Category Archives: General

General information, announcements, and updates

Announcing Blackboard Mobile Learn

Posted on 10/19/2012 by SCAD eLearning Specialists

Blackboard Mobile Learn, a free mobile application that brings two-way teaching and learning to mobile devices and gives students full access to their course information directly from their smartphones is available at no cost for all SCAD faculty and students. … Continue reading →

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Staying Connected with Blackboard IM

Posted on 09/10/2012 by SCAD eLearning Specialists

Blackboard Instant Messenger (Blackboard IM) is a free, synchronous communication tool available to all SCAD faculty and students. Blackboard IM allows users to view online students and instructors, communicate in one-on-one, real-time text and/or voice conversations and participate in centralized … Continue reading →

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Course Access after the Term Ends

Posted on 08/27/2012 by SCAD eLearning Specialists

Just because the term is coming to an end, doesn’t mean that you’ll immediately lose access to all of the student work and content from this term. Students maintain access to the each term’s course a full ten days after … Continue reading →

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Webinar: Getting started with Blackboard IM

Posted on 06/19/2012 by David Mora, eLearning Specialist

An announcement from the Educational Technology Training Coordinator: Mark your calendars for an upcoming SCAD eLearning webinar highlighting Blackboard IM, an instant messaging tool available through Blackboard Learn. The session will include a demonstration of the application and suggestions for … Continue reading →

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SCAD eLearning’s Support Page in MySCAD

Posted on 06/18/2012 by SCAD eLearning Specialists

The technologies available to SCAD faculty members through Blackboard Learn represent a portion of the leading-edge technologies and advanced learning resources SCAD provides. To aid with the use of these technologies and resources, comprehensive support services are also available. For … Continue reading →

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Announcing a New Content Tool for Blackboard Learn at SCAD

Posted on 06/13/2012 by David Mora, eLearning Specialist

Adding text-based documents, such as PDFs and Word documents, to the content areas of your Blackboard Learn course site is an excellent method of providing additional resources to your students. However, if you wish to upload numerous files within several … Continue reading →

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Faculty Learning and Development

Posted on 06/11/2012 by SCAD eLearning Specialists

The SCAD Faculty Learning and Development website is an online space for teaching resources and information as well as developmental opportunities for enriching faculty use of educational technologies. This web site is intended to serve as a hub to facilitate … Continue reading →

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Blackboard Learn Course Site Availability

Posted on 05/29/2012 by SCAD eLearning Specialists

There are many things that a professor can do with a Blackboard Learn course sites to engage students and extend learning beyond the physical classroom. To help professors have ample time to prepare for the new term, Blackboard Learn course … Continue reading →

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