Starting July 10, 2020, you will be able to request Blackboard courses for the fall semester for any course that starts the week of August
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Connecting with Students in Online Courses: Options for Virtual Office Hours
Office hours are an important component of any course. As we pivot to facilitating student learning online, we also need to shift how we think
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Inclusive Education: Tools and Techniques for Remote and Online Instruction
Inclusive teaching improves learning for all students, not just those with disabilities. The following resources compiled by Blackboard Ally can help you provide students with
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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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Did You Know…..? Ensuring the Blackboard Collaborate Recordings will be Processed and Easily Shared with Students
NIU faculty and instructors have been using Blackboard Collaborate, the web conferencing tool, to conduct live synchronous sessions for a number of years. One outstanding
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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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What’s New in Blackboard for Fall 2018?
This fall, there are a number of exciting new features and tools available in Blackboard, including Attendance tracking, the Respondus LockDown Browser, and VoiceThread. Read
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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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End of Semester Reminders in Blackboard
As the semester draws to a close, there are some final tasks you can take care of in Blackboard, to make your courses end successfully and
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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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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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