Over the winter break a new tab appeared in Blackboard, Academic Resources. The purpose of this tab was to provide a place for many of the modules that have been crowding the My Wentworth page in Blackboard where users could easily find them. When Wentworth migrated to Blackboard Managed Hosting from UMass Online, we licensed Blackboard’s Community System. This tool allows us to customize the interface with additional tabs which we can use for any number of purposes but which we’ve decided to leverage to sort out the confusing mix of items on the My Wentworth page.

The new Academic Resources tab has information targeting students  such as the Academic Calendar (important dates), Tutoring schedules and appointments for the Center for Academic Excellence, as well as the Library Twitter feed and Library Search information. College of Professional and Continuing Education students have a subtab with resources specific to that population.

Over the next few months, modules on the My Wentworth page may migrate to other tabs.  In addition, with more real estate on the new tabs, we can add additional resources and information. For example, on the My Wentworth Tab there is a subtab, Support Resources. On this tab we have modules that receive the status feeds from several of our tools. If you are experiencing a problem with Turnitin you can check the support feed to see if they are experiencing problems. There are currently feeds for Blackboard Managed Hosting, Turnitin, WileyPlus, and the Twitter feed from DTS. We also have the contact information for support here as well as information about the context sensitive help system in Blackboard.

As we add tabs, we will begin to curate what modules belong on which tab and the content will shift. We will not be removing resources, only moving them to make it easier to find specific item.

Tell us what you think and let us know what resources are missing by sending us an email at lit@wit.edu.