4/20/2018 Every year we purge old Blackboard courses. We do so to stay inline with our storage goals and business policy of keeping only two years of Blackboard sites in our production system. In a few short weeks, we will be purging the following courses. 2015 – all Summer and Fall courses sites 2016 – all Spring sites This purge […]
» Read moreMay 2018 Upgrade New Features Blackboard Ally – Ally provides instructors with an accessibility score for their content and suggests ways for improvement. Both students and faculty have automatically generated alternative versions of uploaded files, such accessible HTML,digital braille, and audio formats. Support Blackboard Collaborate – Improve collaboration among students by adding real time face to face conferencing functionality. Support Delete Multiple […]
» Read moreBlackboard is currently down for planned system maintenance. The downtime is as follows. 12/19 8am through 12/24/17 noon. UPDATE: We are currently on pace to be done w the upgrade the morning of the 23rd. NOTE: Brody School of Medicine faculty and students will still have access to Blackboard during this planned downtime by using a mirror Blackboard […]
» Read moreBlackboard’s Inline Grading in the Assignment tool is now Powered by Box (starting Spring 2018 semester). The new Box View offers several improvements over Crocodoc, including improved rendering fidelity, expanded support for new file types including video and images and printing functionality. Here is a side-by-side comparison of Crocodocs vs the new Box view: As you can see the […]
» Read moreChanges to the Inline Grading in the Blackboard Assignment Tool Blackboard’s current service for Inline Grading in the Assignment tool is a web-based tool called Crocodoc. Crocodoc allows the instructor to view and add feedback to a document without having to download the document. Box.com purchased Crocodoc in 2013 and recently announced that the service would move to the new […]
» Read moreCourse at a Glance How to access: Control Panel / Evaluation / Course Analytics / Course at a Glance This report provides summary information about a Blackboard course and relative information against a group of other Blackboard courses in the same academic department and type of course. Instructors can use these reports to analyze: How many times students access the […]
» Read moreThe Blackboard Retention Center helps you discover which students in your course are at risk. Based on default rules and rules you create, students’ engagement and participation are visually displayed, quickly alerting you to potential risk. From the Retention Center, you can communicate with struggling students and help them take immediate action for improvement. The Retention Center does not automatically […]
» Read moreWhat is it? EAC is an outcomes assessment tool within Blackboard that provides detailed test and item reliability statistics to improve the quality of exams, exam questions, as well as rubrics. It also can examine student performance on learning outcomes across course and over time. Item Analysis EAC can help determine: Exam reliability as a whole (KR20) Exam reliability based […]
» Read moreQwickly Plus Cloud increases the efficiency of sharing with members of multiple courses and organizations as well as simplifying tasks that need to be done repetitively in each course. Qwickly Plus allows you to add documents, post web links, send emails, post announcements and more to multiple blackboard courses and organizations in a single module. Using Qwickly Plus Cloud Tools, […]
» Read moreBlackboard Portfolio Portfolios are an invaluable tool in academic and professional development. They provide a powerful medium for users to efficiently collect and organize artifacts representative of work completed over time. Portfolios offer a means to demonstrate formative and/or summative progress and achievement. Portfolio authors are empowered with tools to effectively present their information in a cohesive, personalized format. If […]
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