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BlazeVIEW: Why You’ll Love Your V8!
Coming Summer 2009
Overview—What’s new?! BlazeVIEW!
A New Name.
When VSU transitions to Blackboard Vista Version 8 in June 2009, our online course management system formerly called WebCT Vista will be now be called BlazeVIEW.
This name change follows the naming convention used by the Board of Regents, other USG schools, and the USG Online Support Center.
It will take some time to update all the documentation and get used to the new name, but in the long run it will benefit users. This name transition will provide a name that can stay the same no matter what online course management system is used in the future!
BlazeVIEW to Go Newsletter
Click below to download the lastest version of the BlazeVIEW to Go newsletter.
Improvements and new features:
- Blogging and Journaling features will expand the use of the discussion tool allowing instructors to easily customize areas for dialoging with students.
- New self and peer review features enable students to review and grade their own assessments and review work submitted by peers using specific criteria set forth by the instructor via Grading Forms (rubrics).
- Grade book has an easier and more efficient navigation with the ability to perform various grading tasks from one central grid. A new smart view feature allows customized views filtered by groups and course sections, and letter and numeric grades can now be displayed simultaneously.
- New content migration features enable faculty to easily move content from section to section to update courses for a new semester.
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