Set up a Discussion Forum
Need to set up a space for online discussion? This video walks you through the process of setting up a Blackboard discussion forum....
Category Archives: Control Panel
Discussion – Reading, Replying, Posting
Need to participate in online discussion for course or group work? This short (12 minute) video gives you the basics of reading, replying, and posting to an online discussion forum....
Exporting Collaborate Archives as Video Files
If you’ve tried exporting an archive file from Bb Collaborate recently, you may have noticed it takes an exceedingly long time for the file to finish converting. Unreasonably long, one might say. When you click the CONVERT link on Knowledge, you’re actually ordering a process that takes place at Blackboard, alongside every other CONVERT link clicked by every other faculty person at every other institution that uses Blackboard Collaborate. There are quite a few of those. As a result, these...
Academic Integrity, Testing, and Blackboard
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...
Having issues getting Collaborate to load? Anti-virus software may be the culprit.
There have been a few folks reporting issues with Collaborate not loading the join.jnlp Java file. This might be the anti-virus software installed on the computer that’s stopping Collaborate from loading. Programs such as Kaspersky, AVG, Norton, McAfee etc. to name a few can help protect your computer, but may be protecting a little too much by blocking sites that you want to visit. Unfortunately, they all have different menu items/options making it difficult to instruct how to navigate their...
