The Center For Excellence in Learning Technology

CELT has just created a new Blackboard 8 Upgrade page for all Blackboard Migration-related information. Watch this space for updates on the migration process, to request that Spring 2008 courses be moved to the system, and for tutorials and tips.

• Blackboard 8 Upgrade Page

Blackboard 8 offers opportunities for self and peer assessment that were not available in earlier versions of the system. View the tutorial below to get an idea how you can use the self and peer assessment features in your own Blackboard 8 classes this spring.

• Self and Peer Assessment in Blackboard 8 video tutorial

For those of you who missed the in-person Blackboard 8 Grade Center workshops, please take a look at the following video tutorials provided by Blackboard.
Grade Center Overview:

• Grade Center: Determining Grades and Exemptions
• Grade Center: Analyzing Grades (differentiated instruction orientation)
• Grade Center: Customizing the Grade Center

As you prepare your courses in Blackboard 8, you may notice that he discussion board has changed a bit. Blackboard has created a video tutorial to assist you in using and managing your discussion boards.

• View the Blackboard Discussion Board Tutorial.

I’ll be posting more video tutorials to address some of Blackboard 8’s new features, let me know if there are any aspects of the system you’d like to learn.

TurnItIn.com allows students and instructors to compare the text of papers with websites, other student papers, and even full-text periodical databases to determine whether or not any of the content is plagiarized.

For more information on TurnItIn.com (and to see some basic training videos), please visit: http://turnitin.com/static/training.html

Students:
Sign up for your account by clicking “New Users” at TurnItIn.com. You’ll need information from your professor about how to join their class in the system.

Faculty:
If you have not used the service before, TurnItIn offers a very helpful Quick Start Video for instructors on its training page. You’ll need to contact CELT to receive the CSI account code and password to set up your account. Once you’ve done that, you’re ready to set up your class and begin submitting work (you can either cut-and-paste or upload the actual Word documents), or even have students upload papers themselves.