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
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
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
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
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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May 2018 Blackboard Learn Upgrade – New Features and Cloud Migration
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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