Illinois Compass 2g: New and Enhanced Features to Facilitate Education and Collaboration

Tags: ,
IT Professionals help support faculty, students and staff that use Illinois Compass 2g in their academic units and can benefit from this poster session by learning how the system can be help facilitate teaching and learning as well as help with research, committee work, training and other endeavors. They will be able to provide guidance to existing and potential new users about the system, connect them to resources on taking advantage of enhanced features along with improved support resources._ CITES launched the Compass 2g (powered by Blackboard Learn) service in November 2011. The service’s predecessor Illinois Compass (powered by Blackboard Vista) was retired in December 2012. CITES started providing Blackboard Mobile Learn as a free app for Illinois students, faculty and staff in Fall 2012. Integrations with publishers such as McGraw Hill Connect as well as others, Compass 2g makes it easy for student to access educational resources._ We plan to provide a synopsis of the service including new features, upcoming plans as well as an overview of the technical infrastructure. We will also illustrate the diverse support resources available to faculty, students and staff to help them use the service that include help desk services, individual and group consulting, scheduled and custom training, web-based tutorials, Lynda.com as well as the Blackboard YouTube channel._ The new features and enhancements for Summer 2014 include: ? Access to test logs for instructors ? Delegated and anonymous grading ? New options for tests: availability exceptions and feedback for students ? Plagiarism detection integrated into assignments ? User interface improvements: grade center and navigation_ We will solicit input by participants on how we can improve the service to help faculty, students and staff fulfill their teaching, learning, outreach missions._ Finally we will also discuss how we engage with faculty, staff and students on a regular basis via the Compass 2g Advisory Group to help us harmonize the service with their needs.