Blackboard is currently working on a new version of Blackboard Instructor and wants faculty feedback on the grading functionality. With the recent changes in the inline grading tool in Blackboard it may be time to let Blackboard know what you need so that they can include those necessary features in the new app (and hopefully […]
Continue reading →Had an interesting troubleshooting session involving a file submitted for an assignment. The file was empty. The instructor gave a grade of 0 for the attempt. And a student was mystified how a week’s worth of work went missing when the file was on her computer and had lots of content. Some preliminary sleuthing by […]
Continue reading →The LIT Advisory Committee is hard at work! Several working groups are focused on fine tuning our academic technology toolkit going into the next fiscal budget cycle. Here are a few updates. Video at Wentworth: The group assessed several vendors and are selecting a few to come to campus for demonstrations. This work is informed […]
Continue reading →Over the winter break a new tab appeared in Blackboard, Academic Resources. The purpose of this tab was to provide a place for many of the modules that have been crowding the My Wentworth page in Blackboard where users could easily find them. When Wentworth migrated to Blackboard Managed Hosting from UMass Online, we licensed […]
Continue reading →The LIT team is on Twitter! I have recently met with the WIT Social Media team to discuss trends, hashtags, and strategies moving forward at Wentworth. On a weekday basis, I try to maintain activity on our account, either posting LIT announcements or retweeting helpful material for faculty. To help with organization, I have utilized HootSuite […]
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