Program

Description

Contact Person

Blackboard Learn

Robert Davis

Chris Gonnella

Blackboard Ally

Blackboard Ally is a revolutionary product that integrates seamlessly into the Learning Management System and focuses on making digital content more accessible by providing students with alternative formats to easily download in each course.

Chris Gonnella

Jeni Peterson

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is a web conferencing tool offered by NDUS. Bb Collaborate Ultra delivers an updated, easy-to-use and highly accessible, synchronous web conferencing interface enabling more collaboration choices to support your pedagogical goals.

Robert Davis

Chris Gonnella

Classroom Technologies and Networked Printers

Each classroom or lab contains instructional technologies, such as computers, projectors, and Promethean boards. Several network-shared printers are available for student use. Instructions have been provided in most of the rooms and on most of the networked printers. Feel free to contact the Service Desk for help as needed.

Dean Kostuck

Infobase Learning

Infobase, formerly Hoonuit, is an online training resource with hundreds of videos and hands-on tutorials that are available 24/7 to Mayville State students, faculty, and staff using their ConnectND credentials.

Chris Gonnella

Robert Davis

Interactive Video Network (IVN)

Some classes use internet-based, two-way interactive video to provide real-time collaboration with other students and professionals at multiple locations. The North Dakota Interactive Video Network (IVN) is a high-quality system used primarily for the delivery of courses.

MSU Service Desk

Dean Kostuck

Office 365

All employees and registered students have access to Office 365 and its components, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Skype for Business, Outlook, and SharePoint.

MSU Service Desk

Dean Kostuck

OneDrive

Microsoft cloud storage provided to all MSU students and employees. Save your files and photos to OneDrive and access them from any device, anywhere.

MSU Service Desk

Pexip

Pexip is a video conferencing service that allows users to connect with IVN classrooms using only a web browser. Users may also connect using a mobile device.

MSU Service Desk

Dean Kostuck

ProctorU

ProctorU is an online proctoring service that allows students to take exams online while ensuring the integrity of the exam for the institution by authenticating their identities and monitoring the exam in real time.

Jeni Peterson

Qualtrics

Qualtrics is an easy-to-use, full-featured, web-based tool for creating and conducting surveys online. Qualtrics can be access using ConnectND credentials.

MSU Service Desk

Chris Gonnella

Read & Write

MSU students, faculty, and staff have free access to Read & Write, an award-winning literacy software tool that can help students improve reading, writing, research, and study skills. The software is designed to help individuals of all ages, abilities, and learning styles.

Katie Richards

Respondus 4.0

Tool for creating and managing exams that can be printed to paper or published to Blackboard.

Robert Davis

Chris Gonnella

Safe Assign

Instantly fix plagiarism, grammatical errors, and other writing issues. Easily Improve Any Text. Eliminate Grammar Errors. AI Writing Assistant. Find and Add Sources Fast. Fix Punctuation Errors

Robert Davis

SharePoint

SharePoint provides a single point of access to email, a personal calendar, custom technical support documents, MSU news and information, file storage, software downloads, and more.

MSU Service Desk

Smarthinking

Smarthinking is an on-demand online tutoring program. Students have 10 hours of free access of live tutors from within each course shell via the Smarthinking icon.

Katie Richards

Taskstream

Taskstream is a customizable, electronic portfolio, assessment management and performance-based tool. The Nursing and Education Divisions utilize Taskstream extensively.

Nursing:
Taylor Jorgeson

Education:
Kayla Smith

Teams

Microsoft Teams is a hub for team collaboration in Microsoft 365 that integrates the people, content and tools teams need to be more engaged and productive.

MSU Service Desk

VoiceThread

VoiceThread is a web-based, asynchronous communication tool that can be used to enhance and “humanize” the online experience. With VoiceThread, students and faculty can narrate a presentation with audio and/or video, transform discussion forums from text only to audio/video and comment individually on a topic via text, voice or video.

Chris Gonnella

Robert Davis

YuJa

YuJa is a lecture and content capture software that was chosen by NDUS to provide service for its 11 campuses. YuJa enables faculty, staff, and students to record presentations, lessons, training, exam proctoring, and more. The recorded content is searchable, provides for notetaking, can be streamed live, and can be used on mobile devices. YuJa integrates with Blackboard. Direct address to YuJa without going through Blackboard is mayvillestate.yuja.com

Robert Davis

Chris Gonnella

Zoom Rooms

Zoom Room classroom spaces provide enhanced technologies for teaching hybrid style classes where some students need to participate remotely.  In-room cameras, microphones, and speakers allow the off-site students to participate in the classroom experience in a similar manner as those in the room.  A list of Zoom Rooms on campus is provided below. 

MSU Service Desk 

Zoom

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications. Zoom has an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, collaboration, chat, and webinars across multiple devices and room systems. Access Mayville State’s Zoom portal via mayvillestate.zoom.us.

MSU Service Desk