Tag Archives: academic
Considerations of Accepting Homework in Blackboard
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 [...]
Course redesign? Yes. Student redesign? Definitely.
We can redesign courses and work with faculty to alter pedagogy, but if we fail to teach students how to best succeed in our courses, our redesign efforts may be for naught.
Computers and Writing 2010
Next spring Purdue will host Computers & Writing 2010 (http://www.digitalparlor.org/cw2010), an international conference dedicated to exploring how evolving technologies affect how we create, network, and write in the digital age. Other topics include pedagogies of teaching and learning to communicate, social networking, gaming and gaming communities, and new challenges to traditional understandings of writing and [...]
Intermittent Outages this weekend for Blackboard SafeAssign and Scholar
Communication from Blackboard, Inc.: Please note that Blackboard SafeAssign and Blackboard Scholar will be intermittently unavailable while undergoing maintenance on Saturday, October 10th and Sunday, October 11th. This maintenance window is to update the hardware and network infrastructure of these products. The expected outcomes of this update are: Increased capacity for these services Improved performance [...]
Purdue Moving from Turnitin to SafeAssign for Plagiarism Checking
Turnitin still available until May 12, 2010 Beginning this semester, SafeAssign is available for use in Blackboard by instructors wishing to use a plagiarism-checking service in their Blackboard courses. Turnitin, the plagiarism-checking service used by Purdue University for the past few years, will continue to be available throughout the 2009-2010 year, but users should make [...]
Signals: Early Intervention for Student Success
A new web-based application, developed at Purdue, for use in Blackboard This Fall, 12 large-enrollment classes — about 10,000 students at Purdue University – West Lafayette, will use Signals, a new web-based application developed at Purdue. Helping students succeed academically is the goal of every instructor, advisor, and staff member at Purdue University. Signals provides [...]