Category Archives: Educational Technologies
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Blackboard helps you and your students collaborate, communicate, organize, share, and store information. You can now use these same tools to gather USC faculty, staff, and students into a familiar online environment for academic, research, or administrative projects. These new … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technologies | Tagged April 2013
Blackboard LMS Evaluation
BLACKBOARD LMS EVALUATION Blackboard has been USC’s enterprise-level learning management system (LMS) for the past 13 years and, as such, has become integral to both USC’s instructional model and disaster recovery plan. However, it is a standard practice in academia … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technologies | Tagged January 2013
New: Blackboard Mobile Tests
You should already know about Blackboard Mobile Learn, a free mobile application available for download at www.usc.edu/blackboardmobile that enables instructors and students to access Blackboard course information directly from smartphones or tablets. But did you know that you can now … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technologies | Tagged January 2013
Short Courses in Spatial Thinking & GIS Technologies Available at USC
As a follow-up to CST’s faculty forum on November 16, we would like to make the community aware of the spatial thinking courses offered through the GIS department. The Spatial Sciences Institute of the Dana and David Dornsife College of … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technologies | Tagged January 2013
Blackboard News
I. BLACKBOARD UPGRADE AND SCHEDULED SYSTEM DOWNTIME OVER WINTER BREAK 2012/2013 From 12:01 a.m. on Friday, December 28, 2012, to 11:59 p.m. on Friday, January 4, 2013, ITS will be upgrading Blackboard to version 9.1 Service Pack 9 (SP9). During … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technologies | Tagged November 2012
Blackboard Best Practices
We’ve heard a lot of positive feedback about the recent addition of our Blackboard Best Practices tutorial. All USC faculty have been enrolled. If you haven’t opened the tutorial, we encourage you to log into Blackboard and do so now. … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technologies, Training, Events & Resources | Tagged November 2012
Blackboard News
USC’s Blackboard team has a lot of news to share about resources, upgrades, and an upcoming initiative to assess the university’s learning management system. I. MAKING A BLACKBOARD COURSE AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS Did you know that your students cannot view … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technologies | Tagged August 2012
Blackboard News
PERFORMANCE DASHBOARD Recently an instructor asked if there is a place in Blackboard where instructors can go to view student activity within a course. Blackboard tracks and logs course activity—e.g., discussion board activity—and is a great place to view a … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technologies | Tagged April 2012
What’s on the Horizon in 2012 and Beyond?
The New Media Consortium (NMC) and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) have published the 2012 Horizon Report for Higher Education. In the report, the Horizon Advisory Board has predicted that the following educational technologies will be widely adopted in the next … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technologies | Tagged April 2012
Six Minutes from the 10th Anniversary Horizon Retreat
From January 24 – 26, 2012, one hundred distinguished thought leaders from all over the world came together in Austin, Texas, to mark the 10th anniversary of the Horizon Project. The NMC has posted videos of six-minute thought pieces presented … Continue reading
Posted in Educational Technologies | Tagged April 2012