ClassTop is now available.
ClassTop is a tool that allows you to work on Blackboard courses offline and then synchronize your work later when connected to the Internet. This is extremely useful especially when you are on dial-up at home. ClassTop offers many features that can make your work on Blackboard easier. For more information, click here.
Backups
As with any technology, you never know when something happens and crucial data may be lost. It is also a new statewide policy that all instructors are required to export their courses and save them at the end of each semester. For more information and tutorials, click here.
Last Day of Attendance
Attendance data is key information in determining student's eligibility for financial aid, and therefore as an instructor, you are required to report to the Records Office the last day of attendance for students who never attended and/or received a grade of W or F.
Please note that the Course Statistics in Blackboard is not always accurate and therefore, use of the Course Statistics to determine the last day of attendance is not allowed.
For more information regarding how to determine the last day of attendance, see Last Day of Attendance and APP5.2Procedures for a newly hired instructor to have access to Distance Learning Blackboard:
It is quite common for a newly hired instructor not being able to access eLearning Blackboard. The following are the steps involved in setting up and gaining access to Blackboard. It takes a while for the whole procedures to complete.1. If she is a newly hired adjunct, she needs to complete the employment contract and turn it into HR.
2. HR puts her in HRS system. Only then, her name would appear on SIS.
3. Once she is in SIS, then the program chair/department chair would have to ask Marla Goodnight (ext.8633) to assign the new adjunct as the instructor to the course she will be teaching. Only then, her name appears on eLearning as the instructor for that course.
4. Then, the new adjunct needs to set up an account with Campus Connect by clicking on the link "First Time Users" on the Campus Connect login page. During this process, she will receive her username and she can set up her own password.
5. Once the account has been set up, she will be able to log into Campus Connect.
6. Once logged into Campuc Connect, click on the Courses tab, and then click the "From Ivy Tech Campuses" link at the top left.
7. On the next page, click on the link: "Distance Learning". The Blackboard page will open in a new window and she should be able to see the course link under ""My Courses". Click on the course link to access.