-- classroom so we are broadcasting out to

our colleagues off campus.
We wanted to share with you today really what's
been going on with online at US and we had a lot of changes
in the last 18 months instead we wanted to share all of the
information with you that we can right now and let you know
that more information will be coming and when that
information will be available.
So we have several things we
are going to talk with you about today.
First hopefully all of you are familiar
with the EagleLearningOnline website.
Hopefully you have been there to visit to see
what programs we have online and what courses
are available for our students as well as support
for both faculty and students on
this particular website.
Something we have added to the
website if we got a support link Amy something new the
website that we have just add this morning Blackboard 9.1 is
coming it's on it's way and that's the bulk of what we want
to share with you today but before we get into the 9.1
upgrade and how that will work for the university there are
few other things that are happening that we want to secret
to you as well.
Particularly starting with the ELO
Initiative I just want to cover a little bit about what's
been happening with this project and all of the good work
that has come out of this effort.
About 18 months ago we
contracted the Blackboard to come in and do an assessment
what they call an environmental scan of what online learning
looked like at USM and they worked really hard with us to
help us develop model and a program that we could use
universally wide, that would help us not only grow our
online programs but increase enrollment, improve retention
and increase our graduation rate through online programs.
And that was a chart that was handed down to us by Dr.
Saunders and by Dr. Lyman.
So we felt like this was an
effort that was really supported by the administration and
we felt like it could be successful if we had that support
from above.
So again we started this project about 18 months
ago and we started the effort through a Blackboard CEA which
is the platform that we are using right now.
And we will
talk more about how we got to Blackboard 9.1 in a few
minutes.
We have had 5 programs to be an initiative so far.
As many of you know we get a call for proposal last year.
The first two programs in some of the faculty in this room
have been through the initiative.
We did a call for proposal
for programs who want to anticipate in the initiative.
And
there are nice incentives that go along with the initiative.
But basically what we did was we had two programs who were
accepted into because it's two initially Amy that we
accepted the person that's right the person that we did was
the elementary education program for teachers stipend so we
worked on that one.
Then we moved onto Construction
Engineering Technology at Sport Coaching Education.
Most
recently we have worked for the special education program
for teachers this is as well as Palmer Science the masters
program for Palmer Science and Composite Engineering.
The
five programs have totaled have been through the initiative
and it's not they don't have a King Kong the way but we are
working through those and it's a learning process not only
for the learning enhancement center but I think also for the
faculty as well.
Now we have just released the call for
proposals for additional programs to the initiative we
released that yesterday and there is a link to it on our
website Amy showing you right now the website.
We explain
what the initiative is about and I think one of the things
that was most attractive particularly for faculty and
department or sort of the financial incentives that go along
with it.
We will work with you to develop some plan support
for your course instructors and your course developers and
there are marketing recruiting services worth $2500 that
will include a license to a client relational database to
keep track with perspective students which we will talk more
about in few minutes.
License for faculty and the department
in the previous initiative we only had stipends
for the faculty.
This time we have included stipends for the
department as well.
So each faculty member who is part of
the program that does the initiative we will receive a $1500
stipend and the department will receive a $500 stipend.
Supplemental instructional to design support to assist
instructors with planning and implementing consistent high
quality online course designs which will include a software
license for Camp Asia.
So all of these programs will get a
license for Camp Asia and then also working with our
department will offer some enrollment management strategies,
retention strategies and program assessment report or
support.
You can go through here and read this yourself.
We were talking with Joanna
a few minutes ago from the metal program.
The proposal does require a good bit of work.
It is due on November 8
that's about 2 and half weeks.
I know that doesn't give you guys
a whole lot of time but it's pretty
fairly well detailed in terms of what we need
on the proposal.
These proposals will be reviewed by a subcommittee
from the E-Learning Steering Committee which I will talk to
you guys about in just a few minutes so will be reviewed by
that committee and the selection will be made by that group
as far as the program who will move forward in this
initiative.
Any questions?
And feel free to interrupt me if
you would.
I know we have asked for Q&A at the end from our
remote group so if we need to ask a question as we go I am
happy to answer it in here.
[Audience: Inaudible]
The E-Learning initiative is for programs only.

It's not for individual courses
and that brings up a really good point.
Part of what we have done in the past with online learning
at USM is really focused on courses and growth of courses
not growth of program that's not where we see
our student enrollment.
We really have to focus on full programs in
order to grow our enrollments.
So this is really for programs only
and it is not limited to programs that are not
online right now.
Programs that are currently online and
want to go to the initiative can do that.
Construction Engineering Technology
for example has been online for a
couple of years but their courses were sort of scattered.
Every faculty member was designing them their own way,
delivering them in their own way.
And there was really no
consistency if you are branding for that program.
So existing program to welcome
to apply as well this is not
just for new programs.
Important things to note though is
that these programs must have gone through the approval
process within their own college as well as academic or
graduate council and we must have verification that those
programs have been approved by those committees to be fully
online programs.
So the question.
Joanne did you have a question?

[Inaudible]

[Informal Talk]

So I mentioned that E-Learning Steering Committee,
another piece that came out of this initiative as
we started was there really was no over side

or management group who watched over
the watch dog for online at USM.
So one of the things that we did early on
in this project was to develop
our eLearning Steering Committee is shared by Dr. Lyman, of
course he is our provost and you can see I won't read
through the long list here but basically this group is
responsible for the physical oversight of online
learning at USM.
Also as well as the organization of what online should
look like and the structure of online
what it should be like.
So this group really takes a look at sort of the high
level pieces of online learning at USM and as you can see
hopefully we have got everyone covered and you can have the
right decisions about decisions you know things that need to
be decided here USM for online and I think again this is a
piece that's helped us to be more successful.
In the past we
have approached online.
We have not had everyone we needed
at the table to help us make decisions and The Office of
Institutional Effectiveness is an example because there are
so many things that we wanted to do that captain really
brought to the table information that helped us make
decisions about doing things the right way in terms of
coding courses and coding programs and so on and so forth.
So it's amazing you get the right people at the table you
can help to make those decisions that make things
much easier.
In addition to our eLearning Steering Committee we
have a change management taskforce.
This group is really the
working group and Joanne Burnett he is
part of that committee.
This committee is shared by Mary Dayne Gregg.
This group really is more of a I won't call it really a
working group but this is really more the meeting the pay to
group you know I would say if you have to define it that way
if you look at the people on this group there are quite a
few faculty on this committee and what we hope to get
offered down this committee for them to say you know that's
just not going to work in the classroom and that's not going
to work for our students that's not going work for me. We
don't have intellectual property policy for online courses
and programs that's something we are working on right now.
We don't have true policy for online courses
and programs at USM.
So that's another thing we are working on.
So this committee is really taking
a hard look at things we need in
place to make online successful as well as sort of the
communication piece and talking to their colleagues on
campus about the value of online at USM.
You know we are thoroughly
not trying to come in and cannibalize students
during your face to face classes that it's not is about.
We are trying to reach students in
an untapped market who otherwise
would not have come to USM, who would never come
to the brick and mortar classrooms.
Those are the folks that
we are looking for and we are really trying to work with
programs who have that particular nature of students that we
can bring in that otherwise would never have come.
So this group as I said
it's really sort of the working group you
can see there is a nice group of people as well on here Dr.
Steve Oshrin and Dr. Doug Bristol have been working on
intellectual property policy with Dr. Lyman.
That policy is in draft format right now.
The committee is reviewing it.
Once it's approved by our committee and Dr. Lyman,
Dr.Oshrin will then take it on to faculty senate and
academic and graduate council.
So we will have all the academic
bodies on campus where is that policy.
Dr. Cyndi Gaudet is sharing our subcommittee
for policy and procedure so she is
working with the small group on developing our products and
procedures to govern online learning at USM something again
that we never really had in place.
Now another thing that happened
out of our change management taskforce or the
subcommittee chaired by Mary Dayne on coding changes
at the university.
When we go in Steering Committee Dr. Lyman the
first thing he wants to know is what are the numbers, how
many kids do we have in online, what is the tuition looking
like, what's the revenue looking.
That was the hard thing
for us to tell him because of the way things were
coded on campus.
As you know our online sections of classes have
always being coded at [inaudible] we didn't really end there.
We also had special coding for GPRL,
we had special coding for senate, meridian

