Accessibility Quick Start
Accessibility benefits everyone—even you.
Read MoreAug 5, 2025 | Accessibility, Accessibility, Blackboard Ultra, How-Tos & Tutorials, Top TIPS
Accessibility benefits everyone—even you.
Read MoreAug 1, 2025 | Accessibility, Accessibility, Microsoft PowerPoint
Alt text is descriptive text that explains the meaning of an image so screen readers can convey it to users with visual impairments. Microsoft 365’s Accessibility Checker helps you find missing or unclear alt text, offers suggestions, and lets you edit or mark images as decorative. To use it, go to Review → Check Accessibility, then review and update any flagged images.
Read MoreJul 30, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, How-Tos & Tutorials
If you’ve come from another university that uses Canvas and want to import your content to Blackboard, this article will give you the steps to do that.
Read MoreJun 12, 2025 | How-Tos & Tutorials
There are a couple different ways to search the Schedule of Classes. There are links to these searches on the Registrar’s website. #1 – The Workday Student Schedule of Classes […]
Read MoreMay 30, 2025 | How-Tos & Tutorials
The Proctorio online authentication service allows you to verify your identity to create your University of Arkansas ID Card or Nursing badge. This process is only necessary if you are an off-campus student who is unable to come to campus to get a student ID card or if you are an off-campus student in need of a Nursing badge.
Read MoreMay 28, 2025 | How-Tos & Tutorials
Sometimes you might need to remove the requirement for Respondus Lockdown Browser from an exam. It’s easy to do in just a few steps.
Read MoreMay 23, 2025 | How-Tos & Tutorials
To talk about student classroom success, you must talk about objectives and outcomes. There are many similarities between objectives and outcomes. They are both written to be student-centered, measurable, specific,...
Read MoreMay 21, 2025 | How-Tos & Tutorials
We’re so glad that you find TIPS.uark.edu helpful! You may be thinking to yourself, am I allowed to use images and posts from TIPS in my work? We want you to know that sharing and referencing our posts and images is welcome — as long as you provide proper credit.
Read MoreMay 20, 2025 | Class
Class removes some of the difficulties of sharing video over a meeting tool. Each student’s device loads the video, so you don’t have to worry about the choppy playback that used to plague shared video on Zoom and Teams calls. You can choose whether or not they can start and stop the video at their own pace. Also, when you run a YouTube video within Class, you don’t have waste precious class time watching ads.Â
Read MoreMay 16, 2025 | Class, How-Tos & Tutorials
Class has a great feature where it syncs your content in Blackboard so that you can share it during a Class session. Let’s say you wanted to share a PowerPoint or even have your students take a quiz that’s in Blackboard during a session. You could do that and the students wouldn’t be able to see anyone else’s work.
Read MoreMay 15, 2025 | Class, How-Tos & Tutorials
If you want to record a session to share it with your students or colleagues, you can do it easily in Class.
Read MoreMay 15, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Class
The very first step in using class is joining the room.
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