{"id":75025,"date":"2019-01-07T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/?p=75025"},"modified":"2018-12-18T15:20:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:20:40","slug":"try-the-better-version-of-blackboard-courses-this-spring-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/try-the-better-version-of-blackboard-courses-this-spring-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Try the Better Version of Blackboard Courses This Spring!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to offer a new course experience in Blackboard, available by request for any Spring \u201919 course. It\u2019s Learn Ultra, a new course view that offers a streamlined, more intuitive interface and workflows.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve successfully tested it with a fall pilot of 11 faculty, 20 courses, and over 200 students. One of the cohort, Shala Hankison, said, \u201cI would generally recommend Ultra, I like the format and much of it is very easy. I have had no complaints from students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the new Ultra course experience here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tiny.cc\/OWUBbUltra19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/tiny.cc\/OWUBbUltra19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To opt in and try the new Ultra course view for your spring course(s), just send a request to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helpdesk@owu.edu<\/a>\u00a0letting us know the following:<br \/>\n1) Which course(s) you\u2019d like to convert.<br \/>\n2) Whether you plan to copy structure &amp; content from a previous course in Blackboard or whether you plan to build it from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you choose to opt in or not, please let us know if you have any questions about this new version.<\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Information Services.<br \/>\nContact: David Soliday at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helpdesk@owu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to offer a new course experience in Blackboard, available by request for any Spring \u201919 course. It\u2019s Learn Ultra, a new course view that offers a streamlined, more intuitive interface and workflows. We\u2019ve successfully tested it with a fall pilot of 11 faculty, 20 courses, and over 200 students. One of the cohort, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facultystaff-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75025"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75279,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75025\/revisions\/75279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/dailymonster\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}