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 | Sep 4, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
We need your help. As you know, we still have about 40% of faculty who have yet to migrate to Ultra. We are still trying to avoid a stampede at the end of the semester and the beginning of Spring 2026. And yet, at the Open Labs, we are starting to see adjuncts who are...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 2, 2025 | Accessibility, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
No, PDFs are not dead You may have seen some communication urging people to stop using PDFs for accessibility reasons. It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Let me review different situations and what you can do so that your documents are accessible. The worst-case...
by Christine Monnier | Aug 28, 2025 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Disclaimer the first: The following post reflects my position and my position only. It does not involve the office of Learning Technologies in any way. Disclaimer the second: When discussing AI, I am mostly talking about LLMs, not all forms of automation. Disclaimer...
by Christine Monnier | Aug 26, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
That is, the 40% among you who haven’t yet switched to Ultra. As Michelle Whitman noted at kick-off, don’t wait until Winter break to get going. It would be really great to avoid a stampede at the end of Fall or the beginning of Spring, as that would...
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...
