I was starting to set up my Blackboard course for next semester and I thought it might be good for me to take you through how I set up my Blackboard Grade Center before I open the course to my students. I recorded a series of four videos to take you through each step and I posted them below. Please let me know if there are any other videos you would like recorded on using the Grade Center and I can work on adding those to this list.
Click on the images below to watch each video.
In September 2021, Douglas College started a pilot project with Hypothesis to add their social annotation tool to Blackboard. Anyone with a Blackboard course can now add a Hypothesis document to your course and students can work together to annotate the text. This pilot project will continue until the end of the Winter 2022 semester.
To give you an overview of Hypothesis and how it can be used in your course, David Wright graciously offered to record a video with me to take us through how he has used it in his own classes.
If you are interested in learning how to add it to your course, here is a short video on how to do that in Blackboard.
More information on the Hypothesis pilot can be found on DC Connect.
If you want to share a Kaltura video outside of your Blackboard course, you will need to get a public link. Here is a video on how to find that public link to share with others.
If you are ever interested in how to create a QR code for any weblink, here is how you can do that.
With the changes to the Blackboard navigation, some faculty have mentioned they would like to open their courses up in a separate window or tab. Watch this short 2.5 minute video on how to do this.
Click on the image below to read the December 2021 Facilitating Faculty Online Newsletter.
You would have received a couple of messages recently about Blackboard Collaborate recordings. The summary is this:
With more and more students using Chromebooks to do their work, you may find they will need a little help with completing certain tasks. I recently purchased a Chromebook I can use to support you and your students as much as I can. I will create support document and videos whenever I find something that might be helpful to share. Here are two videos to get you started. I recorded these for students, so feel free to share the links to the videos with them.
Due to some issues with Kaltura, students may not be able to upload videos using Google Chrome. For regular desktop and laptop computers, this isn’t a real issue. With Chromebooks, there is a way to install the Android version of Firefox for most newer models.
Please let me know if you or your student have any questions about using Chromebooks for doing classwork or completing assignments.
One of my favourite tools in Microsoft Office 365 is Forms. I use it in my
courses, my committee work, and anywhere else I need to collect information from people. It is a straightforward tool to use and has only gotten better over the years.
One of the main complaints I have had with Forms is the lack of ability to organize forms into folders. Thankfully, Microsoft has listened to us and has added Collections to Microsoft Forms.
Click on the image above to learn more in this 4-minute video.
If you have ever wanted to download a copy of a video you have in My Media in Kaltura, this is how you can do that.
