Drew Glover, SAU's new Director of Online Learning
Drew Glover visited both Honors Seminar classes today to discuss Blackboard, the course management system. Several honors students are already using Blackboard in online and in face-to-face classes and none (thankfully) are reporting any problems.
Glover provided some hints about Blackboard including composing long answers outside of Blackboard (e.g., on Word, Google Docs, or Pages) so as to avoid Blackboard's built in timer. It times out at 40 minutes and work cannot be recovered. Using those other applications also provides a backup file outside of Blackboard.
He also recommended taking screen shots or digital pictures when encountering problems. SAU pays for 24-7 support, so he showed how to access that.
He invited students to visit his office in Nelson 220 anytime if they had questions or problems.
Here's an Honors College welcome to Drew! Hopefully, we won't need your services to often :-)
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