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Who do I contact for more information about the Blackboard environment?

CIT can help you find creative and effective ways to integrate Blackboard Learn and other instructional technologies into your classroom or online course. Contact CIT to schedule a one-on-one consultation or an instruction session for your …

What is Blackboard Learn?

Blackboard Learn 9.1 is designed to enhance your classroom and campus experience. Blackboard Learn technology helps to make learning more effective in and beyond the traditional classroom walls. Blackboard Collaborate with the Ultra Experience User Interface Tour (Retired - Unlisted) Watch later Watch on Instructor Resources

How do I log in to CCRI blackboard?

Here is some additional information about the move to Blackboard Learn SaaS and Blackboard Ultra Base navigation. Why is Blackboard Learn SaaS being integrated so close to the start of the semester? Was an earlier time not doable for CIT? The Blackboard Learn upgrade is …

What happened to Uaua Blackboard Learn?

Respondus Lockdown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. View the Student Video. Hoonuit (formerly Atomic Learning) Hoounit is on-demand professional training tutorials for faculty, staff, and students, to …

Respondus

Respondus Lockdown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard. View the Student Video.

Free Blackboard Webinars and Courses

Blackboard is offering a free webinar training series for faculty to help with transitioning to remote instruction. Register at Instructor Webinar Series.

Hoonuit (formerly Atomic Learning)

Hoounit is on-demand professional training tutorials for faculty, staff, and students, to include Blackboard training.

Instructions for Remote Course Delivery

In the event that face-to-face instruction is disrupted, there are several activities that you can initiate for academic continuity and there is minimal lost to class time.

Blackboard is moving to the cloud!

August 5 – 13, Blackboard Learn will be unavailable while UA’s instance of Blackboard Learn moves from being hosted in Blackboard’s data centers to being hosted in the cloud, also known as software as a service (SaaS). Moving UA’s Blackboard Learn instance to SaaS allows for flexibility, scalability, resilience and innovation.

Why is Blackboard Learn SaaS being integrated so close to the start of the semester? Was an earlier time not doable for CIT?

The Blackboard Learn upgrade is occurring August 5 – 13. Because courses are offered throughout the summer, there are very few time windows that allow for system downtime, maintenance and upgrades.

Was UA involved in any of the new features? Is there anything being added that users have been asking for?

By surfacing information from all your courses in one place, Ultra provides a new way to navigate course content that will save you time and help you stay on top of what’s important. The personalized interface enables quick access to relevant information. It highlights what’s new, what’s due and offers insights into performance.

One of the new features is the ability to balance load. Were there ever any Blackboard outages last year due to overload?

We did not have load-related outages in the past year, largely because Blackboard doubled the number of servers allocated for UA’s use when we moved to remote operations in March 2020. The move to SaaS hosting means that the vendor can manage server resources more dynamically without additional ongoing cost to UA.

What kind of new tutorials and guides will be released? When should we expect them?

Guides and tutorials are already available on the CIT website. We think these are especially helpful for instructors and students:

What is a blackboard?

Blackboard is a resource for online learning available to the entire CUNY community. Faculty members moving their course resources online are encouraged to read Teaching Remotely – Provide Your Course Resources Online, watch the Translating On-Campus to Distance Learning webinar, and the Blackboard Instructor User Guide first, ...

What time does Blackboard support?

Students and faculty with a pressing question regarding Blackboard use can call after hours support for assistance. This after hours service is available weeknights (between 8:00pm and 8:00am the next morning) and weekends (from Friday night at 8:00pm until Monday morning at 8:00am). After hours support is for help with using Blackboard ...

When will the Blackboard upgrade be completed?

CUNY CIS upgrades Blackboard annually at the end of December. The Fall 2020 Blackboard upgrade is scheduled to begin on Sunday, December 27th at 12:30 am and is expected to be completed by the close of business on Monday, December 28th.