Blackboard’s weighted columns can handle almost any grade calculation. Options include equal and proportional weighting of columns in categories, dropping low scores, or selecting only the highest score. There are few options that can’t be accommodated using Blackboard Grade Center.
Continue reading →Blackboard’s Grade Center can automatically calculate grades. But do you really know what average means in Blackboard? Weighted versus unweighted averages cause confusion about whether the system has calculated grade correctly.
Continue reading →As part of our ongoing project to identify the next LMS for Wentworth, we’ve created a Next Generation Digital Learning Environment at Wentworth SharePoint site open to the entire Wentworth community. On this site you will find the original Request for Proposals (RFP) that was sent to vendors, the proposals submitted, a calendar of events […]
Continue reading →In planning to migrate from Lynda Learning to LinkedIn Learning, we identified content in Blackboard that instructors need to update for the links to continue to work. The report below lists much of the content in Blackboard from Lynda.com that we know will not redirect after the update. (Most links will redirect for at least […]
Continue reading →What Qwickly Attendance users need to know When you are setting up Qwickly Attendance in your course, you no longer go to the course control panel. Instead, there is a menu item in the Build Content menu for Qwickly Attendance tool. Create a link to Qwickly Attendance with this new menu option in a content […]
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