TLTC Summer Series – Step it Up with Technology | Real Time Communication with Blackboard Collaborate June 11, 2014 This session will introduce participants to Blackboard Collaborate, a real-time online communication tool. Faculty can now offer synchronous online lectures, office… Continue Reading »
The Teaching, Learning and Technology Center is again offering their annual summer technology workshops for faculty and staff. This year the theme is Step It Up With Technology. Don’t miss these informative sessions, all held in the Computer Training Classroom,… Continue Reading »
March – May 2014 The TLT Center is please to present several 60-minute workshops focusing on tools and best practices for online and hybrid course design. If you are teaching, developing or thinking of designing a hybrid or online course,… Continue Reading »
On Sunday, January 5, 2014 the Teaching, Learning and Technology Center upgraded Blackboard Learn to Service Pack 10/11, which will provide you with a more user friendly experience and up-to-date features. Many existing features have been improved and some exciting… Continue Reading »
This morning around 10AM Level3, the University’s Internet Service Provider (ISP), began experiencing a regional “degradation of service” due to equipment failure in its NYC data center. As a result, the University experienced a complete Internet outage from approximately 10:00… Continue Reading »
This afternoon at approximately 4:30 PM a vendor performing a routine upgrade to the network load balancer inadvertently disconnected the PirateNet (Banner Luminus) servers from the campus network. The “crash protection” page providing links to email, Blackboard and Banner Self… Continue Reading »
Each year University IT Services schedules major systems upgrades and maintenance in early August. Most systems downtime is scheduled between the end of the summer session at the main campus and the start of orientation at the Law School. University… Continue Reading »
The Storage Area Network (SAN) in the University’s data center in Corrigan Hall experienced a hardware failure on Friday, April 12. This resulted in two system outages, the first on Friday, April 12, at 10:30 PM and the second earlier… Continue Reading »
YouTube has grown to be one of the largest collections of educational material available on the web. Videos can be utilized to spark a discussion, demonstrate an activity, review foundational materials, or highlight current events. From within a Blackboard Content… Continue Reading »
PirateNet was offline this afternoon beginning around 2:15 PM due to technical problems. When services were taking longer than expected to restore, the Web Services team around 3:00 PM implemented the “crash protection” site, providing direct links to key services,… Continue Reading »