Office of Academic Technology :: Spring Arbor University

Faculty Tab Added to MySAU

The Office of Academic Technology in partnership with Technology Services software development team are pleased to unveil a new tab in MySAU.  Now all faculty will see a “Faculty” tab in the top navigation.  The faculty tab contains information from the Office of Academic Technology.  The page contains RSS feeds of OAT news and events [...]

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Blackboard Update To Fix Some Issues

Technology Services recently completed testing and preparations for Blackboard’s latest upgrades. We will be taking the primary system offline to install these upgrades October 8, beginning at 2:30 AM Eastern time. The upgrade will last approximately three hours. As a result of the upgrade you can expect these improvements: Discussion forums can now be re-ordered by [...]

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Chat Service Released

The Office of Academic Technology is pleased to release a new service to SAU faculty:  OAT Live Chat.  OAT Live Chat is a Web-based chat service that instantly connects SAU faculty to OAT staff with no software, training, or installations.  It just works.  ”Many faculty, specifically regional site adjunct faculty, are many times traveling, speaking, [...]

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OATmeal Recap: Blackboard 9 Basics & Bugs

Last week the Office of Academic Technology kicked off its third year with an overview of Blackboard 9. Held in the Ralph Carey Forum during lunch, the OAT team presented on a variety of changes in Blackboard 9.  Instructional Designer David Goodrich kicked off the presentations by providing an overview of the Assignment Tool [...]

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Clear Formatting Tip for Font Issue

Some have come across an issue in Blackboard 9 where they go to edit information in an item and the font shrinks to a smaller size. Blackboard is aware of this bug and is working on it, but this is a brief tutorial on a work-around at the moment for removing the formatting so that this does not happen.

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Blackboard 9 Issues List

Blackboard Update to 9.0 Release Technology Services recently completed testing and preparations for Blackboard’s latest upgrades. We will be taking the primary system offline to install these upgrades October 8, beginning at 2:30 AM Eastern time. More Blackboard 9.0 Release Notes for Spring Arbor University Blackboard has released an all-new version of Blackboard Learn, previously known as the Blackboard [...]

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Blackboard 9 Course Menu Quick Tip

In this quick tip Blackboard 9 tutorial, you will be shown how to enable the folder view and toggle between the folder view, list view, displaying the course menu in a new window and using the refresh button within the course menu.

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Blackboard 9 Cookbooks

The following is a comprehensive list of all Blackboard 9 Cookbooks.  OAT cookbooks are small, consumable task-based PDF downloads.  The purpose is to provide easy to use tutorials to assist in the Blackboard 9 transition.  The list will be growing and added to this post.  Feel free to contact us or comment on the cookbooks [...]

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Bb 9: Communicating with Students

Blackboard Learn™ offers a wide variety of communication tools allowing students and faculty to share information and communicate, either synchronously—in real-time—or asynchronously—not at the same time. This following resources provide a hands-on introduction to many of these tools, offering instructors ways to extend a sense of community beyond the traditional classroom. These tutorials will show you [...]

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Access Atomic Learning

Master Credentials Please Login to read the rest of this content using your SAU username and password. Why login? About Atomic Learning Atomic Leaerning is a subscription-based video tutorial site with thousands of short task-based video tutorials for you to use in professional development as well as for your students in class.  Because Atomic Learning is [...]

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