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Creating Consistency in Course Sections with Ultra Templates
Templates available for course or department Ultra adoption
Since Fall 2018, the default Blackboard course template has had the Ultra Course Preview setting enabled, which allows faculty to convert a new Original course to see what it looks like in Ultra...
Posted: December 15, 2021, 1:55 PM
Tips for Choosing Instructional Technologies for a Course
Take Advantage of Approved LTI Tools in Blackboard
A wide range of technologies and resources are available to faculty at UMBC to support teaching and learning in various online or hybrid modes within Blackboard. Trends and tools evolve quickly,...
Posted: December 15, 2021, 8:45 AM
7 Tips to Wrap Up Your Blackboard Course for the Semester
Checklist to close out your course as the semester ends
Ease stress during the final weeks of your semester with our closing checklist. Leverage these Blackboard course tools to complete helpful and simple tasks for a successful semester conclusion....
Posted: December 7, 2021, 9:46 AM
Expanding PIVOT with Proactive Course Design Peer Reviews
Six faculty seek Quality Matters certification in UMBC pilot
By most accounts, UMBC’s PIVOT initiative has been considered a success in that 70 percent of all faculty participated, and 85% percent of students in PIVOT courses felt they were well organized...
Posted: November 9, 2021, 9:23 AM
National Distance Learning Week 2021 Lunchtime Series
Nov. 8-12, 2021: Teaching & Learning in a Hybrid World
One in four students take some of their courses online, and two-thirds do so at a public institution in the same state where they live (Allen, Seaman, Pouline, & Straut, 2016; Allen &...
Posted: October 28, 2021, 1:13 PM
Synchronize Bb groups in Collab breakout groups coming soon!
Maintain student learning between course & live sessions
Breakout groups are a powerful engagement tool for active learning in a synchronous session, providing private audio, video, whiteboard, application sharing, and chat for small group...
Posted: September 7, 2021, 11:59 AM
PIVOT Selected to Receive OLC Effective Practice Award
70% of faculty engaged in largest online learning initiative
The Online Learning Consortium announced that UMBC's Instructional Technology team has earned an Effective Practice Award for its Planning Instructional Variety for Online Teaching (PIVOT)...
Posted: August 24, 2021, 4:22 PM
PIVOT Courses Associated with Improved SEEQs and Tool Use
Faculty training to support empirically driven course design potentially represents one of the most scalable options available for improving student outcomes at an institution. One strategy to...
Posted: August 19, 2021, 3:58 PM
13 Tips to Get Your Blackboard Course Ready
Checklist to optimize your course before the semester starts
Prepare your Blackboard course shell for the new semester with our updated baker’s dozen checklist. 1. Review new tools & features in Blackboard. Our Blackboard site receives updates and...
Posted: August 17, 2021, 12:02 PM
Enhanced whiteboard tools coming to Collaborate in August
Draw freehand customize text & retain session annotations
A whiteboard is an important pedagogical tool to support handwritten expression and annotation, especially in a virtual classroom. Over the last year, Blackboard has been redesigning the...
Posted: August 2, 2021, 10:30 AM
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