Can’t seem to cover all the material you need to in class? Just not enough time to have the needed discussion in class to prompt deeper learning. Well, you’re not alone. So, how can you make the most out of a 50 or 75-minute lecture? “Flip” your class. Have your students view the material or […]
Continue reading →As you know Wentworth is exploring replacing our LMS (currently Blackboard). This past academic year the LMS Taskforce explored how Blackboard was being used at Wentworth and what the community felt were benefits and short-comings of the system. We’ve prepared a report analyzing the results of surveys, focus groups (open forums) and data from Blackboard’s […]
Continue reading →In August we will be upgrading Blackboard to the Q4 2018 release. This upgrade brings mostly administrative, security, and bug fixes to the system. Only two features of note will change or be introduced, the integration of cloud storage has been added and the Bb Instructor app will permit annotation of assignments in the inline […]
Continue reading →On May 4th we changed the authentication for Blackboard to use Single Sign On (SSO) to improve the user experience. Initial testing did not reveal any problems but as sometimes happens with technology, we found some as soon as we went live. One issue, a missed configuration setting was quickly identified and corrected. A second […]
Continue reading →After several years of work from the NetOps team we are pleased (ecstatic!) to announce that users will soon have one less system to repeatedly log into. Blackboard will join other applications using Single Sign On. Once you login to any of the products using Office 365 (Azure) to authenticate, you will also be signed […]
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