Academic Technology @ Smith IT

Smith IT provides supports for many academic technology services for students, faculty and staff.  The main support areas are:

ELMS - Blackboard

January 1, 2013 campus is moving away from using Blackboard and adopting Canvas by Instructure

For Fall 2012, only a handful of courses will be piloted in Canvas.  Everyone else will continue to use Blackboard. Go to our Blackboard web pages for links to documentation and other news and information.  Any questions can continue to be sent to our BB support team at bbhelp@rhsmith.umd.edu

For updated information about the move to Canvas, see http://ng.elms.umd.edu/ or http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/smithit/canvas/  Questions can be sent to the SmithIT Canvas support team at canvas@rhsmith.umd.edu, or the campus team at elms@umd.edu

SmithApps (used to be MySmith in the MyUM portal)

Access the software applications our faculty have requested for Business School classes from virtually anywhere with internet access.  If you have file space on Smith network drives K: and/or O: you may access files there from SmithApps as well. Log in with your Directory login account.  Login Here.

Labs and Classrooms

Where are they, what hours are they open, what hardware and software are there?  Not only VMH info, but links to Satellite info are here too.

Want to host your own Webinar? 

Campus has made Adobe Connect, a web conferencing tool, available to all Faculty and Staff.  They are in the process of integrating it into Canvas for student use as well.  See http://otal.umd.edu/adobeconnect for more information.   

If you or your participants need tech support in addition to documentation at the site mentioned above, please tell them they can call 1-800-422-3623. http://otal.umd.edu/adobeconnect includes documentation video tutorials, training and email contact info.

If you need help with the cameras and mics in VMH classrooms, please fill out an AV Request form 24 hours in advance of your webinar.  

Classroom Response Devices - or "Clickers"

Many of our faculty use them regularly for polling, quizzing, or engaging students.  The Office of Smith IT can help Business School faculty get started if they're interested in using this technology for an entire semester or just a class or two.  

Web pages with information about using clickers, our loaner program and other help.

Need Free Images for Your Presentations?  try these:

Getting Started with LinkedIn

Some classes are choosing to use LinkedIn groups. To create a LinkedIn account, go to www.linkedin.com, click on the "Join Now" button, and follow the steps to create an account. 

Please see the Creating and Managing Groups document for information on getting started with Groups in LinkedIn.

To learn more about using LinkedIn, visit http://learn.linkedin.com/