By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus Have you been using Blackboard in the same way for the past five years? Are your Learning Materials still a dumping ground for every handout and PowerPoint ever? These 5 Blackboard Hacks will have you running a smoother course (for […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus If you haven’t heard, Blackboard is in the midst of re-imagining their products on a very broad scale. Over on the Blackboard Blog, John Kolko, Vice President of Product, Innovation, and Design at MyEdu recently shared the “design language system” […]
By Ish Stabosz Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Stanton Campus Ernie Kulhanek, who’s posted for us several times in the past, recently shared this handy tool with me. Apparently, the College of Southern Idaho has developed a web application that allows you to paste in text from a Microsoft Word […]
By Steve Wright Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Terry Campus Vince Lombardi, head coach of the Green Bay Packers, opened his first team meeting each year with the same line: “Gentlemen, this is a football.” Then, walking the team out to the field, Lombardi would point out the boundary lines […]
By Jerry Pearson Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Terry Campus I am sure there have been many times you have felt frustrated with how your Learning Management System (LMS) works or fails to work in your web browser. Some of the fault may lie with your LMS system but usually […]
By Dallas Hayes Center for Creative Instruction & Technology Delaware Technical Community College Dover Campus CCIT has recently made available a feature of Blackboard called “avatars”, which allows users to have an image (known as an avatar) that will follow them from course to course, appearing in places such as your discussion board posts. Avatars […]
This demonstration by Torria Bond of California Baptist University offers best practices for using rubrics in Blackboard. Participants in this webinar will be able to identify what rubrics are, describe holistic and analytic rubrics, and be able to construct rubrics within Blackboard following this presentation. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYk0ba6J51g&list=PLontYaReEU1vN2imbReJUtdROnWSNqPB1&index=1]
This video show how to set up your Blackboard profile and share it with others. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuUTg9LSGG4&list=PLontYaReEU1v1P4Nq1ilNGlkfDUNQDZVl&index=3]
This video shows how to use item analysis to to measure the effectiveness of test questions.This video shows how to use item analysis to to measure the effectiveness of test questions. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZeyX2yJfFU&list=PLontYaReEU1v1P4Nq1ilNGlkfDUNQDZVl&index=6]
This video shows how to access global navigation, navigate the user menu and My Blackboard. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_aZCVQYSj0&list=PLontYaReEU1v1P4Nq1ilNGlkfDUNQDZVl&index=4]