by Learning Tech Dev | Oct 6, 2026 | Blackboard Ultra, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Integrations, YuJa Lumina
Welcome back! This week I have put together three quick guides to help streamline your Blackboard environment, protect assessment integrity, and make video assignments far easier to manage. Here is what we are covering in this edition: GoReact vs. YuJa: Choosing...
by Christine Monnier | Jun 17, 2026 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Guest Blogger, Integrations, Qwickly
As you know, this post is part of a series highlighting the Qwickly Attendance Pro features that are now available to us. I already discussed the basic set up in a past post. And in my latest post, I featured the use of a QR code to take attendance. In this post,...
by Christine Monnier | May 13, 2026 | Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations, Qwickly
I have blogged about Qwickly Attendance before. I much prefer to use Qwickly for attendance than the native Blackboard tool for reasons explained in the blog post. Now, the college has gotten us a pro license for Qwickly, which means we get access to a bunch of...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 3, 2026 | Accessibility, Ally, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Guest Blogger, Integrations
But definitely use Ally. If you haven’t yet used the Ally accessibility dashboard, I strongly recommend you start ASAP and then start working on whatever remediation your courses and files need. I would always recommend starting with the most serious issues...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 23, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations
Christine cranky thought of the week that has nothing to do with the LT Department: Y’all should read the book Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism, by Amanda Montell (COD Library link). It is a very helpful book to “decode” the current discourse in a...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 17, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations
Christine note that has nothing to do with the LT office: did you guys read this article from the Chronicle of Higher Education? That’s what has made AI-generated text relatively easy to spot in student work. But, to me, so far, it was more like that saying from...
