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Global E-mails
There has been a lot of
discussion recently regarding mass e-mails.
For administrative offices that are sending
general interest University global e-mails,
please include the following information.
Indicate who is receiving
this e-mail.
Indicate who is the responsible sender
of the e-mail.
If you need assistance
in obtaining the targeted list, please contact
the Helpdesk. Also, we'd like to have more
feedback from our University community regarding
whether you want to receive e-mails. Please
send e-mail to nancy@shsu.edu
if you'd like to voice your opinion.
Faculty Machine Upgrades
The upgrade of faculty
machines has now begun. We are going right
down our list and any faculty member with
a machine less than a Celeron 466 will be
getting a new machine. There is no time
frame on this and it will be a continuous
process.
 New
Staff
Pete Licce joined Computer
Services as a full time staff member on
Oct 16th. He is a Computer Systems
Technician. His main responsibility is inventory
control. Pete has worked for Computer services
for 2 years as a student, and his major
is Computer Science.
Blackboard
Beta testing will begin
in early November for Blackboard 5.6. We
will be contacting instructors individually
about participation in the beta program.
Computer Services will be hosting an On-line
Gradebook session for Blackboard, November
19th at 2pm in AB1 215. This session is
for those who have never used Blackboard's
gradebook, to those who are currently employing
the on-line gradebook. This month's Blackboard
Users Group meeting will be Tuesday, November
13th at 3:30 in Austin Hall. Take this opportunity
to learn from your colleagues who have already
mastered the online process. It's also a
good chance to give input to our technical
BB administrators.
Security
Remember to scan floppy
disks with our virus utility before using
them in your SHSU computer. We scan email
and the T: drive but some email attachments
and floppy disks are large sources of infection.
Faculty may want to consider
requiring students to scan the disk and
make a print out of the results when turning
in assignments. (note currently the full
version (not just "scan A:") must
be used to have the print results option.)
Training
The monthly training
calendar is posted. Check out the calendar
and enroll
in a course. A new class is being offered
for current Blackboard Instructors and folks
just interested in what Blackboard can do.
This class will demonstrate the use of the
On-line Gradebook in Blackboard.
Participants will learn the ins and outs
of how to best manage your students' grades
on-line.
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