by Christina Sabo | Mar 16, 2021 | Blackboard, Featured
Blackboard has some really great built-in communication tools that allow you to easily send out information to all of your students at once or just a select few. We’re going to showcase a couple of these tools here including: announcements and email. We’ll explain...
by Christina Sabo | Mar 9, 2021 | Featured, Online, Webconferencing
When courses are online it’s not just the course content and meetings that are virtual– office hours are, too. If you’re new to hosting online office hours, it can be useful to get some tips on making personal connections with students in the online setting and...
by Christina Sabo | Mar 2, 2021 | Featured, Tech to Try
One of the newer Blackboard integrations here at College of DuPage is Perusall. Perusall is a tool that helps students more efficiently and effectively complete their reading assignments for your course. It allows them to ask questions, motivates them to complete...
by Christina Sabo | Feb 25, 2021 | Featured, Online
One of the most important elements of a successful online course is developing a strong sense of instructor presence. However, while that’s easy to say, it’s not always so easy to actually do, especially if you’re new to teaching online. While our Foundations of...
by Christina Sabo | Feb 23, 2021 | Featured, Webconferencing
Breakout rooms in both Zoom and Collaborate allow you to create smaller subgroups within your session that are perfect for small group work, discussions, or meeting with students one-on-one before returning to the larger group. The ability to create these smaller...
by Christina Sabo | Feb 9, 2021 | Blackboard, Featured
Sometimes, using the LMS (in our case Blackboard) can be frustrating. There may not be features you want or feel like you need. Maybe your institution has them, but they’re not set up. Maybe they don’t exist in your particular LMS at all. Maybe you’ve used another LMS...
