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Overview
  Blackboard
replaced by Canvas January 1st, 2013
Blackboard, the online
Enterprise Learning Management System (ELMS) that has been used by Smith
faculty and students since 2002 and used campus-wide since 2006, is to
be replaced by Canvas starting from
January 1, 2013.
To access Canvas and for related supporting documents, go to
http://elms.umd.edu.
Old Blackboard course users (both faculty and students): You
will be able to retrieve materials from Blackboard system until
June 30, 2013 via the link provided at
http://elms.umd.edu from the small white text link at the
bottom of the menu on the left, or
http://umcp.blackboard.com. Please BE SURE to download and save any
course materials you wish to keep in your Blackboard courses.
*INSTRUCTORS:
You may collect and download a copy of your BB course files with course
structure using Content Collection in BB system,
You may make this zipped course file available for students if you or
just use it as a
resource for setting up your new Canvas course as well.
Instructors who will be teaching Winter or Spring 2013 courses:
We highly recommend you attend a Canvas Workshop.
- Office of Smith IT workshops being offered to Smith Faculty/Staff/TAs:
Getting Started with Canvas.
- Campus Division of IT workshops being offered to all campus faculty at
CSS and McKeldin,, see their workshop calendar at:
http://otal.umd.edu/calendar.
Visit
Smith IT "Eye on IT" newsfeed for the latest updates.
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Please contact Office of
Smith IT at
bbhelp@rhsmith.umd.edu for Blackboard support, and
canvas@rhsmith.umd.edu or
call us at 301-405-2269 if there are further questions.
You can also contact
campus DIT at elms@umd.edu or
301-405-1500 for additional questions.
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MORE INFO |
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Academic Schedules |
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Academic Calendar by Semester, or
by Academic Year |
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Request Quota Increases |
Instructors can
request a quota increase in Blackboard Courses or Content Collection
spaces using this ELMS Tool. |
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More Training Info |
- You'll see a How To
Blackboard Demo site when you log into Blackboard. Check it
out! Examples, links and demos of basics and more advanced ideas. See
the way other Faculty use it.
- Switch to Training tab in Blackboard system to see
more training documents provided by OIT. |
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Alert for BB System Outages |
Want to be notified in the event of an emergency? Campus OIT provides an
Alert System that you can get email
or voice mail when Blackboard or other selected system is down.
Click here to sign up. |
Users in Smith School of
Business can access Blackboard course sites at
http://bb.rhsmith.umd.edu. This
BB support website can be accessed when you click on the " Help"
button on the top of your Blackboard page.
In this
Blackboard support website maintained by Smith IT, we
provide links to some of the many ways to gather information
about using this tool. The campus OIT also provide many
other manuals and training materials that you can reach from
the "Support" tab when login to
Blackboard system.
To ensure your request has a
guaranteed reply, help us provide you with the best quality support, and help us
better track trends in support requests, please send all Blackboard related
questions to
bbhelp@rhsmith.umd.edu rather
than any individual. You can
also stop by the Smith IT helpdesk at Room 3520 Van Munching Hall, or call us at
301-405-2269 and they will direct you to the
Instructional Technology staff on duty.
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