Supporting faculty and teaching staff’s use of instructional technologies at Northern Illinois University is one the major functions of the Faculty Development and Instructional Design
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Blackboard Tool Spotlight: Date Management, for efficiently updating Availability and Due Dates
With so many features in Blackboard, it can be easy to miss that one tool which could save you hours of work. If you’ve ever
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New Features for Combined Courses in Blackboard
Wrapped into the new, faster course request process are a few feature enhancements for those teaching a Master Course in Blackboard. Now when combining student
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Trends in Blackboard Tool Usage at NIU – 2016
Blackboard Learn, the primary course management system used by faculty, staff, teaching assistants, and students at NIU, continues to be an important platform for facilitating
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Review of Classroom Response Systems Complete
From the end of March through mid-April 2016, faculty and staff from Northern Illinois University participated in a review of five classroom response (“clicker”) systems,
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Five years ago, at the request of faculty and teaching staff, the Faculty Development and Instructional Design Center facilitated a search for classroom response (“clicker”)
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