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...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 3, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Professional Development
So you’ve taken the Ultra training and everything. But now, you need the proverbial kick in the pants to actually get going on converting your own courses. Or you haven’t really updated your NET / VCM / HYB courses in a while, and you also need a...
by Christine Monnier | Dec 10, 2024 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Online Teaching, Professional Development, Training
I have been pestering y’all to move to Ultra and I will continue to do that until January 2026 when our conversion will be complete. So you have to look forward to a whole year of me being annoying about Ultra. However, one half of my faculty chair duties have...
by Christina Sabo | Nov 23, 2020 | Featured
Some students have taken to online learning like fish to water. For others, however, it’s been a bit of a struggle. Online learning isn’t the best fit for every student, and now that online is the only option some students may be seriously struggling in ways they...
by Christina Sabo | Oct 5, 2020 | Featured
Many students prefer taking online courses because they allow greater flexibility, especially during the pandemic, as many may now be balancing work and childcare with completing their course assignments in a way that they weren’t before. However, the pandemic...
