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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.

For detailed information on what Blackboard Vista can do for you take a look at our brochure (pdf).

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
  • 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 Aeronautic Engineering
  • Physics
  • Psychology
  • USU-when not part of another department

Joel Gardner

joel.gardner@usu.edu
(435) 797-8559
  • Ag Systems Technology and Education
  • Biological Irrigation Engineering
  • Business Administration
  • Electrical and Computing Engineering
  • 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
  • Center for Persons with Disabilities
  • Special Education

George Joeckel III

george.joeckel@usu.edu
(435) 797-1596 
  • Elementary and Secondary Education
  • Engineering Technology Education
  • Environment and Society
  • Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Intensive English Language Institute
  • Plant, Soils, and Biometerology
  • Watershed Sciences
  • Wildland Resources

 Neal Legler

neal.legler@usu.edu
(435) 797-1903
  • Chemistry and Biochemistry
  • Education
  • Geology
  • Interior Design
  • Music

 
John Louviere

john.louviere@usu.edu
(435) 797-7144
 
  • Animal, Dairy, and Veterinary Sciences
  • Communicative Disorders and Deaf Education
  • SKI-HI Institute

 
Kevin Reeve

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

 
Kevin Shanley (Shanley)

kevin.shanley@usu.edu
(435) 797-3262

  • Accounting
  • Computer Science
  • Economics
  • Library
  • Management and Human Resources
  • Management Information Systems/Office Systems Support

 
Merry Lu Zeller

merrylu.zeller@usu.edu
(435) 797-7199

  • History
  • Journalism and Communications
  • Languages, Philosophy, and Speech Communication
  • Polictical Science
  • Theatre Arts



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