Download 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...
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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...
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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...
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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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