all these different places have their own special codes and
it was really difficult for us to pull numbers
that he was asking for.
So Mary Dayne shared the subcommittee on coding
changes and what we are doing now is all courses are
coded H or G but because in store we now have a designation
for an online campus as well as
an online location students can
search for their courses that way.
And what that has allowed
us to do is to code the courses and code
the students more easily.
So if he is asking me for students who are in fully
online programs it's going to make it easier for us
to call those numbers.
What we are still working on is coding for program.
Right now if the elementary ITI program has an
academic plan code for face to face and an academic plan
code for online.
Well we are not real sure if that's the
best way to go right now so we are still working on that to
come up with a solution to better code the fully online
program so that's the piece that we are still working on.
The intelliworks piece this is really our marketing piece.
We hired in June and all my marketing recruiting specialist
Amanda Cascio and her job as you came in you picked up some
of the literature that was sitting on the table her job is
to really work with the individual departments to develop a
communication plan that can be distributed through the CRM
and if you go to the ELO website and go to one of the
programs there is a link on there so take the next step -
Just go to any of the programs, that doesn't matter.

So when you go to what we call

our micro site every online program
whether it's fully online hybrid or executive format has a
micro site presence on the EagleLearningOnline website.
We have worked very closely
with the department chairs and directors,
program directors to get the information that
should be on this website.
This is a no way intended to
replace your academic department website at all.
Because you
know those websites really have a lot more information that
is more important to the students once they get into the
program or want more commission about the program you can
see we do have a link to the department website here.
we have FAQs that --
qualifications in a program overview but
to take an accept button this is actually what fees we
charge CRM and what we did with each department was work
very closely with them to find out what kind of information
they wanted to find out about potential students.
The students fill out this form,
it gets dumped into a database,
we then have the ability to track the students to find out
you know have they enrolled at the university, have they
applied at the university, have they been admitted
to the university.
So we are able to gather a lot of information
that's important for you guys as well as email addresses,
phone numbers that kind of thing whatever is going to get
from these students.
Right now what we are doing is we are
gathering this information and every Friday we send a
spreadsheet to the academic program chair, the director so
they have this information.
What we want to be able to do is
get every online program a seat in the CRM so
you can manage this yourself.
There is a lot more to this Amanda and Amy
went to the Intelliworks Conference in Washington a few
months ago and they have really learned a lot of
information, gathered a lot of information about how to make
this two really valuable to you guys for average students
you can set a communication plans.
With Amanda this is something
she will work with you on so you can do email
campaigns out to potential students.
For example the
elementary ed program we knew that there were 4400 teachers
and students in the State of Mississippi
without a college degree.
And so those were the students we charted and we did
that for superintendents and principals.
We were able to get
an excel spreadsheet of superintendent email addresses,
dumped those into the system, set up an email campaign and
the system automatically emailed those people.
And you can set it us so
that when the student receives that email it
looks like it's coming from Dr. Rose McNies you know or Dr.
Joanne Burnett it doesn't look like it's coming from a
system and students can actually reply back to that email so
that the email actually goes back to the faculty member and
not get lost in a system.
You can actually segregate the audiences,
segment the audiences if you want to that if you
are looking for you know students who are ready to go into
the program right now our potential students for year from
now you can actually segment your students in the system
that way so it will set up different email campaigns to
those different population of students.
So this is something
I will encourage you if you are interested in learning more
about this setting up some time with Amanda Cascio to come
in and talk to her about what you can do to develop your
communication plan for this program.
The last thing I want to talk about with the initiative on

how many of you are aware of the partnership we have with
Mississippi Virtual Community College, say and just a few of
them, as far as save it, good for you.

