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TILT: Assessment Strategies for Vista

Ann Steckel — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:45:35 +0000

Learn how Rovane Younger of the CSU, Chico Construction Management Department has used Blackboard Vista to assess student learning.

This presentation was given on Wednesday, October 28
Presenter: Rovane Younger
In this TILT session, Rovane Younger details the process his department has gone through to assess student learning using Blackboard Vista. His presentation includes examples of test questions, testing scenarios, setting changes and recommendations, as well as what his department hopes to accomplish in the future.

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TILT: Self-Service Application Tool for Vista Users

Ann Steckel — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:30:20 +0000

How you can manage better your Vista!
This presentation was held on Wednesday, September 9
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Presenters: Scott Kodai, CSU, Chico Distributed Learning Manager, and Mark Kauffman, ITC & Vista Integration/Administration

In this TILT session, Scott Kodai and Mark Kauffman explain how the product was developed and show participants how to use it for Vista course management. This CSU, Chico developed tool allows users to: add or remove guest section designers, add or remove community members, add or remove prep areas, reset sections, and hide or show sections.

Watch the archive of this session.
Type your name in the PARTICIPANT window and select Enter.

Twitter Hash Tag for CSU Chico TILT sessions is #CHICOTILT

Royalty Free Icons & Clipart Stock Images

Ann Steckel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:41:44 +0000

If you are thinking of personalizing the icons used for files, folders, and other elements in Vista, Icons Etc is a great place to look. Once you find the theme you like, click into the set and save the thumbnail images to your computer. (Creating a folder on the desktop called “Vista Icons” might be a good place to save them.) After you collect the necessary icon, enter your Vista course, and in the Build tab, click the action arrow to the right of the icon to be changed. Select “Customize Link,” “Replace Icon,” and browse for the correct icon saved to your computer.

More about Icons Etc:
Icons Etc offers 107,553 free icons and clipart stock images for web design, application design, graphic design, and many other purposes. Click on the Browse All Tags tab in the menu to browse all of tags in alphabetical order. Go to the top of the sidebar to Browse By Category (Icon Style) or scroll down and Browse Icons & Clipart by Most Tags (In descending order).

LMS News – Blackboard Purchases Angel

Ann Steckel — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:53:25 +0000

Yesterday’s LMS news that Blackboard purchased competitor, Angel, has created much conversation in academic technology circles. Those of us in the Technology and Learning Program have been reading as much as possible to stay informed. We thought we might share with you some of the resources we have found and let you form your own opinions about the recent “merger”.

Inside Higher Ed News

Campus Technology

eSchool News

Michael Feldstein’s Blog

Blackborg on Flickr

Twitter #blackborg Feed

Twitter #bbplusangel Feed

Community Watch: Groups Communicate, Collaborate in Over 100 Vista Communities

Peter — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:24:32 +0000

To date, there are over one hundred communities in Vista used by student groups, staff teams, academic departments and organizations that cross all segments of campus. Some highlights:

Provost Flake

Provost Flake has created a community for the newly established working group of faculty, staff and administrators participating in Framing Meaningful Change at Chico State. This community will function as a hub for group members as they discuss, share and continue their conversations.
Lori Beth Way is using a community for the Criminal Justice Program students for advising. Read more about this community on the TLP blog: http://blogs.csuchico.edu/tlp/?p=435.
Esther Larocco of The Center for Bilingual Studies developed a community for use by faculty, Masters students, and Credential students. Esther has used TLP’s lab for training her department’s faculty members and teaching assistants on the wise use of integrating new technologies into their curriculum. ITC Ann Steckel has assisted them by using their community to provide demonstrations and new technology training.

There will be a TILT Session on Vista Communities offered on Thursday, February 19th at 12:30 PM in MLIB 031. For more information, see the TILT page: http://www.csuchico.edu/tlp/tilt.

To get a new community, contact TLP manager, Laura Sederberg, x4326. We hope to get a user group forming soon.