Five Blackboard tips for managing grades more easily
1. DOWN ARROWS Blackboard 8 introduced new “contextual menus” – the down-arrows icon on the Grade Center. Don’t be afraid to click through some of these icons. You will discover …
Bb Tip: Catch up with your reading on the Blackboard Discussion Board
Do you find it is tedious to read a large number of discussion threads, needing multiple clicks to read each one, reply, and read more? Let us introduce you to …
Blackboard Tip: Email your announcement
New in Blackboard 8: When you post the announcement in Blackboard, you can choose to email your announcement to all of the users in the course site by clicking a …
Duke Nursing Students Created Health Policy Advocacy Videos
Nancy M. Short Associate Clinical Professor, Duke School of Nursing Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) students engaged in a unique active learning experience in Spring 2009 as they tackled Nursing …
Duke faculty share Blackboard tips
Duke faculty and instructors in the University Writing Program and Romance Languages talk about how they use Blackboard for their teaching in short videos. Here are some examples: Cary Moskovitz …
Bb Tip: Students share files within Blackboard
Peer collaborative learning enhances the value of student-to-student interaction and results in various advantageous learning outcomes. Instructors can use the Blackboard’s built-in collaboration tools to allow students to access each …
Online education seminar: Award-winning tools, tips and technology for online instruction
In collaboration with the School of Nursing, Pratt School of Engineering and Nicholas School of the Environment, CIT is offering Duke faculty access to an online seminar from STARLINK focused …
Keep up with the Blackboard buzz!
Have you wondered how you or your support staff can keep informed about changes to Blackboard including scheduled outages, updates, bugs, news and training opportunities? You are in luck! Sign …
Bb Tip: Export Blackboard grades to STORM
In your Bb course Control Panel look for the Export Official Grades link. This plugin allows you to export a column of grades from a course site’s gradebook in a …
National Distance Learning Week sponsored by USDLA
Sponsored by the United States Distance Learning Association, National Distance Learning Week (NDLW) held on November 10-14, 2008, seeks to promote and celebrate the tremendous growth and accomplishments occurring today …