Tag Archives: Blackboard Learn
New Features in Blackboard Learn Service Pack 11
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 [...]
Evaluating Your Students- Blackboard Learn and its Underused Unique Feature- Part 1
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 [...]
Review of Blackboard’s Mobile Learn app
How can students use the Blackboard Mobile Learn app on their iPad? With the arrival of new technologies there is always the questions posed by higher education, “what could it do for us”? Blackboard Inc, the makers of the course management software we use at Purdue, has created a mobile application that allows students to [...]
Blackboard Learn Provides Enhanced Group Functions
Group functions within Blackboard Learn now allow for collaboration between students using blogs, file exchange, discussion board, journals, tasks, and Wikis. Students within a group can participate in real-time lessons and problem solving exercises. Groups may be set up manually, randomly automatic and by self-enrollment. Any number of groups or students to a group may [...]
Blackboard Learn Improves the User Interface
Blackboard Learn allows greater ease of use through new features that give more flexibility to instructors. The Edit Mode button allows you to change the view of content on the screen and see how the student will view the page. This replaces the previous Student view tab in Blackboard Vista. In addition, in place of [...]
Three Kinds of “Deleted Student” in Blackboard Learn
In Blackboard Learn there are three kinds of deleted students. This is not handled the same way it was in Vista. _ “Unenroll” – this deletes the student completely, including all the student’s work. Not recommended, as there is no record of the student in the class. – “Make Inactive”-This is something the instructor can [...]
Blackboard users group meets Jan. 31 to hear about Learn 9.1 features
The cross-campus Blackboard Users Group will meet from 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 31. Users may attend in person or connect online via Adobe Connect. Users of Blackboard or other teaching and learning technology tools are invited to join this community to share strategies, tips and techniques. The focus of this semester’s meetings will begin [...]