Blackboard: What's New This Fall?

Blackboard: What’s New This Fall? In August, Blackboard's 2014 Spring Release was implemented and brought with it some significant and help new and modified features.  Some of the features include: <ul> <li> Student Preview (works like a virtual student with full access to all student actions in your course)</li> <li> Group Management (can export group settings)</li> <li> Date Management (can dynamically change all due dates with one date change or can change individually)</li> <li> Course Message Notifications (alert you when a new message is posted)</li> <li> Test Access Log (view details about a student's interaction with a test, particualrly when being "kicked out" is reported)</li> <li> Reusable Objects (create frequently used Blackboard items, assignments, assessments in  your content collection so that you can link to them without recreating for each course)</li> <li> Lynda.com (now in the mash-ups to search for Lynda courses directly from your course)</li> <li> Calculated Formula Questions (now allow significant numbers)</li> <li> Last but not Least - SafeAssign (Safe Assign is no longer an independent tool.  SafeAssign is integrated directly into the Assignment tool as a feature.  You can use in-line grading features!)</li> </ul> Come learn more in a hands-on workshop with staff from the Center for Learning and Teaching: When:  on Thursday, September 4 from 10am-noon Friday, September 5 from 10am-noon Where:  This workshop will be held at the CLT’s Faculty Development Lab, Gornto 101 and is available for participation via live two-way video at the Higher Education Centers. <div> To register:  Log in at <a href="http://clt.odu.edu/">http://clt.odu.edu</a> and use the teachODU module or click Events in the top navigation. </div>

Posted By: ALISON SCHOEW
Date: Thu Aug 28 16:32:51 EDT 2014