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 →At the beginning of Summer term 2016 we introduced a new grading workflow that allowed instructors to submit grades from Blackboard directly to Banner. Our hope is that eventually we will no longer need the grade submission tool in LeopardWeb that is so painful to many instructors. As you are probably aware, this implementation has […]
Continue reading →The inline grading tool in Blackboard is changing on January 12th during our regular maintenance window (8 PM to midnight). The new tool, Box View, has some good and not so good features. Read more and view a video demonstrating how the new tool works.
Continue reading →For Blackboard users, you may have noticed that the “Create File” is missing from the Create Content menu. As part of the Bettering Learner Engagement Study (BLES) we discovered that the number of files posted to a course had a negative impact on student course performance, especially for students in the lower half of the […]
Continue reading →Last fall Blackboard researchers published a report on course design in Blackboard based on student use of the tools in Blackboard (Whitmer et al, 2016). The data sample used was an aggregate of over 600,000 learners , 70,000 courses from 927 institutions and included measures of time spent using tools. Using cluster analysis the authors […]
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