Category: Use Blackboard

Got Something to Say About Digital Learning Environments?

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Join the conversation hosted by Educause and the Gates Foundation: Exploring the Next-Generation Digital Learning Environment: Opportunities and Challenges 4/27 and 4/28 noon-3:30 each day.  Check out the details http://www.educause.edu/eli/events/eli-online-focus-session/program LIT has booked the Bond Conference room for both days, feel free to join us! Additional logins to participate are available –let me know if […]

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Final Exam Tips for Faculty and Students

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Instructors and students can take steps to make exams in Blackboard less stressful. Some useful tips for instructors include not using forced completion, using test pools to generate multiple versions of a test, setting time limits and requiring students to report problems to their instructors ASAP. Suggestions for students include conducting a browser test and completing any practice tests the instructor provides.

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Summer Opening Week Sessions for Faculty

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LIT will offer several faculty development opportunities during Wentworth Opening Week. Three focused, facilitated workshop sessions will take place on May 10th in the Beatty 103 Conference Room: Start this Semester Right = Syllabus + Grade Center – 9:00am-10:00am Improving Course Accessibility: Tips and Best Practices – 12:30pm-1:30pm Increase Student Engagement with Technology – 2:00pm-3:00pm In addition, several drop-in informal Q/A sessions […]

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Blackboard Challenge – Coding Assignments

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Challenge (Joey Lawrance): Using Blackboard for coding assignments I’d like to use Blackboard the way I use Github, Bitbucket, or Gitlab: by using git, a version control system used widely in industry. Computer science students benefit from learning git and version control through experience, but since Blackboard does not support git or any other version […]

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Blackboard Challenge – Grade Center – Part 2

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Challenge (Beth Ann Cooke-Cornell): Gradebook versus Excel In Excel can have a different formula for each student to accommodate those individual circumstances, can drop the lowest two quiz grades easily, have multiple grading sheets that are readily available, have all the assignments listed at the top and and a clean sheet with just numbers and […]

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