1. Turnitin.com will NOT be available during the summer pilot on version 6.3.

2. Your Summer '05 course is already created, but you will have to:

  • Turn the course on by making it available (similar to past semesters)
  • Copy the content from your 6.2 version course to the empty shell course in version 6.3. The copy course content process is the same as in past semesters, but you just need to import the 6.2 course from http://blackboard.umbc.edu to the 6.3 server at http://bbss.umbc.edu.
  • Request a course shell be created in version 6.2 with an announcement/link telling your students that their course is being run on the version 6.3 server (http://bbss.umbc.edu).


    If you would like to participate in the Bb 6.3 summer pilot, please contact Bob Armstrong at 410.455.3885 or rarmstro@umbc.edu.

    • Posted by John Fritz on May 20, 2005 1:49 PM |