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 […]
Continue reading →Challenge (Joe Martel-Foley): How to use Rubrics and comment on student work Can you explain the process for how to use a rubric I created for grading lab reports? Can I use this is a later class? Is there any way to comment within the files turned in through blackboard to give specific comments on […]
Continue reading →With midterms fast approaching it’s worth revisiting an old post on reducing problems during testing in Blackboard. A lot can be done proactively to prevent problems during testing. NOTE: During Fall 2015 we saw a number of instances of students logging into a new Blackboard session in a second window after opening a test. The second login […]
Continue reading →Wentworth Institute of Technology subscribes to Films on Demand – a database of video resources on a wide variety of topics in multiple disciplines. The subscription includes copyright clearance and allows unlimited access in and outside of classroom. Films on Demand can be embedded in Blackboard or shared as a link. The following video (5 […]
Continue reading →Even if you teach face-to-face you can use Blackboard to capture class “attendance.” By posting content and required activities in Blackboard students’ activity can logged to serve as a indicator of intent to attend class.
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