I guess about a year ago, Mary, Dan, Gregg and I started
talking with Christian Pruett and Terry Pollard at
Mississippi Virtual Community College because one of the
things we realized that was happening is as we were trying
to grow online programs particularly our undergraduate
online programs we don't have all of the GEC course that's
completely online.
And that was preventing us from really
being able to say Construction Engineering Technology is a
fully online program.
Elementary Education is a fully online
program, when in fact it's not.
The last two years, yes
those are fully online but those first two years we were
missing maybe 12 to 18 hours for each program, and we said
how do we fill this gap, if we can't get these programs
online at US how do we fill this gap, how do we stop saying
to students, Amy you have not met the requirements you still
need to pay 12 hours of GEC courses, why don't you go down
here you now on Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College,
take these courses and then come back to our program?
Well we don't want some students away,
there is no guarantee they are going to come back.
We want to make it easy for them,
once they get here, take these courses and be engaged
in a fully online program.
So what we have done is we have
removed the barriers so that a student who has enrolled in a
fully online program can now and I use History for example,
History 101 and History 102 are not courses that are fully
online but they require by just every major on this campus,
right.
So what we have done in store and again let me
mention you know this is been tracking them graduate council
and it's been through steering committee through change
management through Dr. Saunders she signed a consortium
agreement and so it's been sort of
all around the world and back.
But what if you know we will do is that they are part
of a fully online program and they need History, there will
be a History 101 section in store.
They are protected well
in class, the only way we can get them out in that is
through permission from the department.
So a student can
register for History 101, they will go to Blackboard, there
will History 101 course shelf for them they will click on it
but when they get into it, it will redirect them to
Mississippi Virtual Community College.
They don't have to
get admitted at the community college, they don't have to
pay separate tuition to the community college, they are
paying everything at USM and we have a reimbursement
procedure in place with MSVCC so we take care of reimbursing
MSVCC for the courses.
And then transcripts on the student
record as a university course as History 101 but it says
through an agreement with the Mississippi Community College
system so there is a notation on their transcript that it is
through a consortium agreement so that there is you know
evidence that it is not in fact a USM course.
We do have
transcript on record for all the faculty who are teaching
these courses at MSVCC, Mary and Dan were closing up with
students and Dr. Lyman [inaudible]
so we have credentials on record
and they are listed in Human Resources
as an affiliate instructor for the university.
So if a student ever appeals for grade or we
have any issues we can go back and actually say who that
instructor was for these courses.
This has been extremely successful.
We did this last semester probably two weeks
before this semester began we met with the program director
from all these online programs and within two weeks we had
80 something enrollments in these courses.
It was amazing,yeah.
And so if you look at courses like the History again
for example and you have 12 students enrolled in these
courses, you know I think that speaks a lot to the faculty
these students need these courses and there maybe potential
in the future preferably for our program here to consider
bringing these courses online.
You know it's a win-win for the students
but I think it also gives us some valuable
information about what we need to do as well at USM to try
and assist these students.
Any questions before we get to
the meat of this?
Okay so what we are really here to talk to you about today
is the Blackboard 9.1 implementation.
This really came about
as part of the initiative, as you know Blackboard T8 is
really the WebCT flavor of Blackboard.
When Blackboard
acquired WebCT, we were running WebCT and we made the move
to 6 and then we made the move to 8.
So what we are writing
is really not truly Blackboard.
This gives us the
opportunity to move over to the true Blackboard platform and
you know Joanna and I were talking about this few minutes
ago, it's either now or a year from now and so actually this
is almost a year from now when we hopefully implement it.
But we made the decision and I would say we collectively,
this is all through the steering committee,
change management.
These conversations took place for both of these
groups, we felt like because of our current relationship
with Blackboard and the work we have been doing with them
that hopefully we would receive more support to this upgrade
process and that it would be less painful.
And there were some financial incentives
on our part to move forward to 9.
1, they paid us a lot of money to do it now because we were
already engaged with them on contract to do this with other
piece of the project so that did give us considerable
discount from moving to 9.1.
And there are lot of other issues that
we would talk about as well in terms of why we
are moving to 9.1 but the decision was made by both
committees and by all that we should go ahead and move
forward with 9.1.
We do have a timeline we are going to talk
about in few minutes.
The one thing I want to point out with
Blackboard 9.1 with the integration with PeopleSoft we do
have the ability to rollout course shelves for every course
on campus.
So you know we can say go ahead and make course
shelves for everything.
And then faculty wouldn't have to request
this supplemental shelve anymore like you guys have
to do right now, but after conversation with eLearning,
steering committee as well as change management and talking
to some of the folks back in the graduate council, there was
a concern that some of this course shelves might be of use
to some degree in terms of online courses being delivered
that had not been through the approval process.
The other side for us was
that we would populate, we would generate
all these course shelves and faculty won't use them and we
would be taking them up from the server.
So what we have
decided to do is that we are going to continue to ask you to
step on to request the course shelf through
the Supplemental Request Form.
If it grows to the point where we can't manage
that anymore manually, we will certainly rollout
automated process.
And just to mention we have things described since
last year I think last year we had about 11,000 duplicated
headcount and fully online and supplement.
This year we have over 24,000 duplicated
headcounts in enrollments and supplements
and fully online.
So the growth has just been tremendous.
That's the same for the number of courses we had
about 600 last year, roughly about 1300 this year.
So next year they have been telling
what it's going to look like.
So the growth has really just been phenomenal.
So managing it manually makes it difficult
and we will see how we will
handle that as the time comes.
So one of the things that came out of this
and I think is fairly significant for you
guys and this is really why we wanted to have you here today
and it was recommended by the change management taskforce
that we invited you guys to be part of this conversation.
One of the things that we looked at was to develop sort of a
branding for online at USM that's something we have never
had before and you can see from the website that we have
developed as well as the materials that we have handed out
to you guys everything kind of has the same look and feel.
We have EagleLearningOnline banner, the course that we are
going to show you, the template we are going to show you has
that same sort of look and feel because when we did student
focus groups and talked with them about the experience they
were having on online courses, many of them were saying you
know I don't even know who my instructor is or I can't find
my syllabus or am I supposed to be doing discussion, I don't
know when my assignments were due.
And I am getting some weird looks but believe it or not
that was actually really happening.
Our students calling and saying it's [inaudible]
there is no content in my course, you know what
am I supposed to be doing here, and so again going back to
one of the things that Dr. Saunders charged us with was sort
of this branding and this identity of online at USM.
Students come on to our campus they know they are USM.
When they come online at USM
we want them to know that they are USM.
So this whole branding and marketing piece that we have
been working on we followed through with the template.
The template took a lot of work,
we had our instructional designer from Blackboard,
we have two instructional designers from Blackboard
initially and then all the white group,
be sitting there showing it back or hiding and a few
up here in the front have worked very closely with faculty
over the last 18 months who have given us great feedback
about would these work in the template but this doesn't, so
can we change these things around a little bit.
So we have gotten some great feedbacks.
Michael can share with you guys
in a few minutes what the template looks like and you will
actually get to we will walkthrough with you and get some
feedback from you guys as well.
But it also provides for the
students a consistent user experience.
That was something
that we were hearing loud and clear from the students who
are like okay I am in this English class and I am in this
religion class and I am in this marketing class and
everything looks entirely different and I am having more
trouble learning how to navigate these individual courses
than I am in the course.
And so this will help the students
have that consisting user experience.
The other thing that
we hear about a lot in last, is we get a lot of phone calls
from faculty two days in the semester saying I just have
been teaching online course, I have never taught this course
before and I have never taught online before, can you please
tell me, get this course ready because I got to do something
in this course tomorrow.
And so you know they are franticly
tampering around trying to figure out how to teach online
and how to develop content for this course.
So part of the template prevents that from happening.
If you have the template everything is there for you
and the faculty can concentrate then on
the development of content and teaching
the course and you don't have to think so much about the
technology, we are trying to eliminate the issues
for you guys.
The other piece of that is we have had situations
where 5 or 6 weeks into the semester you know faculty
members getting really sick or they have had an accident and
the chair has to replace that faculty member
with someone else.
And then they come in and go I can't make head or tail
for this course because you know Rose is doing it different
from you know Lillian and where it's this and where it's
that but we don't know.
One thing we do not in last is going
to your courses without your permission so we don't go in
and I can't tell you what Lillian is doing in her course
unless she offer me permission to go into her course.
What's important is to train
and support faculty when those kind of
situations occur, so if we have some sort of standardized
template or interface for our online courses it's not only
advantageous to the student, it's advantageous
to the faculty as well.
And hopefully you will recognize that when
we show you the template.
So we will show that in a few minutes.
The next phase I want to talk to you guys about
Blackboard designated with the official course delivery tool
for Southern Miss. No, Blackboard is not paying any money
under the table to say this or to persuade you guys that
this is the good idea.
This really has come from Dr. Lyman.
This has been an another issue that we see in last, but we
get phone calls and that would be saying, I am trying to
build my course on Ocean, can you teach me out of Stream
Viewer, but why you are doing that,
why don't you use Blackboard.
And I know there have been issues with the $10
the credit hour fee that is now gone,
that doesn't apply anymore.
So and I think that might be part of why we are
seeing such tremendous growth in terms of the numbers
that we had.
So that piece has gone out of the way, but we really
can only support one learning management within the
university, we can't support Facebook,
we can't support [inaudible]
we can't support all these other things.
Blackboard is the official tool that we use for online
course delivery whether it's fully online or hybrid and
that's really the direction I would like to see you guys go.
And I am not going to sit here and tell you, you can't use
any other tools that you want to supplement your course.
However if it includes students identification information
if it has their names if it has any kind of ID information
on there it did have gray, those are all proper violation so
we have to be really careful about what we are putting out
there because you are making yourself liable as well as
the university.
And so we are trying to make a statement on the
campus that it's not just about we want you to use this tool
because we think it's cool and wonderful, it really is the
tool that we have contracted with, we have secure servers,
we know that if anything comes up, the university is
protected because we have a legal agreement
with this company.
So we are asking faculty to please use Blackboard

