Blackboard Page on Extra Credit A very useful video explaining how to add extra credit to a final grade or exclusively to a set of assignments, and have that update the grade a student sees in the Blackboard grade center.
Author: Albert Borroni
Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign
Now that Adobe products are available in all labs on campus and for faculty/staff use, people have been asking which product should they use. Specifically, should one use Photoshop, Illustrator or InDesign. I recently stumbled across a very easy to follow answer to this question. You can find it here: https://99designs.com/blog/tips/photoshop-vs-illustrator-vs-indesign/ Enjoy
SmartEvals: Sending reminder email to unresponsive students (for faculty)
Information on how to add questions to your online student evaluations in SmartEvals.
January 10, 2017 OCTET Winter Term Workshop
EdTech Workshop for Professional Staff What? Short presentations on some of the projects that are of greatest interest around campus: Construction on campus, Library update, Athletics update, Oberlin Online, the new Learning Management System, Dean of Students presentation AND short presentations — by YOU — on what’s happening in your shop When? Tuesday, Jan 10th, […]
Current use of LMS (Blackboard)
Currently Blackboard … serves as a portal that provides interactive websites for all courses and various offices. Space for HR information
LMS players
Blackboard 9.1 (OWU) Blackboard Ultra Canvas (St. Johns, Middlebury) Schoology (Wheaton) Notebowl (Denison) Google Classroom Moodle (Kenyon, Wooster) Sakai
Survey of faculty and students who have used systems other than Blackboard
A recent survey was conducted via Blackboard (Nov 19-22) asking users if they have used other LMS products and what their impressions were of those relative to what we are currently using. Here are some of the results:
How to create a successful flipped learning experience for you and your students
The Flipped Classroom: Strategies to Overcome Student Resistance and Increase Student Engagement >>> Upcoming Seminar | October 18 <<< Join Barbi Honeycutt, editor of the newly released book titled Flipping the College Classroom: Practical Advice from Faculty, as she provides strategies you can use to create a successful flipped learning experience for you and your […]
Blackboard Review Process outlined (2016)
A Blackboard review is being conducted during the Spring 2016 semester. The process includes: Convening of a core group of individuals who make use of Blackboard. This includes reps from the faculty, ResEd, Deans Offices, Athletics and students: Allison Gallaher, Ben Kuperman, Bill Denneen, Chester Andrews, Liz Clerking, Jan Cooper, Jason Hudson, Martin Hundley, Pam […]
EXCO course shells in Blackboard
All EXCO courses have an instance in Blackboard. Users that are officially listed as instructors will see a link to the instance under the ‘My Online Courses’ module. The courses are already pre-populated with anyone that officially signed up for the course. Therefore, the email function and class roster is ready to go. Links to […]