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Electronic Reading Lists @ Leicester
Reading lists have traditionally been added to Blackboard courses as either a Blackboard ‘item’ or as a Word / PDF downloadable file. Neither of these is particularly user friendly and certainly not ‘dynamic’ or helpful. Which is why Stephen and myself attended the Library training on Talis Aspire training on how to create and manage […]
Blackboard Users’ Conference, January 2013
The 2013 Blackboard Users’ Conference was held at the welcoming University of Durham. With a full programme of research and experience from around the UK both College Learning Technology Assistants, David and Stephen, were able to attend and participate in the activities. Presentations this year covered all aspects of Blackboard use, as well as a […]
The new ‘Content Editor’
The upgrade to Blackboard 9.1 (service pack 8) last year brought one update that I think everyone has been waiting for … the new text editor. Here are a few pointers to making the most of it: Options for text and font formatting are more tightly controlled – it’s more difficult to change font and […]
Case Study: Online Assessment Marking and Feedback
With the growing popularity of marking assignments and providing feedback to students online we developed a series of workshops with supporting materials in Autumn 2012. Along with the workshop materials and hands-on time with Turnitin and online marking & feedback we provided two postcards as ‘take-away’ materials with tips and reminders of aspects of Turnitin […]
Blackboard: Links / Shortcuts
I find this little shortcut is really really useful, I hope you do too. If you have to send a link to a Blackboard course, either by email or in documents or student handbooks, then the URL (web address) you copy from the browser address bar is very long, unfriendly, and subject to input errors. […]
Blackboard: Blog vs Journal, is there is a difference?
In the current version of Blackboard (9.1) there are two options if you want to have your students completing a reflective writing or journal/diary exercise – use the Blog or Journal tools. The features in each are the same, so what’s the difference? Blog Blogs are designed to be visible to and allow comments from everyone […]
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