Welcome to Digital Campus

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Welcome to Digital Campus!
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Digital Campus, Who Are We?

• Resource group to provide faculty support in
  developing and teaching with Web-based courses

• Staffed with

• Instructional Design/Training Group (31 staff)

• Tech.Support Group (11 staff)

• Production Group (1010 student assts.)

• Admin. Support (11) and Executive Director

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Services Provided

• Blackboard system admin

• Faculty training

• Training orientations for students

• Production support

• Converting notes into .ppt, .pdf, .html format

• Creating graphics

• Digitizing and streaming audio video files

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From nothing in Dec. 2000 to
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Student Survey Resultstaken in May/June 2002
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Where Do You Access Blackboard Most Frequently?
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How many courses are you taking this semester?
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How Often Do You Access Your Courses Through
Blackboard?
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Which of the following Bb features has a positive
impact on your level or amount of learning?
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What Do You Like The Most About Using Blackboard?

• Constant Availability

• Convenient, easy to use

• Easy to access class info

• The convenience of having it available
  whenever I need information, or help

• I like the instructor announcements and the
  grade postings

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What Do You Like The Least About Using
Blackboard?

• Nothing Whatsoever! Why Cant All My Courses Be
  In Blackboard?

• Figuring out how to use it for the first time

• I dont always have internet access

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Will you take a Bb course again?

• Yes 87

• No 12

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Faculty Training forCourse Development
Management

• Course Building Workshops
• One full-day or two half-day sessions
• Build course contents during sessions

• Advanced Topics Workshops
• Communications Tools
• Quiz Building Grade Book Management

• Summer Institute Workshops with Stipends
• Weeklong intensive hands-on Faculty e-Camps

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49 Faculty earned Bb Drivers License and 500
this summer
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Quality Assurance

• Web-assisted Courses
• Announcements, Syllabus, Faculty info., Course
  outline

• Web-enhanced Courses (Supplemental to
  in- classroom teaching)

• Web-based Courses (Completely online without
  in-classroom seat requirement)
• Policy and Standards for Online Courses

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Internal External Grants

• Provosts Summer Stipends in 2001 2002

• Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grants, 30,000

• Title V Grants from Dept. of Ed., 5,000,000

• Individual Grant to support faculty course
  development
• Digital Campus Fellows
• Course Development Stipends
• Note-takers
• Online Tutors for Students

• Collaborative Grant with a community college
• Collaboration to offer online degrees in Nursing
  Teacher Ed.

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What else do we do?

• Faculty hand-holding

• We do make office visits!
• We offer online courses to students overseas
• Digital Campus Abroad

• Assistance to students
• Help Desk (7 a.m. 1200 p.m.)
• Blackboard Training CD
• Blackboard Clinic in the Student Union

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University Tech Plan in Place

• Smart Classroom
• Free Faculty Laptop Lease
• 1/3 leased in June 2002 1/3 in Nov. 2002 1/3 in
  2003
• Student Laptop Lease
• Wireless Networked Campus

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Now Meet the Digital Campus Team!

• And visit our Website
• http//www.csufresno.edu/digitalcampus