Here we look at the Assignment tool, the best way to collect student work through Blackboard. This video covers creating the assignment submission space. If you’re looking for information on grading assignments once they’ve been submitted, check out our other video on that topic....
The Instructional Design Studio has a limited number of laptops that may be checked out by faculty and staff interested in developing online course content. These laptops have Camtasia software installed, which makes it a breeze to record any onscreen activity, from PowerPoint lectures to software tutorials. Our new laptops include high quality touchscreens, making it easy to annotate your presentations, or write or draw your own. Check out a short demo of the software here … Laptops can be...
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In this short video, we use the popular photo sharing site Flickr to find an image we have permission to use, then we edit that image in the free photo editing software PhotoScape and post it on a Blackboard course site. Though this video focuses on creating a banner for a Blackboard course site, the principles can be applied to finding and editing Creative Commons images....
More and more courses are being taught online or at least have an online component in the course work. Testing is often a part of online courses, just like it is in traditional, face-to-face courses. When administering an online test, there are a few strategies you can employ that will encourage honesty. Random Questions, Random Answers The first and most effective strategy is to provide students with a randomized test. IDS recommends putting your test questions into one or more...
