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Evaluating Your Students- Blackboard Learn and its Underused Unique Feature-Part 2
May 9, 2013
We are at the end of the spring semester, which means Summer courses will begin soon and planning for the Fall semester is already underway. Now is a great time to consider how to use student activity reports in addressing participation issues or finding out what content/tools in your course(s) are getting attention and which [...]
New Features in Blackboard Learn Service Pack 11
May 6, 2013
Purdue will upgrade to Blackboard Learn Service Pack 11 during the 2013 Summer Session. With this upgrade to Service Pack 11 will come several notable changes that faculty will see as they use Learn. While the look and feel of Blackboard will not change dramatically, several new features will be introduced to enhance the use [...]
Creating a Complete/Incomplete assignment option in Blackboard Learn
March 25, 2013
Instructors sometimes ask, ”How can I create an assignment in Blackboard Learn that isn’t graded?” It is possible to create a check mark in your Grade Center indicating a task is completed without assigning a grade value. The trick is setting that part up after you have created the assignment. To have an entry that [...]
Evaluating Your Students- Blackboard Learn and its Underused Unique Feature- Part 1
March 12, 2013
Who viewed this item? What did students look at before test day? Are any of my students utilizing the resources I’ve posted? If you are the type of instructor who is asking these questions – it could be that you teach a large lecture course, maybe an online course with students all over the nation [...]
Add Headings to Word Documents in Your Blackboard Course
March 7, 2013
Documents you put into Blackboard, and other web pages, must be accessible to people with disabilities. There are simple techniques you can use to improve the accessibility of documents as they are created. This article will show you how to easily add structural headings in Microsoft Word for Windows 2007 and 2010. Why are structural [...]
Tips for Creating Accessible Online Documents
February 18, 2013
Purdue’s Web Accessibility Committee recently published a new resource. It is designed to help faculty and staff author documents that are accessible to people with disabilities. A wide variety of documents created by Purdue faculty and staff are uploaded into Blackboard or web pages. Each uploaded document — whether Microsoft Word, PDF, or another format [...]
Considerations of Accepting Homework in Blackboard
January 25, 2013
If you’re considering accepting homework via Blackboard Learn, this can be a benefit to both you and and your students. You can reduce the amount of paper that you need to work with by accepting your assignments electronically, and your students can simply submit their homework to you when they’re finished and not have to [...]
Taking Care When Setting Up Your Class in Blackboard Learn
November 16, 2012
For faculty who are utilizing Blackboard Learn to either supplement an existing face-to-face class or who teach a class entirely online, one aspect that is easy to overlook is the look and feel of the class. For faculty using Learn, not only should care be taken to determine what content will be made available to [...]
Considering e-Texts for your class? Consider these points…
November 7, 2012
Many of us have a tendency to think that if we adopt an eText format for our class textbooks we will be more innovative and provide the students a cheaper service. Here are some common assumptions (if you are interested in the research behind these statements, please send me an email): eTexts cost less – [...]
Maintaining Security on Blackboard Learn Exams
October 19, 2012
Blackboard Learn offers the ability for faculty to provide tests and quizzes that students can complete outside of normal class hours, or in the case of online or blended courses, the tests and quizzes given on Blackboard can replace those normally given in a traditional classroom. However, there can be concerns with regards to the [...]