Blackboard Learn Ultra: Peer Assessments
The Blackboard Learn Ultra Peer Assessment tool allows students to review their peers’ work through criteria-based evaluation. It’s simple for instructors and students to use.
Read MorePosted by Anna Phillips | Jul 26, 2023 | Assignments, Blackboard Ultra
The Blackboard Learn Ultra Peer Assessment tool allows students to review their peers’ work through criteria-based evaluation. It’s simple for instructors and students to use.
Read MorePosted by Anna Phillips | Jul 21, 2023 | Blackboard Ultra, Grading
Fairness and impartiality in grading are often an institutional requirement or a concern. Parallel grading helps control bias among graders as much as possible.
Read MorePosted by Charini Urteaga | Jul 21, 2023 | Rubrics
When using the Rubric tool built into Blackboard Learn Original, you can keep them private to the instructor and use them just for grading, or you can allow the students to see the rubric before and after they complete an assignment.
Read MorePosted by Lesley Speller | Jul 21, 2023 | Tool Overview
There are many technologies available to instructors at the University of Arkansas that can both enhance and simplify teaching and learning.
Read MorePosted by Lesley Speller | Jun 29, 2023 | Blackboard Ultra, Interacting with Students
One concern that we often have in the remote or hybrid environment is how we keep students engaged in an online environment.
Read MorePosted by Lesley Speller | Jun 29, 2023 | Blackboard Ultra, Web Conferencing
Whether teaching remotely or in a hybrid environment, there are many ways that faculty can use web conferencing to their advantage. It can be used to engage students and encourage interaction among students and faculty as well as with each other. We have several tools available in the collaboration and web conferencing space. This post will explore which tools are best in which situations.
Read MorePosted by Lesley Speller | Jun 28, 2023 | Blackboard Ultra, TIPS Workshops
Understanding the various assessment ideas and strategies for remote and hybrid teaching can be difficult. We have many tools available for assessing students but determining the best types of assessments for your remote and/or hybrid class is key.
Read MorePosted by David Anderson | Jun 23, 2023 | Blackboard Ultra, Grade Center / Gradebook
There is a way to transfer your Blackboard grade center grades to UAConnect for easy upload for midterms and finals.
Read MorePosted by David Anderson | Jun 16, 2023 | Blackboard Ultra, Feedback
Bb Annotate offers a more robust feature set to provide customizable feedback to students. Features include a sidebar summary view, freehand drawing tools, various color selections, and much more.
Read MorePosted by Amalie Holland | Jun 13, 2023 | Interacting with Students
We might be back to something closer to business-as-usual, but the 2020 pivot to remote taught us a few things worth carrying forward and considering as we build new courses in the online space.
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