By default, anyone listed as an instructor in a course site won’t appear in the list of users who can be added to a group. Fortunately, it’s pretty easy to make those folks appear on the Add Users list, just check the Show all users regardless of role box in the search space at the top of the group’s Add Users page, and anyone listed in the course (including instructors and teaching assistants) will be available to add....
The Blackboard plagiarism checking tool, SafeAssign is available as an option on any Assignment. Just click the Submission Details heading, then check the box labelled Check submissions for plagiarism using SafeAssign to enable SafeAssign plagiarism checking on the assignment. As the name would indicate, checking the Allow students to view SafeAssign originality report for their attempts makes the originality report available to students. By default, all student submissions are added to an institutional database. This database is one of the...
Blackboard course sites have a student view available to faculty. To switch into Student Preview mode, click the EYE icon in the upper right of your course site: Clicking this button temporarily turns a faculty account into a student account. While in Student Preview mode, the course site a faculty member sees will be exactly what the student sees. Faculty in Student Preview mode can even perform activities normally restricted to students, such as submit quizzes or assignments. To exit...
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...
Update May 13, 2014: IDS has released a tool for Windows which automates the process of associating JNLP files with Java. Click here to download the JNLP Fix tool. When the program has finished downloading, click run or double-click the “jnlp-fix” program icon to start the process. The “jnlp-fix” program can be deleted once the process is complete. If you run the program and JNLP files still do not open with Java, please follow the steps below to fix the problem...