to consider using Blackboard for all of your academic uses
in the classroom fully online or hybrid.
Another issue that has come up in this situation is
we have seen where some faculty
have been approached by their textbook publishers
and say you know what not only with if you choose this
textbook you get the book but we already have this course
built for you online.
And all your students have to do is go
out to this website and here is their course, well that's a
huge issue because first of all we have now aligned the
textbook publishers to tell us how you are going to teach.
They have designed the course they have done everything.
It does look beautiful,
some of the materials are really wonderful and great.
So again we are not saying you can't
use this material, what the textbook publishers are telling
you is there is a course cartridge or an ePack that they can
provide to the university and we can populate them on
Blackboard for you so that it is secure.
What we don't want
to do is have students going out to a third-party website
that is management owned by textbook publisher because you
run into all kind of issues.
Again it's a proper violation,
last year we had a situation with the group who was using a
third-party software and we were getting students calling us
saying they had been blocked out of their course, because in
many cases these students have to pay an additional fee to
the textbook publishers to gain access to these online
courses in addition to the tuition they have
paid the university.
And what we were discovering last year was that
textbook publisher if students had not paid that $100 fee or
whatever it is within two weeks of the course they drop them
from the course.
The textbook publisher has no right to do
that, the student has paid their tuition to the University
of Southern Mississippi and they cannot drop them
from the course.
So there are a lot of issues that go with it, it's
very attractive you know it's very seductive, just say well
I am just going to go ahead and do this because it's all
built and beautiful, ask them about it, you know and
eCartridge, or a cartridge for the course, it's easy enough
to do and we can do that.
So we encourage you to think about
those things before you make decisions about who you are
going to use to deliver your online courses, okay.
Another feature that we have come in
with the 9.1 integration is Pronto.
Pronto is another component of the whole Wimba Live
classroom suite which is what we are using right now for the
folks who are remote.
Amy and Julie are really the experts on [inaudible]
learning enhancement center but this is a really
more advanced feature than live classrooms.
It has the whiteboard it has
the share desktop application it has all those [inaudible]
that you see in my classroom but the feature I
like most about our Pronto is it's actually an IM tool, and
what it does is it populates your IM roster with all of your
students and all of your online classes so you don't need to
know their IM name, you don't need to know their e-mail
address if you are teaching, so you are teaching three
online classes all of the students on those three online
classes will be populated into the IM and Pronto.
The cool thing about it though is not only
were your courses be populating students
can also set up their own buddy list if
they want to do that.
But we can integrate this with the
admissions office, financial aid, ITEC, registrar all of
these departments on campus so that if you have a student
you are trying to buy that in Kentucky, you don't want to
talk to them on the phone and say e-mail me this and I will
email you this, and now you got to call financial aid, and
you got to call the registrar.
We can actually set up that
IM list to include our participants from each of the areas
on campus that we need to advise and communicate with
students who are really truly at the remote location.
And so if Lillian is advising
a student from Kentucky and that students
says you know I am not really sure with my
transcript or I don't mange financial aid or whatever, there
will be someone from one of those opposite that Lillian can
just ping on IM and say you know what, I have got Amy here
with me, I am trying to advise her and she has some issues
with her financial aid.
Can you please help us with this,
and so you can actually have a three way conversation right
there on the quid, you don't have to be on the phone or send
e-mail address.
It just really makes it very convenient for
the students so we are trying again to eliminate some
hurdles for these students and some barrier who are really
truly at remote locations and cannot come on
campus for assistance.
That will be integrated into Blackboard 9.1 for
academic use.
The plan role out for non academic use it's
bring 2011, because we do have a lot of departments on
campus who want to use it for meetings you know from here to
the golf coast or wherever so, there will be non academic
usage as well.
[Audience]
No, this does not replace it, this is in addition to, so
this will be a second tool I guess.
[Audience]

You know for the folks who are remote he is asking questions
about proof of violation that's a really good point, I think
those are some issues that we are going to have
to work through.
[Inaudible]

Right the thing about Pronto is because it's on a secure
server, hopefully that will prevent that from happening.
That's a really good point, I think that something will need
to fall upon to be sure of,
so that's a really good question.
So library integration is the next piece we have
been working on.
As you know when students are off campus in
the past they have had to go through the library website,
walk in with their ample ID to gain access to the databases.
We have now been working with the library to fully integrate
Blackboard 9.1 and the library so that if a student is on
the online course the faculty member can actually link to
the electronic document that they need for their students to
access, so the students would not have to walk in separately
to the library anymore you can go right to the document, it
make it much easier for the students.
So we thought a couple
of things that we were working on with that but that should
be ready by the time we completely roll out in Fall of 2011.
The PeopleSoft integration is probably more important for us
than you guys but the way we are doing things is really a
manual process.
Chadfield who is out Blackboard
administrator has t go through a lot of manual processed to
create these courses, all the supplements have to be done by
hand and Susan and Amy in the past and Chad and Megan and
several other people have sat their day after day after day
creating these course shelves for supplement.
And so one of the things
that we have done with Blackboard 9.1 and
PeopleSoft is everything is automated now, as a matter of
for the program 9.1 for the spring it is actually creating
those course shelves right now.
Chad is now having to do anything.
Everything has been automated so it's just does
this thing when it's supposed to do it.
The other cool thing about it too is it's real time.
So right now if the student enrolls in an online course
we have to you know we update
the system every few hours over couple of days and students
doesn't have immediate access to the course, they will now.
So they will have access to their course once they
registered for it, they will be able to get into without
waiting entire day to gain access to the course.
And that actually is completely working really well.
[Audience]

Right now the student registered, if a student registers
late, let's say it's a week into the semester, and if
student as a course, an online course -
[Audience]
Right.
So if I add the course you know a week late I don't
automatically get access to it, we have to run our processes
to dump that roster back in again, yeah, so this will be
automatic real time.
[Audience]

Where are we going, that's a nice segue into my next page,
so that's the perfect question that's where
I am going right now.
We have a question about the timeline, what we have
done for you is laid out what's happening right now and what
will happen on we are actually running CEA and 9.1
simultaneously, we are running both servers right now,
everything except for two programs is on 8.0 right now.
Currently on 9.1 we had the Blackboard for teachers
assistance and the masters of the commerce and science for
them to think positive engineering on 9.1.
There are these only two programs on 9.1.
In Spring we will role over to
Elementary Ed program for TA, the masters [inaudible]

with the construction engineering technology so
that will give us 5 programs on 9.1 by Spring.
Now the reason we are doing it like this
and I am know Jay is sitting in the room
and she experienced the pain that has
gone up from WebCT to Blackboard many of you did,
when we did that migration.
We want to take that as a very small
test, and particularly for the like staff sitting in the
room they appreciate that because this has been a very
stressful process just with these two programs.
What we hope to eliminate our large scale issues,
with the large scale audience.
So right now the issues that come up they are
small, you can handle them and it doesn't affect 14,000
students or 500 faculty.
They were really trying to keep it
small so that we can manage all that and figure out what the
best way is, to do what we have to do.
And so these groups have been very patient with us,
for the most part and they are actually teaching us
a lot of things that we need to
know about how things should happen.
So that's where we are
right not with the program that are on 9.1 and fall of 2011
all programs will be on 9.1 and 8.0 will go away.
So if you look at the training
what we are doing for the training in
the spring we train of course the two programs that are
currently on 9.1 right now and then in the fall we train, we
just finished training actually -- right Megan, except for
the three programs that were going on in Spring 2011 which
are the three stay here the elementary eds for coaching and
construction those folks were actually still in training of
[Audience]

That's a good question, Megan do you know
the answer of that?

