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Blackboard Ultra: Learn the Lingo – Learning Modules

One of the things that you’ll notice as you transition to Ultra is that some of the features of Original have different names in Ultra. To reduce confusion over this new terminology, we have a summer series to help you learn the new lingo that comes along with the...

End of Year Recap and Summer Plans

As I finish this first year as Faculty Chair of Online Quality and Learning Technologies, I just thought I'd offer a recap of all the content I created over this academic year. The Foundations courses The very first thing I did was redesign entirely the LT course...

Do One Thing In Panorama: Get a Coursewide Accessibility Score

So far, my posts on Panorama have been about setting it up, and getting started on fixing individual items in a course. It's great, but sometimes, it's helpful to have a broad, bird's eye view of an entire course in terms of accessibility. Thankfully, YuJa Panorama...
So You Wanna Make Videos

So You Wanna Make Videos

That’s a good idea. There are lots of ways you can use videos to enhance your courses and there are a lot of different video types you can choose from. But where should you start? If it were me, I would start with a chat with Dan McCallum, from Learning Technologies....