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Dear Faculty and Staff, The celebration of this year’s 11th Annual Faculty Institute will take place on May 17-18 2012, on the Pleasantville Campus. The theme of this year’s Institute will be “The DNA of Pace University: Collaboration and Innovation.” The primary purpose of the Faculty Institute is to promote collaboration and create partnerships among [...]

We are writing to you to inform you of some upcoming changes to Blackboard that will be implemented in the next couple of weeks. On May 21, 2012, from 4:00 AM – 4:00 PM the Blackboard servers will be taken offline in order to install a new service pack upgrade. The upgrade will not affect [...]

Here at Pace CTLT we are preparing for Blackboard Inc.’s annual conference BbWorld 2012. This year we are sending our department blogger Julio Rodriguez-Rentas. The following is a blog post from him to Blackboard, Inc. on why he would like to serve as a VIP BbWorld blogger.   Hi! My name is Julio Rodriguez-Rentas, and [...]

As we enter into the last weeks of the spring semester we here at CTLT are still planning a number of events and resources, which are listed in this newsletter to share with you. The first and most notable event to be held is the annual Faculty Institute. The Institute will be held May 17-18 on [...]

Register now at http://www.pace.edu/ctlt/events! Upcoming events: April 10th- Faculty Research Expo 163 Williams Street, Banquet Room 18th floor April 11th- New York Times Exchange Lunch, One Pace Plaza, Meeting Room A April 18th- New York Times Exchange Lunch, 100 Goldstein Academic Center, Pleasantville April 27th- Tenure and Promotion Workshop, One Pace Plaza, Meeting Room A April [...]

  Service Pack 8 for Blackboard Learn™ 9.1 is a significant update that brings new feature enhancements and improvements that produce a simpler, more effective workflow for instructors. The following is a list of upgrades included in Service Pack 8 for Blackboard Learn™ 9.1. New Default Bb Theme Course Structures Course Themes Negative Marking Automated Regrading The [...]