Fall 2009 Student News

Welcome Back to the Fall 2009 Semester!

Students,
Greetings to you all!  We in OLAT are excited for the new semester to begin and have a few helpful tips for you to get the new semester off to a great start:

• BlueLine Upgrade 
  • BlueLine was upgraded early this summer.  The new site is https://blueline.creighton.edu  
  • You must be using IE7 or Firefox 2.X in order to have full functionality of BlueLine.  IE8 does not function correctly; if you have installed IE8, please plan on using Firefox as a browser, or contact the OLAT service desk to have IE8 uninstalled. 
  • Along with the upgrade, cookies and cache must be cleared out of your preferred browser to prevent any errors from occurring.  Please contact the OLAT Service Desk for assistance. 
• Courses 
  • Courses will open no sooner than two working days prior the first day of class.   If you are not seeing your course after this date, please contact OLAT to ensure the course has been opened or you are enrolled. 
• Echo Lecture Capture and Audio files 
  • Please remember OLAT retains a 24 hour window from the time the lecture ends to post audio and video files for that day.  If the file is not there after the 24 hours or an error received when clicking on the link, please contact OLAT for troubleshooting.

 What’s New in Technology?

• Apreso becomes ECHO360
  • Over the summer all Apreso systems were upgraded to new ECHO 360 technology. This upgrade moved from an older computer based system to an appliance “pizza box” system with server side processing. The look and feel of the software side of the system is maintained with a few extra bells and whistles that allow for ease of use and editing. 
• New Technology Tools
  • The new Tablet computers from Fujitsu shipped with a 1.3MP WebCAM and a larger screen than previous models. The Tablets will be distributed to first year Rx, POTD, OT and PT students. Third year Rx students will receive new DELL E6400 systems along with an 8GB (2nd Generation) iPOD Touch during their refresh sessions in July and August.

What’s New in Courses?

• Schedule page 
  • Based on feedback from students, we are very excited to announce a schedule page has been incorporated in to the course site. 
  • This page will be linked from the course home page and will give the students a general overview of the course, with links to topics and assignments.
• Mentors (if applicable) 
  • We have implemented a “Mentor Nugget” on the Resources page that will include the name, contact information, faculty expectations of the mentor and brief biography. 
• Web Conferencing 
  • The incorporation of Wimba into your BlueLine course site allows for conferencing to be done within a course site, creating an environment for both faculty and students to collaborate in without having to set up individual sessions.  
  • Wimba is an intuitive interface that is easy to transition in to and is able to include video of the participants. 

OLAT  will be here gearing up for a smooth start to the fall semester.  Please do let us know if you have any questions!

Contact Information:

Office of eLearning and Academic Technologies

Closed on weekends and observes the Campus holiday schedule

Email: olat@creighton.edu
1.800.325.2830 option 4