{"id":276,"date":"2010-08-08T13:36:43","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T19:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vanderbilt.edu\/oak\/?p=46"},"modified":"2010-08-08T13:36:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T19:36:43","slug":"getting-ready-for-fall-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/2010\/08\/08\/getting-ready-for-fall-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Ready for Fall 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Getting to Know the New OAK. <\/strong> There are some significant changes to OAK and several new features. Instructors are encouraged to download the \u201cGetting to Know Blackboard 9.1\u201d guide with screenshots of the new course menus and control panel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moving Course Material: Course Export vs. Course Copy.<\/strong> When copying content from one course to another, the \u201cCourse Export\u201d function is preferred over \u201cCourse Copy.\u201d\u00a0 Using \u201cCourse Export\u201d will allow instructors to keep an archive of the course on their computer and will aid in a more complete course copy as courses become larger.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Making a Course Available.<\/strong> Before students can access a course, instructors must make it \u201cAvailable.\u201d\u00a0 \u201cUnavailable\u201d courses can only be accessed by Course Instructors, Teaching Assistants, and Course Builders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Finding News and Information.<\/strong> The OAK website was redesigned this summer to highlight\u00a0 news and information, bring out important dates, find help, and get training on-demand. Bookmarking the website to use as a login for OAK, or visiting often, is highly recommended.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/oak\/\">Visit the OAK website (link)<\/a><br \/>\n\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/oak\/training.php\">Visit the OAK Training page (link)<\/a><br \/>\n\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/oak\/training\/docs\/OAK-InstructorReferenceDocument.pdf\">Download \u201cGetting to Know Blackboard 9.1\u201d guide with menu printout pages (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\n\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/oak\/training\/docs\/OAK-CourseExportImport.pdf\">Download \u201cCourse Export \/ Package Import\u201d (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\n\u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/oak\/training\/docs\/OAK-CourseAvailable.pdf\">Download &#8220;Make Your Course Available&#8221; (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to bookmark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/oak\">www.vanderbilt.edu\/oak<\/a> or visit often to get news, updates, and alerts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting to Know the New OAK. There are some significant changes to OAK and several new features. Instructors are encouraged to download the \u201cGetting to Know Blackboard 9.1\u201d guide with screenshots of the new course menus and control panel. Moving Course Material: Course Export vs. Course Copy. When copying content from one course to another, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","ACF":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/brightspace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}