Technology at Western Kentucky University (Ford) | Online MBA Degrees | Online Business Programs

Technology & Support

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Usable for classes

Required Internet speed

N/A

Recommended Internet speed

N/A

Delivery modes

Live streaming video	N/A
Live streaming audio	N/A
Recorded video	Yes
Recorded audio	Yes
Software-based readers	Yes
Application for display on tablet computer	Yes
Description of tablet application	N/A
Application for display on smartphone	Yes
Description of application for smartphone	N/A
Bulletin boards	Yes
Simulations	Yes
Online labs	No

Courses designed by certified instructional designers

N/A

Courses designed by an outside firm

Learning management system

Yes

All courses accessible to students from one learning management system

Yes

Blackboard

Yes

Services

Academic advising	Yes
Bookstore	Yes
E-mail address	Yes
Financial aid office/services	Yes
Access to digitized library materials	Yes
Access to live librarian	Yes
Local area network	Yes
Mentoring	Yes
Technical support	Yes
Live tutoring	Yes
Writing workshops	Yes

Instructor response expected within (hours)

24-7 live tech support

N/A

Tech support availability

Archived classes

All

Classes can be received live

None

Live online/on-campus classes after 5 p.m.

N/A

Percentage of classes with lectures

51-75

Student-student engagement

Online chatrooms	Yes
Web conferencing (webinars)	Yes
Skype or other visual software	Yes

New-student orientation	Yes
Review and sign ethics statement	N/A
Number of times a week students must log in to a typical course	N/A
Number of times per month faculty evaluate student participation	N/A
Number of times per month faculty provide feedback to students on participation	N/A
Courses requiring students to work collabratively with other students	Minority
Class participation graded	Yes

Exams	No
Number of settings in which in-person exams are administered	N/A
Anti-plagiarism screening required for essay assignments	N/A
Measures to instill academic integrity (as submitted by school)
WKU uses a variety of methods to instill academic integrity including: requiring proctored exams arranged through the DELO Testing Center; providing remote exam access recorded via Tegrity; utilizing timed exams and quizzes via Blackboard; Course intro videos/photos via Blackboard and/or Tegrity; Utilizing test banks in Blackboard which create different questions for each student taking the exam; Turn-It-In Software (papers are submitted through Blackboard, then this software crawls the assignment, flagging anything suspicious or uncited); Safe Assign, which works very similarly to Turn-it-in, SecureExam and Respondus