Triton College Has an App!

Triton College is making Blackboard Mobile Learn available for all Students and Faculty. Now, much of the core content of your Blackboard courses will automatically be available from your mobile device on the free Blackboard Mobile Learn App.

What does this mean for Faculty?

Using the same Blackboard Learn platform you already use to manage your courses, you can quickly and easily disseminate information to your students via their primary means of communication.

Updates that you make to courses loaded onto the Blackboard Learn platform, whether via your computer or your mobile device, will seamlessly sync with the content in the Blackboard Mobile Learn application.

You can now meet the needs and expectations of millennial and non-traditional students, who want to be able to do EVERYTHING on their mobile devices.  The Blackboard Mobile Learn application is available on the following networks and devices:

• Android™ devices
• BlackBerry® smartphone devices
• HP webOS devices
• iPhone®, iPod touch®, and iPad™

DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS
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1. Visit the:
   
   • App Store on your iPhone®,iPad™,or iPod touch®
   • Android Marketplace™ on your Android device
   • BlackBerry App World® on your BlackBerry® smartphone device
   • Palm App Catalog on your HP webOS device
2. Search for “Blackboard Mobile Learn”.
3. Install the app.
4. Search for your institution
5. Login to Mobile Learn with your personal credentials.

Questions? Please contact our CTE department at mzicher@triton.edu or ext. 3269 for further assistance or visit Blackboard.com/Mobile for more information.

Click here to see a demo of the software on the different platforms.

Announcing Smart Notebook Version 11!

With the installation of ten new Smart Boards on campus, we have begun to upgrade our Smart Notebook software to version 11.

What are the differences between Smart Notebook Version 11 and the Notebook software running on the previously existing Smart Boards?

• New Toolbar: The most obvious difference will be a new toolbar at the top of the Board.  Buttons are now organized into panels, and clicking on a button will open an additional panel that will allow you to better format the tool that you have selected.
• Internet Browser:  You will be able to insert an Internet browser into your saved notebook files to display websites and manipulate them like you would any other object.
• New Digital Ink Features:  New custom creative pens are available, you can fill closed areas drawn with digital ink, and you can set “Magic Pen” digital ink to fade after a specified time
• New Text Editor:  Version 11 comes with an improved text editor, allowing greater flexibility when formatting text
• New Object Manipulation Features: Resize a picture to fit properly inside an object, group and ungroup objects with a “group” motion on the screen, and record sounds for specific objects.

For more information, watch the following video about Smart Notebook Version 11:




This video provides additional information about the new Toolbar: