To update from our previous blog post on Feb 12th about the change from Crocodoc to New Box View and how the features integrate, Blackboard recently announced some updates to the New Box View and held a webinar at the end of February to explain these more in detail. The recording of the webinar can be accessed here. […]
Continue reading →The LIT Advisory Committee is hard at work! Several working groups are focused on fine tuning our academic technology toolkit going into the next fiscal budget cycle. Here are a few updates. Video at Wentworth: The group assessed several vendors and are selecting a few to come to campus for demonstrations. This work is informed […]
Continue reading →Hard to believe it’s Spring midterm time! LIT is holding drop-in sessions to assist faculty with using Blackboard to send grades to Banner. As always, we are also happy to answer any other pedagogy, Blackboard or instructional technology related questions, as well as meet with faculty individually and visit any department meetings on request. To get hands-on assistance, […]
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 →Starting in January for all courses and December for some “lucky” instructors, we’ll be rolling out new reporting functionality in Blackboard. Many instructors do not find the built-in Blackboard reports provide quite the information they need or they suspect the reports are not accurate. Wentworth has licensed an additional reporting tool to assist us in evaluating […]
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