Fox Valley Technical College Internet Instructors' Support Site              

WELCOME!

The FVTC Blackboard Support Team
Instructional Development & Delivery (IDD) Division Offices, E133, Appleton Campus

Terri Langan  Vicki Sahr  Marge Jeffers
langan@fvtc.edu sahr@fvtc.edu jeffersm@fvtc.edu
920-735-4760  920-735-4816 920-831-4397
bulletFaculty training; course design, development, delivery and updating assistance
bulletStudent Support and Course Creation/Copy/Archiving/Deletion
bulletIDD Director (Overall Blackboard Responsibility)

Online Course Quality Standards

Quality Standards for Online Courses (eTech, updated 2007) -- (Word) These standards are used for course reviews as part of the ongoing quality assurance efforts to guarantee best possible courses offered online at FVTC.

 Academic Suite Login

FVTC account holders: Use your PeopleSoft user name and password. FVTC instructors, this is the user name and password you use daily to log into the system. Non-FVTC users, please contact Terri or Vicki for account access.

Training Opportunities

24/7/365

IQS Online

for faculty moving courses into a 100% online delivery mode (may be used as an in-lieu-of for #52, Teaching Methods)

TBD Bb Refresher-Academic Suite software upgrade training you need before using the new features and functionality of Academic Suite
24/7/365 Introduction to Blackboard for faculty and/or staff putting up a support area for classroom courses or other uses of BB
TBD Customized training for online and blended delivery Designed and facilitated by requesting groups

For more information, about any training option, contact Terri Langan, langan@fvtc.edu or 920-735-4760.

To request a session for a group of faculty and/or staff, or to register for one of these sessions, contact Shannon Helms, helms@fvtc.edu (Training & Development).

Blackboard Academic Suite Support Materials

All materials on this site may be downloaded and customized to meet your needs.

Information provided here is based on key questions and requests for assistance initiated by FVTC Internet instructors using Blackboard to deliver online courses and/or support classroom courses. This site is intended for the use of FVTC's Internet instructors and others who take the FVTC Internet Qualification Series and/or Blackboard orientation sessions. It is by no means a comprehensive Blackboard help site, which is located at http://www.blackboard.com.

Periodically, new information will be added. Bookmark the site so you can check back often!

FVTC Welcome Letter and Syllabus Templates

...are now located inside Blackboard--My Content tab-->Institution Content-->Online Templates folder

Academic Suite How-To's

Most standard procedures for managing your course content do not change with the upgrade.

For the Version 6x/Bb Learning System "usual" how-to's, click here: Blackboard Version 6. This is the link to the "old"  Internet Instructors' Support Site.

For information on how to work with the new Learning System (which is essentially the old familiar Blackboard Basic) or the Content System (which is brand new)--

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Log into into Blackboard Academic Suite and click on the tab called, "My Content."

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Click on "Institution Content."

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Open the Internet Instructors' Support Materials folder.

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Open the folder that contains the training materials you'd like to review.

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Open, review, and if you'd like, download the documents you need.

"Institution Content" inside the "My Content" tab is where new "how-to" documents and presentations will be stored!

Terri Langan, System Administrator

Faculty Training & Support

Vicki Sahr, System Administrator

Student Support

Marge Jeffers, IDD Division Director

langan@fvtc.edu sahr@fvtc.edu jeffersm@fvtc.edu
920-735-4760 920-735-4816 920-831-4397

All materials located on this site are intended for the sole use of FVTC Internet Instructors.

For permission to use any materials on this site, contact Terri Langan, langan@fvtc.edu

Instructional Development & Delivery Division

Wednesday, January 23, 2008