Current UAB IT and Student Initiatives

  • UAB Mobile
  • Blackboard Learn Mobile

Blackboard Availability*

  • 2012  YTD   99.95%
  • January   100%
  • February  100%
  • March    99.798%
  • April 100%
     
  • 2011   99.97%
  • 2010   99.86%
  • 2009   99.89%

*excludes scheduled maintenance

Blackboard Utilization

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GOAL:

Provide consistent, accessible, personalized and collaborative environments to enhance the student experience. 

OBJECTIVES:

Develop a student network, hardware and software strategy.
    1. Monitor network usage and proactively forecast and deploy wireless access points as needed.
    2. Enhance the self-service method for restoring service for quarantined computers.
    3. Support software initiatives to ensure student success.
    4. Create a student multimedia center.
    5. Explore options for expanding technological solutions available to students.

Develop a student mobile learning strategy that blends with the overall UAB mobile strategy.

    1. Implement mobile applications for the learning management and student information systems.
    2. Expand mobile-enables websites.
    3. Develop custom applications that address UAB student needs.

Promote student awareness about information security and privacy, appropriate use of the UAB network, IT services and campus safety initiatives.

    1. Attend student orientation sessions, provide informational websites, and host a cybersecurity awareness month.
    2. Support enhancements to UAB's Emergency Management Notification system.
    3. Solicit feedback from students regarding UAB IT services.
    4. Improve communications of appropriate use of the UAB network and enhance the self-service method of restoring service.
    5. Increase awareness and utilization of UAB IT services including the software licensing program.
Resources for Students:

Access Request Forms
AskIT (The UAB IT Help Desk)
Blackboard Login
Blackboard Support
BlazerID Central 
BlazerNET
Classroom Technology
Computer Hardware

Computing Stations (Labs)
Drop Box
Digital Copyright Compliance / HEOA
Dorm Internet Access
Email (Web Access) 
Gartner Research
Help Desk - AskIT
Online Classroom
Password Reset
Policies - IT Related
Software
Teaching and Learning
UAB Mobile
Wireless Network