Prevent Cheating During Exams with Respondus

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Instructor Trainings with Respondus

This September, attend a 45-minute training session on how to effectively use Respondus applications for online testing. Learn how to create online assessments with Respondus 4, or see how to prevent cheating during online exams using LockDown Browser.

Sign up today to learn how to use these applications!

LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor: Prevent Cheating During Online Exams

Tuesday, September 13 at 2pm CT

Wednesday, September 28 at 1pm CT

Respondus 4.0: Create & Manage Exam Content

Thursday, September 8 at 1pm CT

Blackboard Faculty Support Guide 2016-2017

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Blackboard is MATC’s web-based learning environment.  Although Blackboard is used in online courses as the primary means of course delivery, all faculty are required to post a course syllabus to all courses in Blackboard and make their courses are available to students.  For face-to-face and blended courses, faculty are encouraged to support student success by posting course announcements, grade feedback, and supplemental materials in their courses in Blackboard.

Getting Started Information 

Faculty Training Courses

To learn to use the Blackboard online learning environment, faculty should complete our three (3) Blackboard professional development courses. Please see our fall schedule of training courses for more information.

Instructional Support

For one-on-one help with getting started, reviewing how to use Blackboard, or other instructional technologies, see an instructional support faculty liaison during their open lab hours.See their schedule for availability.

For short Blackboard questions that can be answered in 15 minutes or less, visit a Blackboard Faculty Support team member in the Milwaukee Campus’s Faculty Innovation Center during their Quick Help Hours:

Kameal Love
Hours: 9-10 AM; 2-3 PM
Ed. Assistant – ER&D; Bb Admin
lovek2@matc.edu  ext. 78937		 Megan Hamilton
Hours: 10-11 AM; 3-4 PM
Ed. Assistant – Distance Learning; Bb Admin
hamiltml@matc.edu ext. 78372

Student Support

Creating Portfolio Assignments in Blackboard

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Instructors may create assignments in their courses that require students to build a portfolio using Blackboard’s portfolio tool. A portfolio is a website that students use to collect and present evidence of their learning and skill development over time. A portfolio often contains work samples or links to projects that the student has completed. To learn more about this tool, please watch the video playlist below and review the step-by-step PDF instructions.

Blackboard Migration & Upgrade Happening May 25th through May 29th

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Blackboard will be unavailable starting May 25th through May 29th due to upgrade/migration.

In order to maintain a high level of continuous service, MATC-Distance Learning in conjunction with the Information Technology Department, have decided to migrate the entire Blackboard learning management system to a hosted solution with Blackboard.

The migration will take place beginning May 25th and continue through May 29th.  This means that no one will have access to Blackboard during this time.  All students and faculty will need to logoff Blackboard by 11:59 pm on May 24th.  We anticipate the LMS being available on Monday May 30th, however we will be conducting testing during the week of May 30th.

When Blackboard comes back on-line, we will be at a newer version however there is minimal front-end change impacting students and faculty.  The Distance Learning team is working on reviewing any changes that will effect faculty and/or students and will communicate those changes to the groups prior to the migration.

For additional information about the upgrade, please see our Upgrade FAQs Spreadsheet.

Thank you for your patience as we continuously strive to provide quality educational technology products.

- ​Distance Learning and Information Technology​

End of Semester Tasks – Online Teaching Best Practices

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At the end of each semester, instructors teaching within Blackboard must perform a series of tasks called the End of the Semester Process. This process is helpful for preserving a record of an instructor’s course content, Grade Center, and student work in an Archive file.

PLEASE NOTE! It is the instructor’s responsibility to perform the Archive process and download steps in each course they have taught so that content and grade information can be accessed at a later date!