Grade Student Work with Bb Annotate
Blackboard will soon be replacing the Box View inline grading tool with a new tool called Bb Annotate. Bb Annotate offers a more robust feature set for instructors to provide customizable feedback to students when grading assignment submissions. Features include a...
Updated Links for the Library’s Chat Service
Submitted by the Harper College Library The Library is updating our online reference services! Synchronous chat is still available 24/7, provided by Harper librarians during our regular hours and librarians at partner schools after hours, including during the summer...
Harper’s Library Staff is Here to Help Improve Students’ Information Literacy Skills
Submitted by Jennifer Lau-Bond, Library Services Every year, Harper assesses one of the General Education Learning Outcomes, and this year that means assessing information literacy. Since information literacy is one of the Library’s primary goals, we would like to...
Summer 2020 Resources
Two new resources are available for you as your prepare your Summer 2020 courses: Summer Course Template The Academy has created a Summer 2020 Blackboard Course Template to help faculty with the online transition for the Summer 2020 semester. Using this template is...
Getting Ready for Finals: Online Testing and Alternative Assessments
As we approach the end of the spring semester, many faculty are wondering about the best way to deploy or adapt their final exams in a way that allows them to evaluate student learning while being flexible and understanding of the difficult situation that many of our...
Online Testing and Alternative Assessments
Administering exams in a fully online class presents several challenges. Should I set time limits? How do I meet student accommodations? How can I ensure academic integrity? Will my students be able to “show their work” on a Blackboard exam? In some cases, this may be...