Blackboard Downtime

KCTCS eLearning (Blackboard) will be unavailable Friday, January 31, from 1:00 AM EST until 3:00 AM EST to perform system maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you are currently taking a course that utilizes Blackboard, be sure to download any materials or assignments you may need to continue course work during this time.

Thank you for your understanding and patience as we continue to improve the KCTCS elearning experience.

eLearning Services
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Blackboard Seeks Your Input

The Blackboard team is investigating a significantly simplified instructor experience and we'd like to know more about the experiences that your faculty find frustrating today. 

Complete the survey:

https://bbuxresearch.wufoo.com/forms/simplifying-your-use-of-blackboard-learn/  

Blackboard Downtime

KCTCS eLearning (Blackboard) will be unavailable Thursday, January 23, from 1:00 AM EST until 4:00 AM EST to perform system maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

If you are currently taking a course that utilizes Blackboard, be sure to download any materials or assignments you may need to continue course work during this time.

Thank you for your understanding and patience as we continue to improve the KCTCS elearning experience.

eLearning Services
KCTCS

DL Tip of the Week - Synchronizing SoftChalk Content

This week’s tip is about "Synchronizing SoftChalk Content".

Just a reminder that if you use Softchalk, after you copy your content, you will need to synchronize the SoftChalk file.

To Sync your SoftChalk Content, open the course with SoftChalk content.

Click on Course Tools down under Course Management.

Click on SoftChalk - Synchronize Copied Content.

Click Synchronize. Synchronize will run, depending on the number of files you have will depend on how long it will take to run the Sync, but it should not take but a few minutes.

Click Ok to return.

Then proceed to other course management activities.


If for any reason the links appear broken, if you need help, or if you have an idea for a DL Tip of the Week, please email us at HCTC-DL@kctcs.edu.

Remember if you need assistance, please let a member of the DL Team know.
Brad Roberts, DL Specialist (Faculty/Student Support) – Lees
Paul Currie, DL Specialist (Faculty Support) – Hazard, Knott, Leslie, Tech
Wendy Davidson, LoD Program Coordinator (LoD support and Student Support)

DL Tip of the Week - Setting Test Availability Exceptions on Exams

This week’s tip is about "Setting Test Availability Exceptions on Exams".

When deploying a test in Blackboard, instructors may create exceptions to the already established settings. This may be used to provide an exception to individual or groups of students. Exceptions may be created for: number of attempts, test timer, auto submit, availability dates, and force completion. Exceptions may be set up at any time.

Setting test availability exceptions may be handy if you have been recently notified about students with an accommodation plan requiring double or triple the time you have set. You no longer have to create an extra test and deal with the extra column in your grade center.

How-to Video

If for any reason the links appear broken, if you need help, or if you have an idea for a DL Tip of the Week, please email us at HCTC-DL@kctcs.edu.

Remember if you need assistance, please let a member of the DL Team know.

• Brad Roberts, DL Specialist (Faculty/Student Support) – Lees
• Paul Currie, DL Specialist (Faculty Support) – Hazard, Knott, Leslie, Tech
• Wendy Davidson, LoD Program Coordinator (LoD support and Student Support) 

2020 Vision: Outlook for online learning in 2014 and way beyond

Looks like we still have a ways to go with online learning but that some day the idea will no longer be a separate entity. There will be a wide range of ways in which students can obtain open educational resources and lecture based courses will start to fade away much more. True lifelong learning will become a collaborative learning and sharing of knowledge and experience. This is an interesting article by Tony Bates about the predictions on the future of online learning.  Read more...

Four Elements to Jumpstart your e-Learning Designs in 2014

Upcoming webinar presented by Ethan Edwards

Do you want to jumpstart your e-learning design approach in 2014? Are you seeking ways to breathe life and engagement into your learning projects?

In this webinar I'm going to cover the concept of instructional interactivity, and demonstrate how it can energize an e-learning experience for learners. I'll also demo award-winning, real-world examples that give meaning to and illustrate the four essential components of instructional interactivity.

Wednesday, January 29th, 1:00-2:00 pm Central

In this 60-minute webinar learn:

• what instructional interactivity is and how it can jumpstart your e-learning efforts in 2014
• the four essential elements of instructional interactivity
• to design engaging contexts, motivating challenges, appropriate activities, and instructional feedback into interactive design
• the critical elements of any authoring tool used to create instructional interactivity

Presented by:
Ethan Edwards
chief instructional strategist

Allen Interactions

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