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Category: Technology Trends

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Engaging Students in Asynchronous Lessons: Kaltura Quizzes

May 11, 2020 Megan Holt Best Practices, Teaching, Technology Trends, Tips

At a structural level, we understand that online courses are inherently different than their face-to-face counterparts. Faculty teaching online courses cannot rely on visual cues,

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Create Microsoft Teams Meetings from Within Blackboard

May 6, 2020 Stephanie Richter News, Technology Trends

Blackboard has recently released an integration with Microsoft Teams that allows you to quickly create Teams Meetings from within Blackboard. Ultra Course View Under Details

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Introducing Bb Annotate: A Brand New Tool for Providing Feedback on Assignments in Blackboard

May 5, 2020 CITL News, Teaching, Technology Trends, Web Tools

We are excited to announce the launch of a new tool called Bb Annotate! Blackboard developed Bb Annotate in response to client feedback on the

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Getting Started with Blackboard Collaborate

April 28, 2020 Amanda Smothers Teaching, Technology Trends, Web Tools

If you are short on time but need some quick instructions for features of Blackboard Collaborate sessions, this guide should help you get started. Sharing

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Humanizing Online Courses to Connect Students, Instructor, and Content

October 25, 2019 Dan Cabrera Best Practices, Newsletter, Teaching, Technology Trends, Videos

Encouraging a sense of community and building relationships are common goals in both face-to-face and online courses. These goals might be especially important in an

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Blackboard Attendance Tracker

May 2018 Blackboard Learn Upgrade – New Features and Cloud Migration

April 13, 2018 Stephanie Richter News, Technology Trends

This May, NIU’s instance of Blackboard Learn will be updated to the latest version and will be migrated from NIU’s data center to Blackboard’s cloud-hosted

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Did You Know….? Accessing a Portal to Blackboard Collaborate

April 3, 2018 Dan Cabrera Newsletter, Resources, Technology Trends

NIU faculty and instructors rely on Blackboard Collaborate to conduct online web conferencing sessions with their students. However, did you know that you do not

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Blackboard Collaborate Ultra Adds Phone-Only Option

March 26, 2018 Dan Cabrera News, Newsletter, Technology Trends

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, the web-conferencing tool used to conduct live synchronous sessions, has gained many new features since it was first introduced. One of the

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Office 365 Groups – Tools to Facilitate Student Collaboration

November 10, 2017 Dan Cabrera Technology Trends

Student or group collaboration can be one of the most fulfilling learning activities university students can experience. Given that collaboration is the standard of practice

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Trends and Motivation for Blackboard Use at NIU

November 1, 2017 Peter Gowen Newsletter, Technology Trends

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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Using Lynda.com Courses in Your Teaching

October 31, 2017 Stephanie Richter Newsletter, Technology Trends

NIU has an institutional license for Lynda.com, a leading online learning platform with courses in business, software, technology, and creative skills. All NIU students, faculty, and

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Blackboard Tool Spotlight: Date Management, for efficiently updating Availability and Due Dates

September 26, 2017 Peter Gowen Newsletter, Technology Trends

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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