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.
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
Send an email to everyone in your Blackboard course (Douglas College email address)
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. Click on the image below to watch the video (39 seconds).
Changing the start date of your Blackboard course
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 … Continued
LLPA Academic Integrity Blackboard Quiz and Interactive Modules
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 … Continued
Moving a Blackboard test, quiz, or test pool to another course
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. Click on the image below to watch the video.