by Christine Monnier | Dec 3, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Features, Guest Blogger, SaaS
As mentioned before, now that we are no longer self-hosting Blackboard but using SaaS, Blackboard can push new features all the time. There are two new things that are coming up very shortly that I wanted to highlight here. Fine-Tuning Your Discussion Parameters The...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 26, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Features, Guest Blogger
Christine’s gloating thought of the day that does not involve the LT department: I’ve always thought that the argument that yes, maybe, the current LLMs are bad but they will improve was not persuasive. The current models have already hoovered most data in...
by Christine Monnier | Aug 27, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Features, Guest Blogger
When the college decided to move to Blackboard Ultra, we expected a few benefits. One was that we would no longer experience the first day of the semester meltdown that we all so enjoyed when we were trying to show our courses to our students on the first day of...