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Hi everybody, I hope summer is treating you well. As you know by now, your fall online courses will be delivered on the new Blackboard Learn system. I
wanted to share with you some of the information on Blackboard Learn. Did you know that on Blackboard Learn you can send email to your
students at their external email accounts, so at their gmail and yahoo accounts, for example. Also you can reorder items in a list so easily by just
dragging and dropping items in the list in Blackboard Learn. Makes it really easy to move things. And those dropped students in your Grade
Book? Guess what? In Blackboard Learn they won't appear in your Grade Book. So those are just a few of fun things that you're going to see once
you get your course transitioned and ready to go on Blackboard Learn.
My name is Katie Palacios and I'm here to help you with that transition. There are two things that you need to do to get started with that transition. Let me
show you. The first one is submitting the Master Course Migration Form. When you are on our website and you click on Faculty, you'll see a link to
the Master Course Migration Form. Please submit that form if you haven't already and that will transfer your content from Vista to Learn. The second thing
that you can do is to go to our Faculty Training page. You'll see a training schedule of all the trainings that we're going to be holding for
Blackboard Learn. Please sign up for one of those training sessions if you haven't already.
By the way, you can already login to Blackboard Learn, and you’ll already find your fall shells are there. If you login to the system
(sdccd.blackboard.com) with your CSID number and password changeme (all lowercase, all one word) then you'll have access to your shells on the
system. You’ll quickly find, however, that your fall shells do not contain your content. On the new system, you can easily copy content from one shell
to another. That is what we will help you do in our training session, so that you can get that content that you want from your Master shell into your fall
live shell which, as I mentioned is already up and ready for you to login to. We'll show you how to get your content in the fall shell by coming to one of
our training sessions, or, on our website, there is a link on that same page to that tutorial. How to copy the content from your Master into your template
shell. Okay? So please get that Master Course Migration Form submitted if you haven't already. And signup for training. I really look forward to
helping you get ready for your fall courses online on Blackboard Learn. Thanks.