[Inaudible]

When we get idea and we will talk about that in a few
minutes too as we start talking about what the migration is
going to look like but that is again a really good question.
So the folks to the remote site what he is asking is if you
have courses from two or three semesters ago, should you be
pulling information out of those courses that you think
would be necessary for the courses that 9.1, yes.
It wouldn't hurt you to start point some of that data out, we are
going to talk about that more in a few minutes.
So, by spring 2011
when I say we are going to have all other
programs in 9.1 here is what we want to see happen, and this
is not a written stone yet, we are still working through
this process and this is why we don't have another website
for you yet.
We had talked about doing beginning training
for 9.1 in January but the change management taskforce has
requested that we possibly are offering something sooner.
Now because we had the last couple of months really tied up
for these group programs we are going to 9.1 we haven't had
a lot of time to offer open training for 9.1 right now.
So,we have talked about
we haven't made a firm decision on yet
is to hold just open sort of sessions for you guys like for
Christmas may be sometime or after Thanksgiving we will have
two or three sessions where faculty can come doing a
concession about template, learn more about the tools and
the technology and then we can give you a developmental
course shelve to work with over the Christmas holidays and
start with.
The one of the things we are thinking is that,
in order to get access to that course shelve you are really
going to need to come through a concession so we can really
share with you sort of the pitfalls and the things that we
have learned as well as all the new wonderful [inaudible]
that go with it.
So, we are going to work toward
that and have a schedule on a workshop page before to much
longer about the new concessions that will happen prior to
the Christmas holidays.
So if you are interested in gaining
access to 9.1 before you leave for Christmas I would
encourage you to sign up for one of these workshops so that
you can get a shelve.
Lillian did you have question?

[Audience]

That is actually something that we are still trying to determine.
We have actually done it in a variety of ways,
and I would say we, the trainers in the room have done it in
a variety of ways.
And so that is something that we are
still trying to determine what the best way will be.
For the folks
that remote side if you couldn't hear Lillian what she
is asking is, would your courses just role over from 8.0 to
9.1 and I don't want to say yes, and I don't want to say no,
because we are trying to determine, what would be the least
amount of work for you guys and the reason that work for us
and what will work best so do those two things stay
together, I don't know, we are going to see.
So I don't have
a complete answer for you yet, but I can't tell you with the
five programs that we have been working with we have done in
a variety of ways, I think the trainers can probably tell
you they know what doesn't work.
But I think we had a really
good experience with the couple of faculty in training
yesterday that Megan actually kind of excited she said okay,
they did it this way and it worked really well so we want to
try it a little bit more to see what works.
So, you know I
am not trying to dance around the issue, I just want to know
that we had the best solution for you before we say this is
how we are going to do it.

[Inaudible]
Right, and we understand that, and so that's you know what
we don't want to do though is migrate everything over and
have you do a tremendous amount of work trying to clean that
up, we don't want to give you an empty course shelve we have
to start completely from scratch if that's not the best way
to do it.
So I think what the trainers are trying to do
right now is watch what faculty you are doing in training
you know they are trying different things to see what works
best but again Megan had these two faculty in yesterday,
they tried it in a different kind of way, it seemed to be
the best way with everyone in the room you know in terms of
how they were doing it and if we determine that's the best
way for you guys to do it, the next that we are going to
compare it so, what we don't want to do is hand you a bucket
of myth.
You know and so, we don't have a complete answer
for that yet, so we are working through it and I think by
the time you know well certainly by the time spring rolls
around we will have an answer for that because that's how
our training will be conducted and yeah, we want to be sure
that you guys have the best experience
when you take these courses.
Jeff did you have the question?
[Inaudible]

Everything will remain in 8.0 through spring and summer of
2011, so fall 2011 everything will be on 9.1 so if you are

currently not part of one of the five programs that you see
on the screen up here, you will not be in 9.1 okay, so you

are continuing to do your stuff in 8.0.
[Inaudible]
Eventually that's right.Everyone will move.
We have to have request to go ahead
and move to 9.1 people who are not part
of these programs and we are not doing that because it's a
tremendous amount of work.
There are a lot of manual things
we are still doing for these five programs and so, we just
can't do for everybody right now.
We are just trying to keep
it small, like that we can pinpoint problems more through
those issues.
Amy.

[Inaudible]

Right now your students have access to the course the day
school begins, unless you e-mail us and say can you give my
students, oh you are just waiving your hands.

[Inaudible]

Okay.
Right, so for our folks who are remote, with Susan he
has just said is it will be up to the faculty member now to
make the course available.
Thank you Susan, so we are not
accessing anymore right now what we do as a faculty,
particularly endorsing through the proper nursing.
If they want the students to have access
or e-mail can just say
please enroll my course early for my students.
But based on what Susan has just said
the faculty member will have that control.
[Inaudible]

So, Margaret if you are asking about the students work from

8.0 that material should be contained in archive and there

shouldn't be any problem with that at all.
I mean we keep everything archived
both at our host site with Blackboard
and in Chad also does a backup and keeps it on DVD so if you
are asking if materials that have been submitted previously
in 8.0 will still be available kind of goes back to what
Megan was saying, if you want to pull any of that down I am
going to go ahead and pull it down now if you want an
archive copy we can give you that as well.
Does that answer Margaret question?
I hope it does, if not she can clarify for you.
[Audience]
Okay, good.

How will make the sports available to students who turn --
[Audience]
I think that something you learn in training Chris.
Is that right Susan?
[Audience]
Susan says it's a simple click so hopefully
that answers your question.
[Informal Talk]
We are we are going to say that just a second we are going
to finish up and Mike is going to give you a little flung in
the answer what it looks like.
The last thing I want to
share with you guys Michael and Megan and Julie and Susan
and the four of them Megan, have really sort of taken the
pull by the horns and have been working tremendously to
develop all kinds of training materials support to you guys
and so it's really going to be more support I think than you
have experienced in the past not just Blackboard that's one
thing Susan was talking about this morning is that there is
a lot more support out there for 9.1.
Again with 8 every
thing we had to remember is they were no longer going to
upgrade or update 8.0.
So we were really going to kind to be
going out into the woods with 8.0 if we didn't upgrade and
so this really is the time to do it I think.
I wanted to be
sure that we were on the platform that was being supported.
So what we have to do here and I will tell you about
something we haven't released to you yet.
But we have two
things here, we have the quick reference site for instructor
and what this does is this provides for you what happened in
8.0, what's going to happen in 9.1.
So it's the site by pie chart
so you can actually go in there and see the difference
between the existing product and the product
to be implemented.
So that's a nice document there for you guys
and then Amy should go back.
So you can go in there and
download that and pull that up.
Browser compatibility I know
this is an issue and you guys get a lot of calls from your
students about issues with the browser.
One thing when Susan
and I were talking this morning and I said what are some of
the big things we can tell them that's going to make them
smile and everyone said Java, hopefully the Java issue has
been fixed and hopefully that has been issue for everyone.
Yeah, they liked that.
We get some thumbs up from Vimba,
that's a good thing.
So that and what was the other thing
Susan that you told me?
Job time out and so we think those
two issues have been resolved so what people --

