by Christina Sabo | Aug 10, 2020 | Blackboard, Featured, Features, Guides, Online
Learning Technologies has four full-time instructional designers on staff and here to help you. But help you do what? We realize that it might not always be clear just what instructional designers do or how they can help you design and deliver your course content....
by Christina Sabo | Jun 15, 2020 | Featured, Features, Guides, Video
With instruction being online for the summer and online and hybrid for the fall, it’s never been more important to create video content for your students. Of course, for those who don’t usually create videos for their courses, this may not be a straightforward...
by Christina Sabo | Mar 27, 2019 | Featured, Guides, Tech to Try
Google Hangouts is an amazing tool for keeping in touch with groups of people with a shared interest–students, colleagues, or even a professional network. Unfortunately, Google plans to phase out the platform by October of 2019. So what can you use in its place?...
by Christina Sabo | Jan 23, 2018 | Featured, Guides
With the most recent census data reporting that nearly one fifth (19.7%) of Americans have some kind of disability, accessibility is an issue that colleges and universities, and the instructors that work in them, can’t afford to ignore. That said, while accessibility...
by Christina Sabo | Mar 21, 2017 | Featured, Features, Guides
Not every course can or should be an online or hybrid course. However, that doesn’t mean that instructors can’t take advantage of the variety of teaching and learning opportunities afforded by the Web, and by extension, Blackboard. Here, you’ll learn...
by Christina Sabo | Jul 5, 2016 | Featured, Features, Guides
This is the final part in our series on giving online students feedback. This time around, we’ll discuss how you can make time for giving feedback and what you need to do to figure out where you can improve your feedback. Let’s get started! Making Time for...
