ITSpotlight is designed to keep the campus up to date on ITS activities and services.
Blackboard Upgrade Announcement
Posted February 08, 2023
by IDLT
ITS will update SIUE’s Blackboard LMS to Ultra Base Navigation on May 8, 2023. This is part of an overall and long-term upgrade to Bb Learn Ultra, the newest version of Blackboard’s learning management system. The Ultra Base Navigation upgrade will not update or change existing course shells or tools used by faculty and students.
ITS will provide regular updates to the campus community about the scheduled Bb Ultra Base Navigation upgrade. Imag...
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Still Using Zoom to Record Your Lectures?
Posted February 08, 2023
by IDLT
If you are still using Zoom to record your lectures, you and your students are missing some notable features that YuJa offers. The YuJa Software Capture (PC and Mac) records your webcam and your screen share as separate streams. This allows you to edit each video separately in case you need to plug in a new slide or screen share. The separate streams also allow students to change which picture they see larger, the scr...
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Let Students Know Blackboard Ally is Their Ally
Posted February 08, 2023
by IDLT
In our ITSpotlight series on Blackboard Ally, we’ve discussed how Blackboard Ally makes your course more inclusive, how to run the course accessibility report and interpret it, how to make a PowerPoint presentation accessible, and how to increase the accessibility of a PDF.
Everything we’ve covered thus far is the background work that takes place to make your course accessible. Now it’s time ...
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