[Audience]
In 8.0, I don't know if we know what's caused it,
honestly I don't
[Audience]
In 9.1, it's resolved in 9.1 yeah resolved in 9.1.
Do we know what's caused in 8.0?
[Audience]
Okay, yeah that's not good and if you can send us an email
about that we can put in worksheet with Blackboard and

although we continue to have this problem to see if they can
at least try and fix it.
[Audience]
It was on 8.0, yes.
[Audience]
Right, okay.
The last thing okay but - before we do that
let's go to the try and I will finish and Michael can wrap
up with the template what they want to say.
So last thing I wanted to share with you guys
before Michael comes up and
shows you what the template looks like through this whole
process we have been fortunate enough in the last two years
to receive congressional directed fund to help us pay for
this project.
So fortunately we haven't had to use the lot
of university money to pay for this including
the faculty stipends.
All the faculty stipends, departmental stipends,
the purchase of --, the purchase of Intelliworks all those
things have been through congressional directed fund.
And so we feel very fortunate that
we have been able to do that
particularly in this economic hard time that
we were all experiencing.
So the piece that's coming out of the
congressional grant that we receive this year one of the
things that we design is what we are calling our
expository triad.
Now there are three components of course
to the triad.
The first being an online course that will provide
for faculty modules on best practices, on teaching
strategies, online teaching strategy what else do we have up
there, pedagogical resources, instructional resources for
using tools in Blackboard 9.1 environment, the trainers have
been developing all kinds of great training materials for
you guys, point out some Blackboard great training materials
but there is all kind of pieces that will be available in
this online course for faculty to go and access and can even
be used as a training course.
In some cases, particularly
for faculty who are teaching remote locations, this may be
the only training that they get because they certainly can't
come every [inaudible] center
and do some hands-on training, so that's
the first piece of the triad.
The second component of the
triad will include access to some online webinar, that we
are going to purchase for you guys, we are going to purchase
about a dozen webinars that we will make available to
faculty that will include all kinds of things intellectual
property, copyright, best practices on how to use a
discussion board appropriately, how to engage our students
better in online environment, it could be whole sort of
webinars that we will purchase.
The third piece of the
component will be where the faculty member will meet with
the instructional designer in the Student Think Center.
If none of you are familiar with that project,
I encourage you to go and visit that
the Student Think Center website to
better understand how to systematically integrate thinking
and learning processes in the classroom and in a sense, it's
very simple.
Jeff Kauffman is part of our Think Center
advisory team.
This is our new title Three Grant that we
have just received and we have just completed our first
year, so we are trying to really pull into think center and
integrate it into the campus.
So I do encourage you to learn
more about that.
Now the thing about the Exploratory Triad,
the triad itself, we have designated in the grant for 35
faculties to receive $500 stipend for completing the
Exploratory Triad.
And as you can see, few of these things
can be done from your desk.
The online course can be done
from your desk and online webinar can be done
from your desk.
The only thing that will require you to come over to
the learning at think center is to meet with Shanna Luke in
the Student Think Center -- a two-hour consultation meeting.
So once you complete this course, you will get $500 stipend
for doing the entire triad.
We will send out a call for proposal,
so [inaudible] for the holidays probably.
And you have opportunity to apply
and a committee again will select 35 faculties
who will get to participate in the entire triad.
Now, in addition to the triad, and this is a recommendation
by the Change Management Taskforce, we will make the online
course available to all faculties.
So anyone who [overlapping] learning more about
online learning or seeing
what we are doing at USM or what we consider our best
practices and that type of thing that online course will be
available to all faculties.
They won't of course get a
stipend for just going to the course.
Again that stipend
will be limited to 35 faculties who participate in the
entire Exploratory Triad.
So that's kind of the last piece
that we have going over this project and
I think [inaudible] there has been a lot of activities
in the last 18 months to get us
to the point where we are today.
I do feel like we are building a much
stronger online presence.
It's certainly not all done through, like in ELO it's the
faculty who makes the strong program that it is because it
certainly comes down to the content and quality
of the courses.
We are here to support you guys for whatever it is
you need, but it really comes down to you guys doing the
work and teaching the courses.
And we just want to make it
as simple and as easy and high quality for you as we
possibly can.
So with that said, I know what you really want
to see is the and I have asked Michael Trest to come up here
and share with you guys, sort of a tour of the template.

[Informal Talk]

Alright, well like she said, my name is Michael Trest.

I am an online course developer at LEC,
started June and this is
all I have known besides my courses that I am taking
currently in my PhD classes.
So anyway, this is the template.

You got your main course content page and that's
what's called The Course Content.
And we are going to go
into much deep questions about the content and all those
kinds of stuff that will be handled in training, so this is
just kind of an overview.
But when the student or you come
into the class, you will see all of the main parts right
over here, course content, getting started, course
materials, and course resources.

[Audience]
Great question.
In CE8, we had three tabs, right, the Build,
the Teach, well they don't do tabs anymore and they have
kind of combined Build and Teach together,
now we have edit mode.
And for the purpose of beginning, let's turn the Edit
mode off.
this is what it's going to look like for the
students, right.
Notice, not little tools are gone, I don't
have any of the nice editable features anymore, this is just
what the students see except for they won't see this.
But whenever they come in,
they are going to see the course
information here, number one, number two, number three.
Number one is Getting Started and it's a learning module,
it's for those of you who are familiar with CE8 and they are
kind of similar.
They will come in here and basically this
is a breakdown of [inaudible]
and the course information and things that the students
are going to need to know once they are in the class.

[Audience]
Right.
All of this [inaudible] for you to get in there,
this is all going to be
here.
Like this right here, this is a place for picture, so
all you have to do is replace the picture, put your
information in and you are done with this part instead of
having a blank show where you have to go in and make the
getting-started or make a course introduction,
it's all there.
There is a lot of the stuff that you won't have to
change at all.
[Audience]
Yes, you can put video, you can put all sorts of content.
That's one of the great features about it, you can pull to
lots of different places.

[Audience]
Yes you can, it's not a problem to edit or delete or move it
around, however you want.

[Audience]
There is e-mail and it's now called messages and once in
training, we will talk more about e-mail.
[Informal Talk]
Anyways, just a quick thing, I mean you can read there is

contact information and stuff which you have to change.
Technical requirement, you don't have to do much about it.
It gives you kind of information about the technical
requirements for Blackboard and even for online students.
You probably want to have a word processing program etc. You
even know how to navigate the Internet.
There are lots of students
who come on and they just don't have the clue.
So our goal is to support you,
but also kind of help the
students have a clue about what's going on.
And a lot of
this stuff like Sherry was talking about, we have gotten
from faculty during training.
Why don't we have this,
student can really need this, let's put in this in.
So anyways,
it goes through navigating, how to navigate.
This is the way a learning module looks like now.
You have got your main menu,
you have your table of content and you have
the content here.
So let me show you what a learning module
looks like to you as a teacher and instructor.

You remember in the Build tab in C8,
you couldn't see the content, you just have a list of items.
Well since they have combined
Build and Teach, now it's kind of long list of things, but
you can see the content.

And let's say that I wanted to put,
I wanted to change the place of it.
Do you remember how we
had the weird moving thing?
Yeah you don't have to do that
anyway, you just click it and try --
[Audience]
So you asked about how easier it is to edit and stuff?
Of course we still have the Action links, you go in and you
edit it and it's just as simple as that.

And I will not going to see much of it,
because that's for the funs of training.
But you can see, it's very similar to Word or
anything like that, you can still add attachments and you
know garage computer and stuff like that.
So that's the learning module and that's the Getting Started.

Do we have any questions?
[Audience]

Alright so we go back to course content.

