by Christine Monnier | May 13, 2026 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations, Qwickly
I have blogged about Qwickly Attendance before. I much prefer to use Qwickly for attendance than the native Blackboard tool for reasons explained in the blog post. Now, the college has gotten us a pro license for Qwickly, which means we get access to a bunch of...
by Christine Monnier | Apr 21, 2026 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger
As you all know, at our last kick-off events, the President told us that the college was going to bring an AI tool that both we and our students would be able to use, presumably, an enterprise product. You all know my thoughts on AI (specifically LLMs). I have laid...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 3, 2026 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Guest Blogger, Integrations
But definitely use Ally. If you haven’t yet used the Ally accessibility dashboard, I strongly recommend you start ASAP and then start working on whatever remediation your courses and files need. I would always recommend starting with the most serious issues...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 23, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations
Christine cranky thought of the week that has nothing to do with the LT Department: Y’all should read the book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, by Amanda Montell (COD Library link). It is a very helpful book to “decode” the current discourse in a...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 9, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Events, Featured, Guest Blogger, Professional Development
Come read with me the recently published The Opposite of Cheating – Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI. The seminar will consist of four one-hour sessions on Zoom, starting in October, on Thursdays (10/2, 10/9, 10/16, and 10/23), from 3:30 to 4:30pm. The...
by Christine Monnier | May 20, 2025 | Accessibility, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Panorama, Qwickly, YuJa
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...
