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Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Getting Started
Are you new to Blackboard Collaborate Ultra? The first things you need to do when using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra are to enable the tool, create a link to Collaborate Ultra in the menu and start a session. This will walk you through setting up Collaborate Ultra.
Creating Banners in Your Blackboard Course
Personalizing our Blackboard courses is a way to provide students with a unique online and educational experience. One way to personalize your Blackboard course is to add a picture or image (Banner) to the top of your course homepage or course entry point. Banners are also a useful way to indicate which course you are in which is especially helpful if you teach many courses a semester. Read on to learn how to personalize your course using the banner feature.
Kaltura: Create a Video Quiz from My Media
Using video or audio for interactive media quizzing is a useful pedagogical tool. Kaltura enables you to easily embed questions within your media, which allows you to test students’ engagement and understanding of the media’s objective.
Clickers: Channel Allocations Map
To prevent interference, individual classrooms on campus have been assigned unique clicker channels.
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Creating a Syllabus for Your Course
Creating a syllabus is an important part of teaching. The syllabus serves as a sort of contract between students and the instructor. It should clearly outline course requirements, expectations, and goals as well as include pertinent information regarding assignments, class and institutional policies, and grading. Crafting a useful and clear syllabus is an important skill. Luckily there are several well-accepted components of a syllabus that are common throughout most disciplines and universities.
Date Management Tool: Changing Due Dates and Availability for Multiple Items
When you copy a course from a previous semester, it is often time-consuming to go through and change the due dates or set the availability for assignments, blogs, journals, announcements, and other content items. The Date Management tool is a way to view and change all of the due dates and availability dates in a single place. Click here to understand the different options that the Date Management tool offers.
Clickers: Manual Edits
It may sometimes be necessary to manually edit a student’s grades. This could be because they forgot their clicker and you allowed them to take their quiz or on paper or because of some other set of extenuating circumstances. It’s important to manually edit these scores within the TurningPoint software itself as opposed to inside of Blackboard to prevent the changes you make being overwritten.
Clickers: Creating Your Presentations on a Mac and Presenting Them on a PC
While the Mac and PC versions of TurningPoint are very similar, there are a few little quirks you need to know if you will be creating your presentation on Mac and then presenting it on a PC.