Information Technology Services

by IDLT

As a new semester approaches, the following tips may be useful for faculty.  

Blackboard and Course Management:   

1. If you are teaching multiple sections of the same course and want them to be in one Blackboard shell, please request that your sections be merged prior to starting work in your Blackboard courses.   

2. If you want to copy a course from the previous semester, please follow these export/import instructions.  ...

by IDLT

As a reminder, the Office of Online Services and Educational Outreach provides a service for caption editing with a 3-5 business day turnaround. Through this service, student workers will edit the speech-to-text captions on videos that are stored in YuJa.  

Video captions are a necessity for accessibility, and they support multi-modal learning for improved retention of information. Also, closed captions allow students to view video material without sound if they are watc...

Share a Single Video 

What does it mean to share a video? Sharing a video allows other to see a video in your YuJa library. Sharing does not give them a copy of the video; however, users may have to option to create a copy your video depending upon the access level you choose.   

There are four access levels to share a video: 

• Full access – users can see, ...

by IDLT

If you are someone who exports and imports your Blackboard course each term, does it feel like it takes longer each time to manage this? That’s because it does. Your course grows with files and links each time you teach it. Here are some tips to help speed up your next export/import and how to have a left navigation you and your students will appreciate. 

• Clean up left navigation. When importing an old course, it will also bri...