Teach with Technology

Confluence Wiki Upgrades will Allow Public Pages!

Tips for Keeping Keep Student Grade Data Secure

Blackboard Learn Upgrade Coming this Summer!

Register Now for Brown Bag Events on May 1 & 2 - A Demo of Features in the Blackboard Learn Upgrade

April Faculty users’ groups focus on Adobe Connect, Blackboard Learn and tablet devices

Posted recording of March 11 session on "Creating Effective Assessments in Blackboard Learn"

New Online Assessment Guide and Workshop for Blackboard Learn!

Register Now for Spring Break Workshops!

ITaP creates learning tools that also integrate with Blackboard Learn

New teaching approach boosts learning for engineering students

Course Signals now available in Blackboard Learn

NEW Blackboard Learn tips and resources!

ITaP offering new easy-access, expanded instructional and classroom tech support

ITaP offers tips and workshops to support the ongoing transition to Blackboard Learn

Users' group meetings are scheduled for Adobe Connect and Blackboard Learn

Blackboard Learn Workshops, features, tools ease Purdue's faculty course transition

Purdue faculty on the West Lafayette campus have begun delving into the Blackboard Vista-to-Learn course-rebuilding process.

ITaP Launches New Blackboard Portal Page

On Monday May 14th, 2012 ITaP will be updating the Blackboard Login portal to include resources and links to Blackboard Learn. The new portal page will still include links for Blackboard Vista until Spring 2013.

Faculty and students assess the new Blackboard Learn

Several participating pilot faculty and students provide their perspectives on the new Blackboard Learn course management system in the March 27 edition of ITaP’s Faculty Focus newsletter. Undergraduate students in Basic Public Health Studies, taught by Health and kinesiology professor Roseann Lyle, benefit from collaboration tools their peers in Blackboard Vista do not have.

Faculty begin transition to new student-centered Blackboard Learn system

After more than eight years with the WebCT and Blackboard Vista course management system, Purdue faculty members will have the opportunity over the next year to transition to a new course management system — Blackboard Learn 9.1 — which offers extensive collaboration and assessment tools, social media integration and a more intuitive user interface.

iPad and Tablet User Group draws faculty

The third iPad and Tablet user group meeting brought about 40 faculty members together to discuss iPad apps.

Researchers and Instructors Like Using Wikis

The easy-to-use online app being put to diverse uses if a Wiki creator named Confluence, which ITaP fully supports.

Blackboard Learn 9 Implementation Schedule Announced

We anticipate completing the move to Blackboard Learn 9 by the end of 2012.

New Website Launched for IMPACT

Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT) rolls out a new website for faculty to get more information about the program and apply for inclusion in the 2012-13 cohort.

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IMPACT Redesigning Large Classes in Bunches; Next Cohort to Form

MPACT is a campus-wide initiative begun last year by the Provost's Office for the redesign of classes. Its aim is to engage students more fully in their learning, thereby improving retention and completion in classes that serve students across the entire campus. It is related to the University's strategic plan to ensure student success as part of launching tomorrow's leaders.

ITaP continues archiving oldest Blackboard courses

Beginning in spring 2011, ITaP will retain new courses in Blackboard online for two years. After two years, courses will be moved to a storage archive. After two more years, archived courses will be permanently deleted.

Preservice Teachers get Practice with Classroom Decisions

To engage undergraduate students in special-education methods courses EDPS 460 and 462, and provide them practice in applying course knowledge, Bouck collaborated with ITaP’s instructional services unit for technical help in developing an educational game she named TeachLive.