We have recently launched the Nearpod LTI tool in Blackboard, which means you can now launch a live or student-paced lesson directly from Blackboard. There is no need to share the Nearpod site link or lesson code with your students. Everything is done from within Blackboard and your students’ full names are automatically populated in the

Nearpod’s quiz tool is a great way to introduce formative assessments into your class and now it is a great way to introduce some friendly competition as well. Time to Climb is a new tool introduced this week by Nearpod and it allows students to compare their progress with others while working through a quiz. There are

Embedding a PowerPoint presentation into your Blackboard course provides the students with a more visually appealing course design. It is also the easiest way to share updates to the presentation with your students since any changes made will automatically be updated in the presentation in your Blackboard course. This makes it the most efficient way

  The Blackboard Grade Center is a very powerful tool that can help save instructor time. For example, in many courses the average quiz grade is calculated based on the best 3 out 4 quiz scores. Instructors can create a column in Blackboard that will calculate this average automatically for them. So, there is no

​The Microsoft Educator Community is a great site where you can take courses, earn badges, connect with other educators or find lessons to use in your class. Some of the recommended courses are: Teaching with Technology Basics 21st Century Learning Design Microsoft in Education​ Currently, the Teaching with Technology team is looking to add some of the

If you miss the January webinar on how to add interactive elements to videos, you can watch it in the video below.