The main section of
the course is your Course Material, this is where everything
is going to be and we have added some things in here based
upon feedbacks from other faculty members.
A common place for assignments,
a common place for assessments and then an
easy way to get to the discussion board, it's all going to
be right there in the Course Material.

And then the weekly
unit, so if I come in and I am a brand new faculty and I
don't know anything about teaching online, I can click on
Course Materials and say, oh well week one goes in week one.
And if you don't like the way it says week unit one, you can
change it to say module, you can change it to say, hey you
all, this is the first week, it doesn't matter, everything
is editable.
And then you go in and we had all kinds of
other stuff and then faculty said, we are not going to use
that, so we could get out.
You have got your goals and
objectives and then materials and you can put all kinds of
information in there based upon your course and
how you want to do it.
Now notice, up here and we have talked about in

the Getting Started, talked about navigation, you can get
back to Course Materials here, you can get back to Course
Materials here, so it's all right there for you.

[Audience]
She asked if you could change the main colors of the
template, and the answer is no, that's part of the branding,
the recommendation that Blackboard gave.
[Audience]

And you can change some of the title colors and things like
this, but as far as the background and having little poppy
things in there.
The reasoning that I got from Blackboards
and from other guys is that it's easier on the students and
for people with accessibility issues and things like this,
it's just, whenever you go in, it's real difficult as a
brand new student to say, oh where do I go or if you have to
use a screen reader.
So now we know your tests are going to
be assessment.
Week one stuff is in week one.
And correct me
if I am wrong,[inaudible]
got a really good word for accessibilities.
[Audience]
From the blind federation yeah, so I mean it's all, it's
made for your ease and for students' ease in that, okay.
So the last part is Course Resources
and you can get there on
the main link or you can be on the front link.
It's another learning module as you can see,

but this one is only
information that may help you, Instructor Support, and then

it may help the student, issues with what computer stuff,

24x7 help, Blackboard Tutorials for student.
We have library listings.
In Course Resources that may help the student, you
are going to stick in here.
Anything that you don't want
like, right here APA and MLA tutorials, why don't you use
the one that you want, otherwise just take it out, if you
use [inaudible] whatever, then take it out.
[Audience]

I can't remember it's the new one, I think that it's just a
link to the library tutorials.

And then within these
resources, there is a folder for you Instructor.
Need help,
this is Blackboard 9.1 Tutorials for faculty, they are not
currently available to anybody outside of the faculty, not
within the program.
But, yeah let's see what we have got.

There are video tutorials and PDF tutorials.
And when I tell you that we have collected
a lot of stuff to try to help you
guys sort of understand it.
We have gotten Blackboard
tutorials and we have made up our own with some questions
from faculty and issues that have arisen and we have made it
to tailor our faculty.

And notice, this is still on Blackboard.
So it's just other resources that have come out

[Audience]

I mentioned without going into great details about them, so
they have integrated a lot of Web 2.0 tools, blogs, Wikis as
well as your traditional discussion boards in general.
We have also got the [inaudible] like classroom

and the NBC thing.
I was going to go there -
[Audience]

Yes, you will have these things called Mashup and we don't
really know why they chose the word Mashup to describe this
thing, but you can take information videos, media from other
sources like Flickr, YouTube, SlideShare, it's right in
there and it's right there --

[Audience]
He asked about videos going into the podcast sever and
having to log in, and log in, and log in just to
get to the content.
Well I am not really quite sure about the podcast
and stuff that's not my cup of tea, but with YouTube and

some of your campaigning, you can make them private we have
got tutorials on how to do that actually right in here.
You can make them private and then put them in your course.
[Audience]
Only the person who has that link, which is going to be
the person who is going to be in here.
And I want to share, Michael, my concern here for
[inaudible] we are working towards IT&G solutions like
university communications and some of

the information [inaudible] yesterday.
There is a building block for
Blackboard 9.1 where we can integrate IT&G into Blackboard
which will make access to the podcast much easier.
So that is a solution we are working forward as well to -
brought that up.
And USM does have a YouTube channel, so you can also offload
the things when you have some YouTube channel.
[Audience]

One of the things that you will see here on to the Mashups
is NBC content.
One of the things that we are beginning with
Blackboard 9.1 is access to the NBC News Archives,
everything.
So you don't have to worry about copyright
permission and that type of things, everything that NBC News
has ever done will be archived and available to the faculty.
And just to kind of show you how it looks for student

whenever you put one of these "Mashups" in, I have made a
tutorial about how to - oh yeah it's in the instructor one.

I have made a, how to use the SlideShare which is just an
easier kind of more upfront way to put a PowerPoint into
your classroom.
But basically when students come in, click
on the link that's what they would see and then, you just

click through the PowerPoint, so you don't have to upload a
PowerPoint, download it, having to download a PowerPoint, it
has an hope that it's going to open on that computer once it
gets there.
[Audience]
SlideShare you upload your PowerPoint to it and it converts
it to little Flash application.
It's cool.

I haven't seen
how to get in here yet,but it's really cool.
And well take it back,
you can embed a Prezi, so you can put it in
your course.
[Audience]

A Prezi, it's a presentation tool, I have just done it not
too long ago, Bonnie Cooper in the Think Center
showed a few.
But basically it's a PowerPoint that moves around all
over the place, the text moves and it's very eye-catching to
help to motivate your students to want to look at you life-
sharing instead of just seeing a still picture,
it's interesting.
Yeah it zooms in and zooms out, you can put
Flash and text and [inaudible] stuff
and not to say that you like [inaudible]
I am not saying that.
Audience:Well there is a couple of questions,
I am not sure if we can answer this one that
why not CBS or BBC [overlapping] contracted with NBC?
You got [inaudible] contracted with NBC.
And then are there copyright issues

for foreign language new resources?
I would say that anything that you want to use in your

course, if you are uncertain as to whether or not you need
copyright permission, I would obtain copyright permission.
And again that's one of the things that we are tying to work

on through this whole initiative is to get some clear
guidelines and policies for you guys, because it's better to
be safe than sorry.
And some people say it's well because
it's behind, it's password protected site that I can use
whatever I want, that's not always necessarily
true and safe.
I got the business people, they are shaking there, I
am sure they know, so I would say if you are uncertain
always ask for permission.

[Audience]

He asked about SlideShare and if you still have to make and
extend PowerPoint and Screencast and stuff.
And the answer is no,
you just upload your PowerPoint as it is. No, it can't have
transitions in there.
I believe they always put sound
in there and I am not sure about videos, but I know that it's like this was, I
just made this in PowerPoint just exact
like you see it.
[Audience]
Okay and you said that you cannot add an audio recording on
top of it and it just clicks through slides, just as here
and you can even make it full screen.
So it can work like a

slide show in PowerPoint.
[Audience]

I mean you are talking about download and upload speed, it's
just like that, their servers are great and they are
accounts free.
[Audience]
They don't have to have PowerPoint, they just have to have
Flash compatible browser, so they couldn't watch them on
iPad or iPhone or anything, but on most computers they can.
Audience:USM is speaking some of the great [inaudible]

guidelines for helping students to give online
presentation to teach requirement.
Good question, that's a really good question.

