Link to an interactive tool from a content area
Are you having your students engage in online discussion, write blog or journal posts, collaborate using a wiki, or work in groups? If you’re organizing your course by topic rather than content type...
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Want to be notified whenever someone posts to a discussion board forum? If the option has been enabled by the instructor, you can subscribe to a forum. When you’ve subscribed to a forum you’ll get an...
View ArticleDownload (and Print?) a Graded Assignment
At some point you may want to keep a copy of the feedback your professor gave you on a written assignment submitted through Blackboard, either for your own records or for a portfolio-type project....
View ArticleCreate a Survey From a Pool of Questions
If you’re using the IDS provided template, you’re probably considering providing the students with an opportunity to give you feedback on their experience of the course while the course is in progress....
View ArticleAllowing additional submissions
From time to time a student will have an issue turning in a test or assignment and you’ll want to give them another opportunity to submit their work. If you’ve set up the test or assignment for single...
View ArticleDownload Respondus Lockdown Browser
If you plan to use Respondus Lockdown Browser for testing in your Blackboard course site, students will need to download the Lockdown Browser prior to taking the test. Respondus LockDown Browser uses a...
View ArticleTesting with Respondus LockDown Browser
What is it? Respondus LockDown Browser provides a more secure environment for online testing. LockDown Browser itself is a separate web browser (like Internet Explorer, Firefox, or Chrome) specifically...
View ArticleJournals, Blogs, Discussion, Wikis … What’s the difference? (And which to use...
Blackboard’s suite of asynchronous social tools — Journals, Blogs, Discussion, and Wikis — provide students with different methods of sharing and recording their thoughts. Each tool functions very...
View ArticleMotivating students through course gamification and blackboard tools
Presentation Resources Presentation slides (PDF) Sample Syllabus / Schedule (PDF) References Gameful Pedaogy by GradeCraft Boskic, N., & Hu, S. (2015). Gamification in Higher Education: How we...
View ArticleOptimize video for online delivery using Handbrake
If you’ve used your phone, tablet, or digital camera to record video for your students to watch, you may find the resulting files large and take forever to upload. This means they’ll also take a long...
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