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Blackboard Training Sessions are available at the Main Campus, PCC and TEC for the month of August. Available training sessions: Blackboard Open Labs Adding Content in Blackboard Using the Grade Center in Blackboard SafeAssign in Blackboard Ally accessibility tool in Blackboard To sign up and view more information, head to the Training page.
Online Education Services is pleased to present to inform you of a new tool for Blackboard
Blackboard Training Outpost Sessions now available at the PCC and TEC campuses for the month of April. To sign up and view more information, head to the Training page.
As you may recall, the tool used by Blackboard for Inline Grading was discontinued by the company that owned it (Box). Instead, they have introduced the use of BoxView into the Blackboard Assignment tool. Below is a new video on how to grade with BoxView. Creating Assignment will remain the same. The only changes will be in…
OES has a regular maintenance window set for December 21, 2017. During this time there will be multiple updates and patches applied. There will be a downtime of approximately 8 -12 hours and should begin in the early morning hours and may extend into the early afternoon. This list reflects some of the upcoming updates that…
Blackboard Instructor is a mobile app that enables you to view course content, connect with students in discussions, and interact with your class in Blackboard. The app is available on iOS and Android mobile devices. Download it today! How to locate, install, and log in The Blackboard Instructor app is available on iOS and Android…
Blackboard has informed us that the company Box which purchased Crocodoc in 2013, the inline grading feature in the Assignment tool, is eliminating the product in the 2017 Quarter 4 update of Blackboard. Box (a cloud based content storage platform), is working with Blackboard to maintain the inline grading feature that Crocodoc has provided. They anticipate that the…
Last Fall, KCKCC elected to change its quality assurance rubric model from Quality Matters, Inc. to another model that might better fit our institution. Through our collaboration with the Kansas City Regional Access Consortium for Higher Education (KCREACHE) we began the process of moving to the Open SUNY Course Quality Review (OSCQR) rubric. The Online…
The newest Blackboard features is the ability to drag and drop attachments to your Blackboard assignments, discussions, and item pages. You can add files, images, audio, and video when you create content in your course. For example, in discussions, you can browse for a media clip from your computer or your course’s file repository, or the Content Collection.
