Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning

This is a reminder that FirstClass will be decommissioned on May 25, 2018. Resources for migrating from FirstClass are available here: https://gojira.its.maine.edu/confluence/display/ITR/UM+FirstClass+Migration+Project   If you have any concerns related to your FirstClass account, please contact the FirstClass Administrator, Glenn Eichel: glenn.eichel@maine.edu  

Summer Institute on Evidence-Based Teaching

Inline Grading and New Box View Update: March 2018 can be viewed here from the Blackboard Community.

Join us Friday, April 6th at 9:00am. Presentation by Kenneth C. Green, introduction by Jeffrey E. Hecker. Click here for more details

WebEx March 9, 2018 Play Presentation Recording – 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 […]

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 […]

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 performing scheduled infrastructure maintenance to replace our primary and secondary core switches which will reach end-of-life in March 2018. While we anticipate no interruption […]

Spring 2018 semester is on the way and you do not see any students in your Blackboard course(s)?  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 […]

New Box View has been updated since Crocodoc reached its end-of-life date.  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 […]

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 […]