February 2022 FFO Newsletter (1.3)
Click on the image below to read the February 2022 Facilitating Faculty Online Newsletter.
Recording: Students Working Together with MS Office 365 and Blackboard
Thank you to everyone who was able to attend the session last Wednesday on Office 365 and Blackboard. The recording can be found by clicking the title slide above. The slides can be located here. Related resources: OneDrive Information​ Examples​ … Continued
Better Together: Partners in Learning​ – Call for presenters, facilitators, and panelists
Better Together: Partners in Learning​ May 2 to 6, 2022​ A College-wide themed week of learning and peer-sharing called Better Together: Partners in Learning is being organized by the Facilitating Faculty Online (FFO) and Academic Technology Services (ATS) Call for DC Presenters, Facilitators and Panelists​ Can … Continued
Setting up your Blackboard Grade Center
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 … Continued
How to use Hypothesis in your course
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 … Continued
Get a public link to a Kaltura video
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.
Create a QR code
If you are ever interested in how to create a QR code for any weblink, here is how you can do that.
Open your Blackboard course into a new browser tab
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.
December 2021 FFO Newsletter (1.2)
Click on the image below to read the December 2021 Facilitating Faculty Online Newsletter.
Downloading your Blackboard Collaborate recordings
You would have received a couple of messages recently about Blackboard Collaborate recordings. The summary is this: The amount of Collaborate recordings has exceeded the storage capacity we have with Blackboard and are being charged overage fees. Those fees are … Continued