Tag: Blackboard
myWPI Accessibility Series: Color and Contrast
How often do you think about the use of color in your myWPI course site content? Selecting colors with accessibility in mind will not only improve the experience for users with vision deficiencies like color blindness, but for all students using your course site. In today’s post, we’ll discuss a few ways you can modify […]
Spotlight on Student Engagement: Blackboard’s Retention Center
Have you wanted a simple way to track student performance in your course and identify students at risk? Then Retention Center in myWPI might be a useful tool for you. The Retention Center can monitor in real-time if students are at academic risk in your course based on criteria you define. There are 4 […]
Introducing the new myWPI BB Grader App for iPad
Blackboard released a new mobile app for iPad to allow grading on the go for myWPI! Download the new BB Grader App on your iPad to provide annotated feedback to your students via inline grading. Now use the commenting tool, highlighter, text selection tool, strikeout tool, and drawing tool provided all within the app on […]
Blackboard 9.1 Feature Spotlight: Discussion Board Enhancements
About Discussions The latest version of blackboard 9.1 brought with it several enhancements including a facelift in the Discussion Board. The Discussion Board has all of the old features we know and love with an all new interface! According to Blackboard: Highlights include: All posts on one page – all of the posts in a […]
That’s What We Are Here For!
Yesterday I had one of what we call our “great meetings”. I met with two faculty (don’t worry, they shall not be named here) who identified some of their teaching challenges. We spent our time discussing the following topics: 1. Grading multiple choice exams. How can we cut down on grading time while also gathering […]
New Resource! Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series
Blackboard, the software behind myWPI, has hosted a series of webinars over the past few months focused on how to best use the tool for teaching. The series is now available on YouTube: Click HERE! These recordings are hosted by a variety of individuals, including Blackboard experts and faculty. The topics vary from “Best Practices […]
Self and Peer Assessment: Feedback on Group Work
I’m not kidding when I say that three faculty members have approached us very recently with a similar teaching challenge: How can I use technology to help with team assessment? And here in the TTL group, we LOVE a challenge. Each professor has slightly different needs, however all centered around the desire for students in […]
Blackboard 9.1 Feature Spotlight: Spaces
You’ve set up your profile in the brand-new release of Blackboard. Great! Now, what are you going to do with it? One option is to set up a “Space”, which is essentially a tiny social organization with very basic features. Anyone can create a space if they have a Blackboard account—it doesn’t matter if you’re […]
Why is Blackboard trying to talk to Facebook (or Twitter)????
On Friday, January 4th, WPI upgraded our Blackboard 9.1 server to the latest release (Release 9.1, Service Pack 10 for those that prefer specifics). We’ll be highlighting some of the new features included in this release over several new posts here on the Technology for Teaching and Learning blog, however, we want to address the number 1 […]
The online quiz feedback conundrum
Giving feedback to students taking online quizes can be tricky. While it is very easy to provide feedback to students immediately this is not always desirable; sometimes you want to wait until after the quiz is over to provide feedback to only those students who took the quiz. In the past this was a fairly manual process, but […]
