Office of Academic Technology :: Spring Arbor University

OAT Trains in Kalamazoo

This past Friday, November 13, OAT staff traveled to the Kalamazoo site to train faculty on “Getting Started with Blackboard“.  Dave Goodrich joined Randy Meredith and Jason Archer to add an extra layer of support and ability.  This training was the third in a series of “OAT Roadtrips”, faculty training at regional sites.  The first [...]

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Clear Formatting Tip for Font Issue

Some have come across an issue in Blackboard 9 where they go to edit information in an item and the font shrinks to a smaller size. Blackboard is aware of this bug and is working on it, but this is a brief tutorial on a work-around at the moment for removing the formatting so that this does not happen.

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Blackboard 9 Course Menu Quick Tip

In this quick tip Blackboard 9 tutorial, you will be shown how to enable the folder view and toggle between the folder view, list view, displaying the course menu in a new window and using the refresh button within the course menu.

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Bb 9: Self & Peer Assessment

The Self and Peer Assessment tool enables students to review and evaluate work submitted by themselves or their peers. Using criteria specified by the instructor and optional sample responses, students can assign points and provide feedback on submitted assignments.   The following PDF downloads will help you get started with understanding how create and manage these.  [...]

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Bb 9: Scholar

Blackboard Scholar® is an educational social bookmarking service that enables students and faculty to store, share, and discover educationally valuable resources on the Web. You can bookmark your favorite Web sites and classify them with tags. These bookmarks are added to your personal list and the overall repository where others can see them. This enables [...]

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Bb 9: Safe Assign

SafeAssign is a valuable tool for encouraging original writing and proper citation practices within your course. SafeAssign compares your students’ work with previously submitted papers and published works from several databases  Once a paper is submitted in SafeAssign, a report is generated that indicates the percentage of the paper that matches existing sources. This overall [...]

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Bb 9: Keeping Students on Track

This workshop provides a hands-on introduction for the tools that help you to keep students on track. You will learn to customize the release of content, monitor student progress, and view course statistics. We will look at how to use the Adaptive Release, Review Status, Performance Dashboard, and Statistics tools. These tools play an important role [...]

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Bb 9: Grade Center

This workshop provides a comprehensive, hands-on introduction to the Grade Center tool.   You will first experience the student perspective by exploring the My Grades tool and becoming familiar with how grades will appear to your students. Then, turning to the instructor perspective, you will learn how to navigate the Grade Center and customize it to suit [...]

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Bb 9: Assessments Part 2

In this series of tutorials, you will be introduced to the advanced features and functions of assessments.  First, you will learn how to create advanced question types and add metadata to questions. Then, you will explore Pool Manager and learn how it can be used to create a database of questions that can be reused [...]

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Bb 9: Assessments Part 1

We will discuss best practices in online assessment, and explore how statistics can help evaluate the effectiveness of assessments.  These tutorials do not cover surveys. However, surveys are created and managed through the Survey Manager.  In the following tutorials, you will learn how to create, deploy, take, grade and review assessments in Blackboard.  The following [...]

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