Campus News
Fall 2022 Blackboard Course Shells
Fall 2022 Blackboard course shell will be available to instructors after 9:30 p.m. on July 22 (one month before the Fall 2022 semester begins).
Students will have access to their courses after 9:30 p.m. on August 8.
Course Merge for Fall 2022 New!
To merge courses, please fill in the form and email it as an attachment to Tstickets@morrisville.edu and cc Yunkai at xuy@morrisvill.edu.
Due to the FERPA concerns, after the courses are merged, the course tools: Course Messages, Email, and Roster will be closed. “FERPA prohibits disclosing the identities of students through an LMS to students in another class. The disclosure prohibition would not apply where merged courses are actually the same class, meeting at the same time, and in the same classroom (if there is a classroom component) but happened to be assigned different course numbers or names in the college catalogue or class schedule.” (Dave Stolier, 2017). If Discussion Board, Blog, Wiki, or Journal is needed in the merged course, all students should be grouped by sections, and students only are allowed to use these tools in the Group.
If you have further questions on course merge, please contact Yunkai at xuy@morrisville.edu.
Brightspace Update
According to the peer institutions’ feedback on the Brightspace migration, their instructors encounter issues after they import their Blackboard tests and grade center to Brightspace. It is highly recommended for instructors to play with the Brightspace sandbox to check whether your courses will encounter these issues in future migration. Here is the guideline on how to import a Blackboard course to Brightspace. There is no set a date for when the sandbox will be decommissioned.
If you have further questions on Brightspace, please email Yunkai Xu at xuy@morrisville.edu.
Fall 2022 Course Syllabus Template
The new fall 2022 course syllabus template is available to all instructors.
Please download syllabus template if you need it.
Updates compared to Spring 2022:
- Change the semester schedule
- Add the website links of accessibility services, tutoring, and bias response in the school-wide policies section.
- Delete the COVID policy
Professional Development Events and Resources
Online Teaching: Technology & Educational Resources
Data: July 25-28
The SUNY Center for Professional Development (CPD) OTTER Institute is a free opportunity for online practitioners to see examples of best practices for course design and delivery within Brightspace. Learn about the tools and features within Brightspace that will help you create and deliver effective and engaging digital course content.
Topics to be covered in this Brightspace Edition of OTTER include:
- Design Considerations
- Brightspace Document Templates
- Getting Started Module
- FAQs & Glossary
- Rubrics
- Groups
- Discussions
- Assignments
- Quizzes
- Pulse App
- IM & Email
- Attendance & Checklists
- Awards/Certificates