To post to Piazza, you’ll first need to click the NEW POST button, which appears in the upper left of the Piazza screen. Before you get to typing your question, you’ll need to set the post’s type, audience, and location. Post type indicates whether you’re posting a question (which begs a response), a note (a block of text that needs no response), or whether you’re posting a block of text that will include a poll (note, details of the Poll/In-Class...
Piazza is a free, third-party question and answer tool available to use through Blackboard. Piazza discussion differs from standard Blackboard discussion in a number of ways, primarily in that it is geared toward students collaborating to produce a single response to a question or discussion prompt in a wiki-like fashion, rather than each student responding individually. Piazza set up is a two-step process. First, we add the Piazza tool link to the course, then we create or choose the Piazza...
The University of Detroit Mercy’s Blackboard course management system include a number of tools that may not be initially available inside a course site. If you are interested in using a Blackboard tool that is not available in your course, check to see if the tool is installed and just needs to be made available to use. To make a tool available to use, go to CUSTOMIZATION under the Course Management heading. Then click TOOL AVAILABILITY. Scroll down the list...
This six minute video outlines how easy it is to make changes to the menu in your Blackboard course site. ...
Office Mix is a free plug-in for PowerPoint that makes it easy for faculty or students to record narrated presentations and post them to Blackboard. The below video walk you through the process of recording, publishing, and posting a lecture to Knowledge. Want more help? Microsoft has developed a series of detailed tutorials on using Mix that can be found on the Office Mix web site. Note: Mix is only available for the Office 2013 version of PowerPoint...
