Blackboard Teaching and Learning Conference – new developments
photo credit: adesigna via photopin cc New developments for Blackboard I mentioned in an earlier post that Blackboard are becoming more responsive to their local markets. The ugly phrase they used to describe this is ‘countrification’. As a result of this several new features and changes to design were unveiled at the Blackboard Teaching […]
Case Study: Online Marking and Feedback Using Blackboard, Turnitin, and GradeMark
In a collaborative project between the College Learning Technology Assistants (LTAs; David and Stephen), IT Services (ITS; Catherine Leyland), and Academic Practice Services (APS; Nichola Hayes), a series of resources and guides have been developed to support the use of Blackboard, Turnitin and GradeMark for online assignment submission and marking/feedback. These case studies build on […]
Blackboard Education on Tour, October 2013
On October 22nd Stephen and I attended the ‘Blackboard Education on Tour’ event in London. This was our chance to learn from the experts, speak with the team behind the current Blackboard service, and to speak with the developers on what is being developed and proposed for the Blackboard (Bb) Learn system we use at […]
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 […]
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