2020 landing page changes in Blackboard courses
All courses in Spring 2020 will have an abbreviated framework. If there is no content or no content has been copied from a previous course instructors will notice less items listed in the left menu and the course landing page will default to the "Announcements" The...
National Distance Learning Week
National Distance Learning Week! NDLW Webinars The series targets a broad scope of hot topics in distance learning – everything from accessibility to enrollment, assessment to professional development, and practices that support quality course offerings.Webinar...
Using the Panopto Recorder at WCU
It is best practice to access Panopto from a web browser to authenticate or through your course in Blackboard. *NOTE: By default students are not given creator access to Panopto to create videos, only viewer access. Download Instructions Do the following: Open a...
Audio Video Feedback in The Grade Center
Are you tired of pounding on a keyboard to give your students feedback on their assignments? Are you looking for a more natural way of telling your students how great or how poorly they are doing? Look no more because Blackboard has (finally) integrated voice (with...
Collaborate for Tutors
As tutors have student rights when added to a course, they will need to have at least Presenter rights in the Collaborate session. If they will need to be able to record sessions, they will need Moderator rights. The Default Attendee Role is set as follows. If you...
Blackboard Theme Upgrade
There is a New Theme With the 2019 Update, WCU's Blackboard environment was upgraded in many ways, but the main upgrades were: We moved from a non-device-responsive user experience "theme" to a theme that has been updated to work more effectively with mobile devices...
New User to Blackboard – Guide
The information provided in this post is to help new users to Blackboard get familiar with the Blackboard at WCU. Click here for Blackboard Help for Instructors Click here to register and try out Coursesites, the Blackboard experience. Coursesites is free, once...
Best Practice: Interactive Tools in Blackboard
Available tools in Blackboard To build a successful online community, students need the tools to interact and have conversations. Through conversation, we learn about each other, ourselves, the topic, how to get along, and make group decisions. Though time and...
Blackboard Moving to the Cloud
Special Warning: Systems/Tools that will not be available during this migration period: May 28 - May 31, 2019 Blackboard Learn Panopto - Users cannot view existing sessions or upload new recordings, but users can still record offline. Respondus - Users cannot...