Cross – Listing – Quick Steps Click into parent course, copy the number from the end of the course’s URL from it’s home page. Click into child course, click settings, click sections, click the section name of course and select Cross – List on the right, enter the id number you just copied from parent. … Read more
This link will bring you to 20 but I thought these were pretty neat Grade rollbacks If you’ve made errors while entering grades (and who among us hasn’t accidentally found ourselves entering grades in the wrong column before?), the grade rollback feature might be your new best friend. In your gradebook, if you click on … Read more
Homepages can be chosen quickly via the Change Home Page option on the left after clicking Home from your course menu. After your initial welcome to the class you might create weekly “homepages” with links to what students will be doing. Search for Module Introduction Page with Flat Icons to import into your course via … Read more
Whether you are using Canvas for the first time or teaching a specific course for the first time this Spring in Canvas, here is a tip if you have archived content from Blackboard import it into one of your Sandbox Courses (you have 4) and then copy what you need into your Spring Course. Canvas … Read more
All faculty are enrolled in our Canvas Orientation course. In addition to being a training resource, we’re also using this course to communicate information about new features, special training events and other important updates. Be sure to enable course notifications so you’re in the know about Canvas. Today’s announcement – October 7 | 2:00pm-3:00pm | … Read more
Now to Canvas, Spring Courses are available to you when you login. You can easily export your BB content to Canvas. From the Continuity plan – “Attend Canvas Training and review Canvas Guides & Overview Videos. 2. Migrate your course to Canvas now. 3. Test the communication, web conferencing and recording tools. 4. Add a … Read more
An end and beginning of semester checklist can be found here. Canvas sessions will still be held next week in Joyner East 204 or set up a time with OET.
The Canvas team suggests that instructors make their empty BB course available and post a single announcement explaining that Canvas will be used for the fall and include the Canvas login URL https://ecu.instructure.com/ Join us in HSB 4415 for weekly Canvas Chats from 1:30 – 3:30 throughout Fall semester starting 8/9/19.
Time to learn some new tricks! Want to know if students have looked at something, click on the contextual arrow next to the item and enable Review. Advise students to check after reviewing this not only gives you an indication but also reminds students what they have opened and what still needs to be opened. … Read more
Tagging onto my colleague’s email today check out this new tool Qwickly “Qwickly allows faculty to make courses available, send emails, post announcements, and post content to multiple courses at once.” After logging into Blackboard click the Add Module option in the upper left corner and then scroll (it’s in alphabetic order) to “add” the … Read more
In case you forgot this is just a reminder that you now have the ability to check exactly what your students see when they are in your Blackboard course. You just click on this icon to get to this view. Here is a short video explaining more on this neat feature. Not sure about roles? … Read more
Organize Your Course and Students Using The New Blackboard Calendar Tool OCTOBER 22, 2014 BY CHRISTOPHER SHEEHAN 2 COMMENTS To be successful in online courses, students must quickly learn to be organized. In fact, organization is the key to a successful learning environment. Without organization, students quickly become derailed from the course timeline and must … Read more
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