Qwickly Plus Cloud increases the efficiency of communicating with members of multiple courses and organizations as well as simplifying tasks that need to be done repetitively in each course an instructor teaches. Qwickly Plus allows you to add documents, create assignments, post web links, send emails, post announcements and more to multiple blackboard courses and organizations in a single module. […]
» 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 […]
» Read moreBlackboard Outcomes Outcomes Assessment extracts direct evidence of student learning from Blackboard Learn courses. By collecting student-submitted assignments from existing courses and facilitating a rubric-based secondary evaluation of them, institutions can demonstrate achievement of learning outcomes. Outcomes Assessment provides a powerful dashboard for the overview and management of evidence collection, goals management, assessment-related, rubrics, and organizations for assessment collaboration. It automates […]
» Read moreUpgrade Dates: 5/8 – 5/10 Blackboard will be unavailable from Monday, May 8th at 8:00am to Wednesday, May 10th at 5:00pm for scheduled maintenance. Blackboard Support Team New Features (faculty features) Drag and Drop – When instructors create content items, assignments, and web links, they can drag files from their computers to the “hot spot” in the Attach Files area. Students […]
» Read more4/17/2017 Every year we purge old Blackboard courses. We do so to stay within 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 all 2013/2014/2015 course sites.. The purge date is May 7th, 2017. To save any courses from 2013,2014,2015, please fill out […]
» Read moreUpgrade Dates: 5/8 – 5/10 During this upgrade Bb will not be available. New Features Drag and Drop – When instructors create content items, assignments, and web links, they can drag files from their computers to the “hot spot” in the Attach Files area. Students can also drag files to upload when they submit assignments. Submission Receipts – instructors can keep track […]
» Read moreRespondus LockDown Browser for Students LockDown Browser (LDB) is a special browser for online test-taking, and it is also a building block in Blackboard. Some instructors require that online tests be taken using LDB as the browser. All other programs on your computer (email, YouTube, Facebook, etc.) need to be closed down for the install to continue (you will be […]
» Read moreBlackboard Maintenance Downtime on 2/12/17 6:05pm 2/12/17 Downtime Information. Planned downtime window was from 8am – noon. Blackboard was down until 940pm. The 9hrs and 40min timeframe was unexpected and not planned. Blackboard is still unavailable due to issues with the update this morning. Technicians are working with support to resolve as soon as possible. To check the authenticity of […]
» Read moreLockDown Browser Student Tips / Need to Know The URL for downloading Respondus LockDown Browser is here: use this download link. Students must download LockDown Browser to their local computer. It is an easy install of a file that is not very large. If you get a suggestion to re-download LDB, there is no need to do an uninstall […]
» Read moreECU will be putting a fix in place for this issue on 2/12/17. We are currently testing the fix on our developmental server. Until the 12th, please use this workaround. Discussion Board Access Denied Error Message. This happens when discussion forums are no longer available, either by selecting No for availability or by choosing date/time settings during the forum setup. […]
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