Posts Categorized: Peter’s Blog

New to Blackboard Learn this Summer: Profiles with pictures and privacy settings

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Blackboard Learn was upgraded on May 30. One exciting new feature is the User Profiles. The new profiles display student photos in courses, and allow students to easily view a course roster. Introducing Bb Learn Profiles Note: All students and faculty will be invited to set up their profile the first time they log in after… Read more »

New workshops added: Google Docs for Collaboration

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We’ve just added two new sessions of our popular workshop “Google Docs for Student Collaboration” to our February calendar. In this workshop we discover some of the great tools Google offers to Chico State faculty and students including Documents, Spreadsheets/Forms, Drawings and Presentations. Learn how real-time collaborative writing, threaded annotation discussions and the powerful sharing… Read more »

The Respondus password has been updated for 2012-2013

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If you’ve got Respondus on your computer to build and upload assessments, you may notice that last year’s password has expired. Never fear! The new 2012-2013 password is located in the Respondus tab inside Blackboard Learn under Faculty Support. If Respondus will not accept the password, you may be using an older version of the software;… Read more »

Wildcat accounts can now access many Google services including YouTube, Maps, Blogger and more.

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Students, faculty and staff can now access many more Google apps by logging into Google through their Wildcat account (http://www.csuchico.edu/google) or by using their Google wildcat account email address as the login name at a standard Google login screen. Previously, Wildcat accounts were only able to access the Google Mail, Calendar, Docs, Sites and Talk… Read more »

Teaching in Bb Learn this Spring? You can enable your courses now!

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You can now enable your Bb Learn courses for the Spring 2012 semester using our web-based Self-Service Application. Courses which you enable in Bb Learn are automatically hidden in Vista. If you don’t find your Spring course listed, it’s likely that your academic department office has not yet added you as the instructor of record… Read more »