This case study explores how a tutor in Health and Wellbeing encouraged students to present and record their work using screencasting software. As part of their module students were required to understand principles associated with digital media. By engaging in the process of developing and delivering a recorded presentation the tutor felt the students would…
We recommend you hide the Grade Centre column from students during the marking process. This means that when you upload grades and feedback to a student that they can’t immediately see their results. This helps facilitate second marking practices, where grades and feedback may get adjusted before they are given to students. Also when marks and feedback are…
Including an RSS feed on your Blackboard site is a simple and effective way to make it more engaging to students. An RSS (‘Really Simple Syndication’) feed presents a bulletin of key information from an external site, just like having a subscription to your favourite website or online content. When additional content becomes available, it automatically appears…
Did you know that there is an easy way to quickly navigate betweeen students in the Grade Centre during grading without having to go back to and load the Grade Centre spreadsheet each time? Once you have accessed a student’s attempt in the Grade Centre for grading, you can simply move to the next student…
Did you know that Smart Views in Grade Centre can help you better manage and navigate the Grade Centre, for example enabling you to see a view of only your group of students rather than the entire cohort? These custom views (based on various criteria and filters that you choose from) can streamline the grading of student…
All staff received an email this past week about an incident where someone sent a group of students an email using the To: field and their personal email addresses. Personal email addresses and other personal data should not be shared in this way. It is best to send emails using Bcc: (where recipients do not see each…
This article is the last of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. The Blackboard upgrade includes various other changes to benefit staff and students. These include: Ability to navigate between sites quickly After the upgrade you will…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. During this summer we are implementing a new Blackboard product called Collaborate. Collaborate is a virtual classroom tool which is about facilitating synchronous (at the same…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. In Blackboard, a feedback rubric is a tool that displays the assessment criteria for an assignment; they will be available on Blackboard after the upgrade. Feedback rubrics can…
This article is part of a series of articles explaining the new features and changes that will be introduced as part of the Blackboard upgrade coming up 20-21 July. As part of the upgrade, there are various improvements being introduced to the Blackboard test feature. This feature allows you to set up multiple choice, multiple…