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...
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...
