by Christina Sabo | Mar 27, 2020 | Blackboard, Collaborate Ultra, Featured
Internet bandwidth is a hot commodity right now as anyone who can is working and/or learning remotely. As a result, many web conferencing tools, including Blackboard Collaborate, are experiencing issues with lagging and poor connections. Adding to this, many students...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 26, 2020 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Anyone who follows the current pedagogical discussions in higher education has encountered the vilification of the lecture. It’s pretentious (the much-reviled stereotype of the sage on stage), it’s boring, it’s passive, it’s anti-learning....
by Christine Monnier | Mar 23, 2020 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Collaborate Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
With this post, I want to show you one more awesome thing about YuJa (in addition to adding quizzes in videos, and syncing that with the Blackboard gradebook. YuJa does the captioning for you. That’s it. That’s the post. Let me show you how. First, log in...
by Christina Sabo | Mar 16, 2020 | Blackboard, Collaborate Ultra, Events, Featured, News, Qwickly
We will be adding links to the recordings of each of the topics covered by our online sessions here. If you don’t see the session you’re interested in, please check back later– we are still in the process of recording. Blackboard Collaborate Ultra...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 14, 2020 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Collaborate Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
First off, we’re all stressed out, and this Tik Tok of Gloria Gaynor washing her hands for 19 seconds while singing I Will Survive is EVERYTHING. Don’t say I never give you anything nice. [Tik Tok is generally bad but every once in a while, there’s a...
by Christina Sabo | Mar 13, 2020 | Blackboard, Collaborate Ultra, Events, Featured
Over the next week, we’ll be offering a range of workshops both online and in person to help you adapt your courses for remote delivery. Today (March 13th) we are offering a couple of sessions in-person and one online webinar, which will be recorded. ...
