Providing Quality Feedback in Blackboard
You want to provide quality feedback to your students, but typing specific comments is both time consuming and exhausting. It would be so much easier to have a quick conversation with each student about their performance, but as impractical as that was before the...
CFC Open Training Sessions
In order to practice social distancing and safety precautions, the CFC will be operating by appointment only. No walk-in hours will be available until further notice. We are here to partner with you, help answer your questions and find solutions that will work in this...
Blackboard Webinar Training Series: Remote Instruction from Basics to Advanced
As many educators are looking to advance their confidence and effectiveness with the tools of remote instruction, Blackboard is continuing to offer both a series of free webinars and “ask the expert” open office hours. The sessions are all designed to help you get...
Fall Preparation: Blackboard Offers Webinar Training Sessions
In preparation for the fall semester, the CFC is encouraging all instructors who are not familiar with Blackboard or who want to expand their use of it to take advantage of these online training sessions offered by Blackboard. Due to increased demand for our...
LMS Team Adds Accessibility Aid to Help Prepare for Fall 2020
If you have been in your Blackboard courses in June, you may have noticed that there are additional icons that appear in the instructor view and in the student view. We’ve added a tool called “Ally” to Blackboard Learn. This tool gives two different sorts of...
Let’s Get Ready for Summer! Moving Rapidly to Remote Instruction
We want to give a huge shout out to all instructors who made the shift to remote instruction with lightning speed so we could finish out the spring semester! As the parent of a graduating senior, I am so appreciative of everything you are doing so all of our students...
LMS Governance Committee Recommends Avoiding Online Proctoring Solutions
The LMS Team have had several requests to launch online proctoring tools. We researched the issue and presented the options to the LMS Governance Committee. The committee, after consideration of the market leader, Respondus, put forward the following recommendations...
Prepping for Finals Workshops This Week
The end of the semester is quickly approaching and these challenging times require that we rethink our final assessments. The CFC team is here with four different workshops that will help you rework your assessment for the online environment.
CFC Open Sessions for Online Design and Blackboard
Open Help Sessions for All Instructors The CFC is hosting additional open sessions for all instructors to learn how to effectively facilitate online learning and engage students using Blackboard and its general suite of tools. We will be offering these sessions...
Communicating and Engaging With Your Students
We encourage maximizing asynchronous communication for almost everything. There are many great ways to use Blackboard Collaborate (or Zoom) for limited real-time communication. Here are some standard best practices (tried and true from more than 20 years of online...