Previewing online assessments before releasing them to students is a very important step with no doubt. It verifies that assessment settings, security settings, and correct answer choices are configured correctly. It also verifies the display of various question types, particularly those with images/equations. Below are 4 recommendations to consider when previewing online assessments in Blackboard.

Today’s teachers have a number of tasks that were not necessarily part of their domain years ago. Often, one of those tasks is designing courses, which some teachers can find overwhelming. A few weeks ago, a faculty member asked for some guidance, saying, “I’m not an instructional designer; how am I supposed to know how to create

Teachers can easily create personalised banners for their Blackboard Courses.  You don’t need to use advanced graphics tools to design banners for your courses in Blackboard Learn.  The following post shows you how to quickly and easily create your own course banner.   What you need: 1. PowerPoint 2. Blackboard   If you know how

Here’s a collated list of useful resources to help educators and students in their use of Blackboard Learn:                

  The Ed Tech Innovations team has mapped these desirable teaching and learning practices onto HCT’s LMS tools (Bb Vista 8 and/or Bb Learn 9.1) to demonstrate the potential of the VLE to enhance teaching and learning practices.   The following examples of good academic practice using e-learning are outlined below to support Policies 3.1,

Migrations from Vista to Learn 9.1 will happen starting September 2012, to be completed by January 2013. Here are some quick directions on migrating your course from Bb Vista on over to Blackboard Learn 9.1.   Find your course in VISTA (http://bbvista.hct.ac.ae) In the Course Manager of your course choose ->Backup ->Backup your course. Refresh

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