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Instructional Technology will install four new electronic classrooms and upgrade eight others this summer.
The newly configured rooms will each include a touch panel control system, digital document camera, DVD player, VCR, and PC or Macintosh computer. The projects will increase the number of classrooms with IT’s standard configuration to 35. Work on the classrooms will be aided by the recent addition of E. J. Hudock to the IT staff. As facilities coordinator, his primary responsibility will be to help support classroom technology.
The newest version of Blackboard is also scheduled for installation this summer. Instructional Technology is working with Computing Services to make the upgrade by July 1. This will allow time for workshops and training before the fall semester.
Blackboard 6 addresses some of the most significant shortcomings of the current version. The new version will give faculty the ability to use mathematical and scientific equations, download groups of student files, use improved grade weighting, and move and copy documents previously loaded to Blackboard. More information about version 6 can be found at www.blackboard.com.