Assessments, including assignments, tests, and informal knowledge checks, allow instructors to measure student learning in their classes. Many traditional assessments focus on auditing students’ knowledge, rather than enabling students to apply and expand their...

In a recent Harper survey, students reported experiencing some challenges while participating in group work. Due to the continued online format of most courses this term, as well as the true value of student collaboration, let’s discover ways to best plan our group...

We’re excited to announce a new tool called Ally that is now available in Blackboard. Ally provides you guidance on how to correct accessibility issues with your digital course content, which means your learning materials will work better on mobile phones and tablets...

To ensure that all students can access and learn appropriately from online instructional content and materials, including multimedia and videos, the access to transcripts and captioned videos is essential. This Academy for Teaching Excellence workshop will explore...

In this new, online environment, it is more important than ever that students and faculty take advantage of opportunities to communicate with one another, give and receive feedback, and work to ensure the voices of all students are heard. The Guided Mid-Semester...

An updated, easier-to-use, more powerful Content Editor has just been released to our Blackboard Server. There are lots of great reasons to like the updated Content Editor. Adding content has been simplified, and it works better on both hand-held devices and larger...