Yesterday I presented a (very poorly attended) webinar on the topic of copying course material from one Blackboard course site into another. Given that the Summer 2012 courses were just created last week, it seemed a timely enough topic… I hope that many faculty will be prepping their Summer courses prior to the end of the semester, rather than waiting until the eleventh hour before the next term begins, at any rate. You can view the recording of the course copy webinar, or take a look at the archives of other webinars we’ve presented on this semester. But, just to hit the high points: The...

The webinar I conducted recently on using Blackboard’s Visual Textbox Editor is up in the webinar archives list, just in case anyone is interested. Let me give a short list, for those who did not attend: The Visual Textbox Editor (VTBE) works across multiple browsers, but not on all devices (such as the iPad). Thus it’s useful to have a switch to turn it off in the upper right corner of the VTBE. There are a good set of font and paragraph controls (such as size, font, and header type) that I recommend against using under normal circumstances. The “normal” font controls, bold,...

Now that the Spring 2012 semester is in progress, I’d like to draw attention to the series of webinars that we in Academic Technology are conducting this semester. Every Tuesday, at 2 PM (with the exception of during Spring Break), we will conduct an online session on one of a variety of topics. To see a list of upcoming topics, take a look at our ATRC Training Schedule. We are conducting these sessions using the Blackboard Collaborate tool (which is available for faculty to use with students through the Blackboard system), so if you are curious about using that tool you may want to participate...