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Thursday, August 2, 2012

 

From: Kevin Wolff, Instructional Designer, Baruch Computing and Technology Center (BCTC)

Dear Baruch Faculty and Staff:

We hope that your summer has been going well. As we approach the fall term, we want to update you on the status of the spring 2012 course upgrade to Blackboard 9.1. The CUNY timeline for the upgrade states that the deadline for spring 2012 courses to become available in Blackboard 9.1 was approximately July 31st. However, because the spring 2012 upgrade process is taking longer than expected, CUNY now anticipates that the full migration will be completed by mid-August 2012. If you need to access your spring 2012 course before mid-August and are not finding it in Blackboard 9.1, please contact the Baruch Help Desk (helpdesk@baruch.cuny.edu) and we will work with CUNY to attempt to provide earlier access to the course.

For more information, please visit http://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/CIS/functions/bb/timeline.html.

Blackboard 9.1 Workshops and Resources

The following Blackboard 9.1 workshops are scheduled for August. For a full list of summer and fall 2012 workshops, please visit http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/bctc/training/faculty_training.html.

Introduction to Blackboard 9.1 Workshop:

Date	Time	Location
Mon, August 6th	2-3pm	VC Room TBD
Thurs, August 9th	3-4pm	VC Room TBD
Mon, August 13th	2-3pm	VC Room TBD
Wed, August 15th	6-7pm	VC Room TBD
Tues, August 21st	10-11am	VC Room TBD
Thurs, August 23rd	2-3pm	VC Room TBD
Tues, August 28th	10-11am	VC Room TBD
Wed, August 29th	2-3pm	VC Room TBD
Thurs, August 30th	6-7pm	VC Room TBD
Fri, August 31st	10-11am	VC Room TBD

Seats may be reserved in the workshops by sending an email to helpdesk@baruch.cuny.edu. Please also visit the CUNY Blackboard website at www.cuny.edu/blackboard for details about the CUNY series of webinars on selected Blackboard 9.1 topics and to access video recordings of past webinars. The site contains detailed information on the upgrade, FAQs, instructional videos and user guides.

Thank you and please feel free to contact the Baruch help desk with any questions.

Help Desk
6th floor of Library Building
Phone: 646-312-1010
E-mail: helpdesk@baruch.cuny.edu