We know that several of you have Macs at home. These directions are for creating narrated PowerPoints in Office 2008 for Macs.

Several instructors have written requesting instructions on setting up narrated PowerPoints in order to avoid rescheduling lectures from the snowed out week of school closings. These directions will walk you through the process of creating these. Simply send the presentation to us using Accellion, and we'll make sure it's published and made available to students.

With all the bad weather, many students are filling instructor email boxes with papers and assignments. If you'd like students to use your Blackboard site rather than emailing you, you can create Assignment Managers for any type of assignment, or SafeAssignments (which can automatically run a submitted assignment through a plagiarism detection service) in your Blackboard site, preventing your inbox being filled with several dozen student papers.

• How to set up an Assignment Manager in Blackboard
• A quicksheet for setting up a SafeAssignment (PDF)