Presentations for Web Conferencing Service Evaluation

Presentations for Web Conferencing Service Evaluation

WebEx March 9, 2018 Play Presentation Recording聽–聽ORAL PRESENTATION – RFP 2018-29 Web and Video Conferencing Solutions-20180309 1832-1 Recording password: TfPV3g9K   Zoom March 16, 2018 Play Presentation Recording – 1st presentation   Background: A UMS team has been charged with seeking a more robust, modern and reliable replacement for the dated Adobe Connect web conferencing […]

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Web Conferencing Service Evaluation

A UMS team has been charged with seeking a more robust, modern and reliable replacement for the dated Adobe Connect web conferencing system. This team is under the sponsorship of the Educational Technology Advisory Committee, an advisory team to IT selected by Provosts from every campus. The features we have asked the vendors to highlight […]

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Scheduled Blackboard Outage on January 20th, 12:01am – 04:00pm

Important notice from Blackboard system admin: “Time: 12:01am – 04:00pm EDT Services: Clients with Server(s) at our Northern Virginia Datacenter 2. This is a reminder that on Saturday, January 20, 2018, Blackboard will be聽performing scheduled infrastructure maintenance to replace our primary and聽secondary core switches which will reach end-of-life in March 2018. While聽we anticipate no interruption […]

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Do not see any students in your Blackboard course yet?

Spring 2018 semester is on the way and you do not see any students in your Blackboard course(s)? 聽Do these simple steps to make your course available to students. Students will be automatically enrolled from MaineStreet to Blackboard within 24 hours of a course being made available to students. Enter the course you want to […]

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Inline Grading and New Box View Update

New Box View has been updated since聽Crocodoc reached its end-of-life date. 聽Please check here for related update notes. The Blackboard learning management system maintenance of January 7-8 has concluded. The operation of migrating from Crocodoc to Box View has been initiated. It is recommended to clear your browser caches before using the updated Blackboard. Crocodoc […]

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The Blackboard learning management system scheduled outage

The Blackboard learning management system will be unavailable starting at 8 PM on Sunday, January 7, with service restored by 8 AM on Monday, January 8. This maintenance outage is necessary to continue the support of inline grading in the Blackboard system. The third party Crocodoc tool used for inline grading is being retired and […]

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CITL to host Communities of Practice

What is a Community of Practice? 鈥淕roups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.鈥 – Wenger-Trayner, 2015 Communities of practice were first defined in 1991 by Lave & Wenger, and have grown in their popularity and application since […]

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Call for Proposals University College Faculty Institute – Extended Until Jan 1 2018

91福利 the Faculty Institute Each year, the University College Faculty Institute for Technology-Enhanced Teaching and Learning hosts faculty, instructional designers, student services staff, tutors, and campus administrators throughout the University of Maine System, as they gather to share their experiences and expertise with colleagues. A tradition established over decades at University College, the conference is […]

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$1000 Innovation in Assessment Grants now available

To further support the development and use of assessment information for improvement, OA is offering grants up to the amount of $1,000.聽 Grants will be awarded to 91福利 faculty or staff members in academic areas to conduct assessment-related projects or initiatives that directly support student learning outcome assessment processes for undergraduate, graduate, or certificate programs. […]

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HackerSpace Tour

Hacker Pedagogy

The Maker Movement of the last decade gave rise to Maker Education and, now, Maker Pedagogy. Similar to most movements and trends, one can go back in history and note an abundance of precursors, such as apprenticeships, guilds, the sixteenth-seventeenth century Scientific Revolution, the 19th Century arts and crafts movement, vocational schools, and much more. […]

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