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.
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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.
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:
To email everyone in your course, you can use the email function within Blackboard. It will email your students using their Douglas College email address.
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By default, students will only be able to access your Blackboard course on the first day of the new semester. You may want to make your course available to students before the first day of classes. If you do, here is how you do that.
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The LLPA Academic Integrity Committee came up with a number of scenarios that are related to the different areas within LLPA. Each of these scenarios has been turned into Blackboard quiz and also some interactive elements that can be added to your Blackboard course.
Here is one example scenario that has been turned into an interactive element:
If you are wanting to use the Blackboard quiz or the interactive elements, you can find the files along with the instructions on the LLPA Blackboard Site under Additional Material. There are videos there to give you an overview of the resources along with instructions on how to install them.
Please let me know if you use these resources along with comments on how we can improve them.
Thank you.
If you have created a test or quiz in one course and want to move it to another course in Blackboard, here is how you can do that.
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