Blackboard Collaborate

Jul 14, 2014

Blackboard Collaborate to be Upgraded August 1

On August 1, DELTA will release an upgraded version of Blackboard Collaborate through WolfWare (collaborate.wolfware.ncsu.edu). 

Jun 24, 2014

Register now for Summer Shorts in Instructional Technologies!(Archive)

Interested in developing your online teaching? Join DELTA for this year’s Summer Shorts in Instructional Technologies! 

Jun 20, 2014

Sharpening Our Tools: Improving NC State’s Enterprise Learning Technologies

At DELTA, we are almost always upgrading something—a learning management system (LMS), tool, plug-in, or some piece of our extensive enterprise learning technologies. If we’re not actively upgrading, we’re planning an upgrade. It’s enough to make a user wonder, why all the changes? When it comes to learning technologies, our guiding philosophy is to meet… 

Jun 11, 2014

LMS Updates: Spring 2014

We are always working to improve the performance, usability and robustness of our learning management system (LMS) Tools. Here is a summary of work performed during the spring 2014 semester. January 2014 Updated WolfWare servers to WolfWare 2 Updated Moodle NCSU Book to check legacy files before eliminating pluginfile (same as Moodle book). Moodle subqueries… 

May 20, 2014

Moodle News: May 2014

As part of DELTA’s ongoing efforts to keep you informed, here’s the latest Moodle News to help you make the most effective use of Moodle in your courses. Moodle Upgrade We have upgraded Moodle to version 2.6, which applies to both courses and project spaces. For the most part, this a small upgrade focused on… 

May 7, 2014

May 2014 Maintenance for WolfWare

As the spring 2014 semester winds down, we have a long maintenance window coming up. From May 9-16 we will be upgrading, updating and patching our learning technologies within WolfWare. To help you plan around service outages, here is our anticipated timeline for when we will be servicing the various technologies we provide: May 9:… 

May 2, 2014

Register for DELTA’s Summer Workshops and Seminars!(Archive)

Looking to improve your instructional technology and online teaching skills? Join us for our summer workshops and seminars, where we’ll explore the various learning technologies available at NC State. Topics include: creating instructional videos with My Mediasite building your online course with Moodle flipping your course conducting engaging synchronous online sessions with Collaborate For a complete… 

Mar 14, 2014

Moodle News: March 2014

As part of DELTA’s ongoing efforts to keep you informed, here’s the latest Moodle News to help you make the most effective use of Moodle in your courses. Moodle Upgrade Moodle 2.6 is now available for you to begin preparing summer and fall courses. Expect to see only minor changes in the Moodle user interface,… 

Mar 3, 2014

Collaborate: March 2014 Upgrade

During the Spring Break maintenance window, DELTA is upgrading Blackboard Collaborate to version 12.5.4, resulting in the following improvements: changes to resolve the problems people have experienced launching sessions, initiated by the recent Java upgrade. a functioning “guest link” in Moodle, enabling instructors to invite guests–both from NC State and outside the university–to their Blackboard Collaborate… 

Oct 24, 2013

DELTA Plays a Hand in ‘Preparing the Professoriate’

DELTA’s Instructional Support Services recently participated alongside representatives from the NC State Libraries and Office of Information Technology in a technology expo fair, presented by The Graduate School and hosted in Hunt Library. With the goal of providing Preparing the Professoriate (PTP) doctoral students an opportunity to experience technologies they may soon use in instructor roles,…