Category: Announcements

End of Semester Checklist

Post author By ajb40
Post date December 9, 2010

Can you believe that the it’s almost the end of the semester? Here is a checklist to help you complete some end-of-semester tasks in Springboard –

Calculate Final Grades – Ensure that final grades are up-to-date and released to your students.
Export Gradebook Copy – Save a copy of your gradebook for backup purposes.
Compile Discussion – Export a copy of a discussion topic for archival purposes or to grade offline.
Copy Course Components – Migrate course materials to your Spring 2011 courses.

For additional assistance, please contact the ZipSupport Center at 330.972.6888 or by email at support@uakron.edu.

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D2L: Fusion

Post author By jhb13
Post date December 1, 2010

Did you know that Desire2Learn is looking for presenters for their annual Fusion Conference? Desire2Learn is the company behind the online learning platform we use at the University of Akron, Springboard. Fusion is an annual users conference, held in July, where Desire2Learn users from around the world come to discus the online learning platform. Fusion 2011 will be held July 10th through 15th in Denver, Colorado. Fusion is looking for proposals of presenters for the next conference right now. The final deadline to submit a proposal is December 22nd.

If interested in Fusion, select this link.

If interested in submitting a proposal, select this link.

Jacob Bane
Graduate Assistant Design and Development Services

Tags D2L

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Instructors – Combining Courses

Post author By ajb40
Post date November 30, 2010

With the holidays fast approaching, the Spring 2011 semester will be upon us before we know it! Instructors – now would be a great time to request that your Spring 2011 courses be combined. You can request that your courses be combined by sending an email to springboardhelp@uakron.edu. Please be sure to include the course number (1234:567-890, for example) for each course that you would like to have combined.

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D2L2Go: Features

Post author By jhb13
Post date November 23, 2010

Desire2Learn recently updated their mobile viewing experience to D2L2Go. In order to access the new features, login to Springboard from your mobile device. Supported mobile devices include: iphone, itouch, android, and blackberry. A welcome message, events and news can be seen from the main screen. A list of available courses can be found in the dropdown menu at the top of the page and more advanced features can be accessed through the tools button (). The tools menu offers access to the content, news, bookmarks, grades, and calendar tools.

With the content tool, course content can now be accessed anytime, anywhere. Content can also be bookmarked to read later on.

The grades tool allows constant access to course grades.

The news tool allows for constant access to course announcements. Such as class cancelations or the opening of a quiz.

Why not use the new tools offered by D2L2Go today?

Jacob Bane
Graduate Assistant Design and Development Services

Tags D2L2Go, Mobile

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D2L2Go Demonstration (Video)

Post author By jhb13
Post date November 22, 2010

Did you know Springboard is now easier to access from your mobile device? Desire2Learn recently updated their mobile viewing experience to D2L2Go. In order to access the new features, login to Springboard from your mobile device. Supported mobile devices include: iphone, itouch, android, and blackberry. Select the link below to view a quick video demonstration of D2L2Go.

D2L2Go Demonstration

Jacob Bane
Graduate Assistant Design and Development Services

Tags D2L2Go, Mobile

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D2L2Go

Post author By jhb13
Post date November 17, 2010

Did you know Springboard is now easier to access from your mobile device? Desire2Learn recently updated their mobile viewing experience to D2L2Go. In order to access the new features, login to Springboard from your mobile device. Supported mobile devices include: iphone, itouch, android devices, and blackberry devices. The login page remains the same, yet once in the program, the interface has been updated for ease of use.

A welcome message, events and news can be seen from the main screen. A list of available courses can be found in the dropdown menu at the top of the page and more advanced features can be accessed through the tools button ().

The tools menu offers access to the content, news, bookmarks, grades, and calendar tools.

Why not use the new tools offered by D2L2Go today?

In future posts, I will look more in depth at some of the features of D2L2Go.

Jacob Bane
Graduate Assistant Design and Development Services

Tags D2L2Go, Mobile

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Upgrade Complete

Post author By Wendy Lampner
Post date November 7, 2010

The Springboard upgrade is complete. Please report any problems to springboardhelp@uakron.edu.

Tags announcement

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Springboard Unavailable Sunday Morning

Post author By ajb40
Post date November 1, 2010

On Sunday, November 7, we will be performing minor maintenance on Springboard. This maintenance includes several bug fixes and minor product enhancements, including the following:

Desire2Learn2Go – access Content, News, Bookmarks, Grades, and Calendar tools from your iPhone, Blackberry, or Android smartphone.
Option to subscribe to email notifications for Discussions.
Accessibility improvements in My Courses widget and Quizzes.
Notification area message improvements – “Saved Successfully” and other status messages appear in lower right-hand corner of the screen.
Insert Stuff – easily embed media, such as YouTube or Flickr videos.

In order to perform this maintenance, Springboard will be unavailable for approximately 4 hours beginning at 8 am on Sunday, November 7. We will post more details here on the Springboard blog when the maintenance is complete.

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Spring 2011 Courses Now Available!

Post author By ajb40
Post date October 29, 2010

Courses for Spring 2011 have been brought in to Springboard. Instructors – now would be a great time to request that your Spring courses be combined! You can request course combinations by sending an email to springboardhelp@uakron.edu. Please be sure to include the course number (1234:567-890, for example) for each course that you would like to have combined.

Tags combine_courses, merge, spring_2011

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Faculty Springboard Survey Closes Friday

Post author By ajb40
Post date October 19, 2010

The faculty survey for Springboard closes end of day Friday, October 22. If you haven’t already, please take a few moments to share your thoughts on Springboard training, support, communication, and Springboard in general. The survey can be accessed here: https://survey2.uakron.edu/sbfacultyfall2010.aspx. For those that have responded, we appreciate your feedback!