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Blackboard Vista

What is it?

Blackboard Vista is a powerful learning management system that is designed to facilitate you in your face-to-face and online classes. Using web-based tools, Blackboard Vista helps you easily deliver course content, post grades, send email, and maintain a course calendar.  You can also deliver online exams, let students submit their assignments electronically, and hold online discussions. The user-friendly interface encourages instructor-student interaction and the result is a highly personalized learning experience. It is the cutting edge in learning management systems.

FACT provides the training and support you need to effectively use Blackboard Vista.

FACT has a designated an Instructional Designer (ID) for your department. Your ID will provide Blackboard support and answer other questions you may have regarding your online and/or on-site instruction. If you are unable to contact your ID and you need immediate help, please call our main number 797-9506.

Find your Instructional Designer

       
Rebecca Clark

rebecca.clark@usu.edu
(435) 797-2621
  • Rebecca is an Instructional Support Coordinator.  She will be working with your Instructional Designer to coordinate special projects and maintenance needs for your online course.

  
Carrie Dabb

carrie.dabb@usu.edu
(435) 797-0936
  • English
  • Family, Consumer, and Human Development
  • Folklore
  • Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
  • Nutrition and Food Sciences
  • Personal Finance and Planning

Sandy Durtschi

sandy.durtschi@usu.edu
(435) 797-0790
  • Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning
  • Mechanical and Aeronatic Engineering
  • Physics
  • Psychology
  • USU-when not part of another department


Kevin Erickson

kevin.erickson@usu.edu
(435) 797-8349
  • Kevin is our Blackboard Administrator and will be working with your Instructional Designer on Blackboard issues.

Joel Gardner

joel.gardner@usu.edu
(435) 797-8559
  • Ag Systems Technology and Education
  • Biological Irrigation Engineering
  • Business Administration
  • Electrical and Computing Engineering
  • History
  • Journalism and Communications
  • Math and Statistics
  • Reserve Officer Training Corps
  • Sociology, Social Work, and Anthropology

       
Tae Keun Jeon (John)

tae.jeon@usu.edu
(435) 797-3716
  • Art
  • Biology
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Center for Persons with Disabilities
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering Technology Education
  • Political Science
  • Special Education
  • Theatre Arts

George Joeckel III

george.joeckel@usu.edu
(435) 797-1596 
  • Environment and Society
  • Intensive English Language Institute
  • Plant, Soils, and Climate
  • School of Teacher Education and Leadership
  • Watershed Sciences
  • Wildland Resources

 Neal Legler

neal.legler@usu.edu
(435) 797-1903
  • Accounting
  • Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences
  • Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Economics
  • Education
  • Geology
  • Interior Design
  • Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication
  • Management and Human Resources
  • Management Information Systems/Office Systems Support
  • Music

 
John Louviere

john.louviere@usu.edu
(435) 797-7144
 
  • Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education
  • Library
  • SKI-HI Institute

 
Kevin Reeve

kevin.reeve@usu.edu
(435) 797-0783

  • Instructional Technology

 
John Spencer

john.spencer@usu.edu
(435) 734-2277
 
  • John is the Instructional Designer for Brigham City Campus Faculty.

 
Elisa Taylor

elisa.taylor@usu.edu
(435) 882-6611
 
  • Elisa is the Instructional Designer for Regional Campus Faculty.



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