D2L Updates
September 2010
- Email announcement sent to all faculty.
- Announcement posted to BeachBoard Announcements' area.
November 2010
- Begin converting individual Blackboard courses to D2L for spring 2011 pilot instructors.
- Upload and customize help pages for instructors.
- Finalize the Peoplesoft integration with stakeholders including CCPE and ITS.
- Activate Turnitin integration.
- Begin Elluminate activation and integration process.
- Work with D2L to bulk convert large amounts of Blackboard courses.
- Work closely with CCPE to support non-credit courses.
- Begin to create training documentation and courses for January 2011.
- Information presentation to Senate Exec.
- Announcement distributed via Provost's Weekly Message.
- Information presentation per request of ASI Senate.
- Information presentation to department coordinators via Bookstore luncheon.
December 2010
- Continue converting individual Blackboard courses to D2L for spring 2011 pilot instructors.
- Begin training spring pilot instructors
- Upload and customize help pages for students.
- Finalize the Peoplesoft integration
- Turnitin activated.
- Elluminate activated.
- Continue to convert large amounts of Blackboard courses.
- Create training documentation and courses January 2011.
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January 2011
- Individual courses have been converted to D2L for the spring 2011 pilot instructors.
- Continue to train spring pilot instructors.
- Tweak help pages for instructors and students.
- The integration with Peoplesoft is finalized.
- Turnitin activated.
- Elluminate activated.
- Continue to convert large amounts of Blackboard courses.
- Provide CCPE sys admin training.
- FCPD Winter Institute for Teaching and Learning (WITL) training kick-off.
- Tech Tuesday training workshops scheduled and posted for spring 2011.
- Training workshop delivered to Kinesiology lecturers upon request.
- Training schedule announcement via Provost's Weekly Message.
February 2011
- Tech Tuesdays training workshops continue.
- Tweaking instructor and student help pages.
- Training message in Provost's Wednesday Weekly.
- Continue to convert large amounts of Blackboard courses.
- Plan move to Technology Center in AS 120.
- Creating training quick guides for workshops.
- Develop eportfolio training and guides.
- Complete student and instructor eportfolio help pages.
- Develop CCPE user and course integration.
- Troubleshoot pilot user issues.
- Continue training help desk.
- Plan for the migration of Blackboard organizations.
- Training schedule announcement via Provost's Weekly Message.
- Information presentation to Staff Council.
- Training workshop delivered to Kinesiology full-time instructors upon request.
- ePortfolio planning and training for MBA program.
March 2011
- Tech Tuesdays training workshops continue.
- Tweak help pages for instructors and students.
- Course conversion completed.
- Distribute the New BeachBoard Coming Summer 2011 flyer to all instructors.
- Set up & move to Technology Center in AS 120 with user access to:
- Help Desk
- eLearning Consultants
- Tech Squad
- Tech Bar
- Multimedia Services
- Scantron machines
- Instructional Technology Support Services
April 2011
May 2011
- Go live on the new BeachBoard!
- Continue to provide workshops and one-on-one training for instructors.
- Pulling Blackboard archives of spring 2011 courses. Ship hard drive to Blackboard then to D2L.
- D2L imports Blackboard courses to our server. Our sys admin imports course content into course shells.
- Continue to work on instructor and student help files.
- Continue to create Show Me videos to compliment the help files.
- Import auto-created organizations' content into D2L.
- Requests to move manually-created organizations pour in.
June 2011
- Continue to process requests to move manually-created organizations.
- Instructor training in AS 120 continues.
- Provost's Weekly message announcing the D2L launch for all summer courses.
- Instructor and student help files expand to include web, print, PDF, and video options.
- Continue to create "Show Me" videos to complement the online help files.
- Blackboard contract ends June 30, 2011.
July 2011
- Non-production Blackboard contract begins. Students and faculty will need to contact itss@csulb.edu in order to access the old BeachBoard for grade disputes and incompletes.
- Training for the help desk and tech squad students refined to advanced levels.
- Instructor training workshops and drop-ins continue in AS 120.
- Continue to work on instructor and student help files.
- Continue to create Show Me videos to compliment the help files.
- Most manually-created organizations have been migrated to D2L.
- Tweak the Peoplesoft - D2L integration files to accommodate course creation dates.
- Create fall 2011 courses via Peoplesoft integration. Test for data integration.
August 2011
- BeachBoard Bootcamp for instructors takes place for two weeks.
- Facilitate instructor show case presentations from spring 2011 pilot instructors.
- Continue to work on instructor and student help files.
- Continue to create Show Me videos to compliment the help files.
- Update help pages based on instructor feedback.
- Complete Quick Start guide development.
- Most manually-created organizations have been migrated to D2L.
- Verify Peoplesoft integration
- CSULB is 100% live on D2L.
