Bohannon Science Center 134
John Carroll University
University Heights, OH 44118

See building 5 on the JCU campus & parking maps.

The Faculty Technology Innovation Center (FTIC) is a unit within the Information Services Department dedicated to the support and advancement of technology-enhanced teaching, learning, and research at John Carroll University. Equipped with the latest hardware and software resources, the FTIC strives to meet this objective through a combination of faculty research and multimedia development assistance, workshops, and application support.

SafeAssign™ is a new plagiarism prevention service that is integrated with the Blackboard Learning System. This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. Although it is a new Blackboard service, it is based on a mature and proven technology that Blackboard acquired from Sciworth Inc. (MyDropBox) and enhanced to offer even better stability, performance, and integration with other Blackboard products. Click on the links below to learn more.

The Campus Pack suite of social learning applications was recently added to John Carroll's Blackboard Learning System. The suite adds blogging, wiki, e-portfolio, podcasting, and advanced search capabilities that are powerful yet easy to use.

CourseFeed serves as a “mash-up” between Facebook and Blackboard. Facebook users see the names and photos of their JCU classmates and are given tools to interact – making online course work social and collaborative. CourseFeed’s alerts let students know when changes are made in their Blackboard courses and provides single-click access to course content.