And I should know the answer to that.
I do know that Wendy Atkins Sayer
and Melanie Barthelme do a lot of work for online students,
particularly online tutoring.
So I am going to assume and
say, yes but I will find out for sure about that, but I know
that Wendy and Melanie both, I mean they have tremendous
amount of work to assist the online students.
And the other thing, just like YouTube or Flickr, you can

make this public, so they can be searchable from anything,
but you can also make them private, so that only those
people with the link and it's just right here,
you can get to it.
So if you are worried about intellectual properly and
other people who are getting here, things don't -- because
you can make them aware of all these people that have access
to this place, right here, can get it.
So it's pretty nice
and there are these kinds of features out there in the new
template in 9.1, but that's pretty much it.
[Audience]

On YouTube videos.
[Audience]

For those of you out in Wimba launch, she was asking, what's
the limit on the YouTube videos and currently the time limit
is 15 minutes.
Now if you want to use YouTube, all you have
to do is pay the Windows Movie Maker or iMovie and something
and cut in half, you know it's very easy to do.
And both of those tools now are very easy to just upload
straight to YouTube.
You can also use Wimba and stuff like that, but as
far as video quality, I have seen it amazingly crystal-clear
and pretty much accessible to anybody they want, straight
through YouTube and you just chop it in half and stick it up
there and it doesn't take very long.
One nice thing about uploading in YouTube is they have added
something, where it will capture it for you, so you don't
have to worry about it, it helps
with acceptability component.
It will auto transfer it for you and like [inaudible] join it's free.
[Audience]

Yeah.
And for any of this multimedia stuff that's one thing that
we have really been trying to do is make sure that
everything is accessible.
If you have a video up there and
put a transcript with it, if you have got a Wimba Live
session that you are talking, you are lecturing, put a
transcript up there with it.
And lots of these tools have
that like YouTube does, where they can just capture
that with it.
[Informal Talk]
Are there questions, yes sir?
[Audience]
Okay, what he is asking, the folks that are not hearing,

because we have the same issue here in the

[inaudible] where kind of students come to proctor.

The proctor has internet password, IP address

of the campus location.
And you are asking is that kind of a -- computer

to be that as our global solution for that.

I don't know,
but we'll find out for you,
definitely we'll find out for you.
It's a really good question because proctoring is a
huge issue everywhere.
And we do have a lots of students who
come into our center for proctoring and you guys are doing
your own proctoring, several departments of our campus are -
- so that's a really good question, we'll find out now,
because I don't know, I don't know what the answer is.

Other questions?
Any other question from Wimba LAN.
Is it responding for some of the test format available?
That's something that we have talked about.
It's not a solution
that we have actually purchased, that doesn't mean
that we won't purchase it.
I think if we have enough
interest in faculty on campus for responders, that's
something that can certainly look at.
[Audience]

So Valerie Simmons in Accounting is saying that faculties
are using the Wiley products, the Wiley textbook, do you
have access to responders, they are giving this faculty
access to responders.
So I think that's something we can
investigate, yeah absolutely.
Another thing I mentioned to
you guys is we are talking about social media and Facebook
tools and those kinds of thing, there is an application for
Facebook, for Blackboard 9.1, where students can actually
add the Blackboard app to their Facebook page and it will
notify them, if there are new assignments, new discussions,
it doesn't tell them what it is, it just says you know you
have new discussions in your Blackboard course or an
Accounting 200 or whatever.
They can actually add that app
to their Facebook page.

[Audience]
I am looking at the trainer.
I think that's the training question.
That's a training question.
Valerie asks about basically the
logistics of setting up your assessment and I think she is
our assessment person, she just left.
[Audience]
Ask it again Valerie, if you would.

[Audience]
And you do what's called the random blocks, I mean it's kind

of a training issue.
-- ask more question, you have to have a bigger pool than
that if you are testing to random - student A and B not have
That's right, you can't have student A and student B have
completely different tests, but yes as a tradeoff, you do
have to have more questions and that hasn't changed.
Okay another question.

When [inaudible] getting testing products,
if you are responders,
can we get one that have blocks of students
that we can pass on to other [inaudible].
One of the things, so the question they are asking about

[inaudible] browser, so when you are giving test online or
is there a tool that we can purchase that will prevent
students from (a) either printing or (b) accessing anything
out from their computer.
Yes we have been talking about that
a conceivable amount, actually and change [inaudible]
taskforce because cheating is such a huge issue
for online courses.
So it is something that we are working at.
It is something we are going to purchase quite possibly.
So we noted that, so yes we make purchase of that product.
Are there questions?
Okay Michael is going to --

unfortunately for the people of Wimba LAN who are not going
to get to see this that I will try and describe the best I can.
I had been working for the last six or nine months on
something called Mobile Central.
If you quote any conversations,
Mike talked about Mobile Central.
Basically what Mobile Central is,
I mean you can go out with your
iPhone or your Android or whatever to an app store and you
can download right now, it's called [inaudible].
And Mobile Central provides access to things
like maps on campus, the library, course listings, all of
these kinds of things that are available in the university
that you would know mostly on a website.

The other component of Mobile Central is Mobile Learn
and that is where students
will actually access their courses, their online courses
from their iPad or their smartphone.
They are still working on that component of it
for the Mobile Central product and eventually students
will have access to their online courses
through their mobile devices.
If that's what you were going
to say Michael --
Yeah and it's look very cool and it works.
[Audience]
5-star in app store.
[Audience]
No, Flash content, that's correct.
I have another question about that [inaudible] number one,
do we order book -- via Assign Textbook tab?
That it's just name of the textbook and picture and then --

No, it only shows the name of the textbook and the picture
and the approximate price.

Not in ordering process.

Are there questions?
[Informal Talk]

I thank all of you for your time.
This is really[inaudible] gaining of where we are headed.
We would appreciate any feedback
or comment that you didn't share with us today.
You can e-mail us, you have lot of time to
think about it, concerns you have.
Certainly, as we get into
training and we start getting more feedback from you guys.
It will help us tremendously.
One thing to keep in mind that
a template not [inaudible] and send.

You know when we were trying to start
this course for study - we said we are training because it
is the most up-to-date template, the template that the 9.1
faculties are using right now, it is different from this one
because there is some feedback we have been receiving it has
been modified again already.
And I said that to Julianne's question
about we get pink or green or whatever, again one
of the things that president wanted to see was that branding
of what Eagle Learning Online should be and what statement
it makes to the university [inaudible]
so that's why kind of locked down the colors,
you can't edit a lot of things as Michael said, the colors
and banner and that type of thing will not be editable.
Thank you.

[Audience]
She asked where the course name will go, and it's right on
the front page of course content, the course name
will be here.
[Audience]
Yeah you can change the font size and you can change the
color of the font there if you want, for those of you who
like to change the color.

[Audience]
That's standard across the Blackboard.
[Audience]
Can you talk about the messages icon?

Of course that's the e-mail.
It's really a training question.
There are some differences
and we won't get into that here.
Just be aware, there are some changes that you are going to
see, the names of things are different, they are not called
the same things anymore.
Messages relate to e-mail and C8
and again that's something that you are learning training.
And so part of what we are having to do in training, and I
keep saying "we" you guys don't want me chiming in for sure.
But part of what the trainers are doing to the same process,
it's trying to explain the differences, okay it used to be
this way in A, here [inaudible] into the 9.1

and here's what it's called.
So for the person
who asks the question about messages, messages
really were like in fact the e-mail and that is something
that will be covered in training.
The announcement feature is still there is,
so that would still be available as well.
So I hope [inaudible] we got question
about the messages icon.
Are there questions?
[Audience]

It will be a training question, that's right.
So thank you

all so much for coming.
[Informal Talk]