SU2020 Instructional Technology Update

The UMBC Instructional Technology Update is provided by the Division of Information Technology for students, faculty and staff. If you have questions or need help, please consult the Blackboard Help FAQs or directly at www.umbc.edu/blackboard/help.  You can also contact the Technology Support Center at 410.455.3838 or submit an RT (Request Tracker) ticket via the myUMBC Help Menu or directly at my.umbc.edu/help.

HEADLINES

What’s New

• DoIT Offers Monthly PIVOT Webinars for Online Teaching During Summer

• New Bb Annotate refreshes inline grading tool for SU2020   

• Google Assignments and File Embed Available for Bb Courses 

• Panopto Downtime: Saturday, June 27 

• SU2020 Courses Created in Blackboard on April 21, 2020 

Academic Continuity

• May 4-8 PIVOT webinar recordings available [myUMBC login req’d] 

• Go Online (GO) Kit Series on Academic Continuity 

• Effective practices for managing the live virtual classroom

• Using Respondus Tools to Address Integrity of Online Tests

• UMBC Online: By the Numbers

Training & Professional Development (view all events)

• End of Semester Sprint (5.13) 

• Bb Collaborate (5.13) 

• VoiceThread Essentials (5.15 & 5.19)

• Panopto Essentials (5.15, 5.19, & 5.21)

• Blackboard Essentials (Part I - 5/18  / Part II - 5.20)

• Ultra Essentials I & II (5.21)

Other DoIT News

• FYI: Virtual URCAD Puts Student Research on Broad Display

• Moving from “What is that?" to Data-Informed Practice 

As always, if you have any questions, please consider the following options:

• Academic Continuity | Keep On Teaching | Student Technology Resources 

• Check our extensive FAQ collection 

• What’s new in Ultra? | Known Issues 

• Open a ticket via RT

• Follow the Instructional Technology & DoIT myUMBC groups

• Request a consult with instructional technology staff