Kym Jefferson

Saving Grades!

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As the end of the semester is just days away remember this notice from ITCS: From the Office of IT Security, please note: Activity: Download Gradebook in Blackboard Issue: Student (Course) Gradebook is downloaded from Blackboard onto desktops, laptops, personal home computers and other unencrypted devices. A lost or compromised device could result in unauthorized … Read more

Blackboard Purge!

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Blackboard administrators will be purging Summer 2009 and Spring 2010. The deadline to save your past courses is June 22nd, 2012.” http://blog.ecu.edu/sites/blackboard/blog/2012/05/08/notice-purging-old-courses-how-to-archive-your-courses/

Hopping on the Bandwagon!

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Not the Easter Bunny but joining my Blackboard Support colleagues in support of the new “Section Merge Tool” available to you. Now you can copy content to a specific course and then merge your sections to that same course.  You will also receive an email once the copy has taken place.  So no more wondering … Read more

Blogging In BB9!

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Many are trying one of Blackboard 9’s new features, Blogs so follows is an excerpt from a recent article regarding this tool!

5 Tips for Blogging

  1. Have a clear pedagogical purpose for incorporating blogs into the instruction, and clearly state the purpose and requirements of student blogging on the class syllabus. “Students need to see a purpose for the blog, and they need guidelines for entries and comments,” explains Stuart Glogoff, senior consultant in the Office of Instruction and Assessment at the University of Arizona. “In the cases where faculty have incorporated blogs without establishing their purpose, student participation has been uniformly low.”

  2. Blog contributions and comments should be a graded element of the course. “Your grade is your currency for your course,” explains Ruth Reynard, associate professor of

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Coming soon to a site near you!

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*First, the much-anticipated and popular notifications setting where announcements are sent to email will be enabled. * Secondly, you will have the option to have students’ exams auto-submitted once the time limit has been reached. * Thirdly, the rubrics tool has been enhanced so you will be able to grade from the rubric and your … Read more

Answer keyed wrong!!!

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Yikes the test has been deployed, half the students have taken it and you realize one of the answers was keyed wrong.  In Blackboard 9 you DON’T have to go into each test one at a time to search and correct the question.  Click on the arrows next to the test name in Grade Center, … Read more

RSS Feeds in Blackboard

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Check out the opening page in the Allied Health Blackboard Course.  I have added RSS feeds, click on the RSS menu item to find out how to add this neat feature to your course.  Or contact our office for assistance.

TP & BB!

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Did you know there is a Turning Point (clicker software) plug in for Blackboard 9 which lets students automatically register their clickers directly into Blackboard.  Students register once and registration is imported into all classed there are currently taking.  Faculty can then export the student list from Turning Point and incorporate “clicker sesssions” directly into … Read more

Now or never . . .

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Mid-July, so hot, so humid so . . . . Why not take your mind off the heat and look at your Fall Courses in Blackboard 9!  Things will look a bit different, terms have changed, lots more arrows and two submits! Our office has weekly trainings as does ITCS.  We have also created a … Read more

Blackboard Mobile!

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Blackboard 9 is available on your mobile device via Blackboard Mobile Learn all you need do is download it from the app store you use.  Blackboard Mobile Learn allows students and instructors to interact with Blackboard on their Android, Blackberry, iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad device so make sure you download the correct version.  Click … Read more

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