Over the last few years student use of various social networking sites and mobile technologies has grown exponentially. Realizing that students spend countless hours on Facebook, many organizations and educational institutions have started to seek ways of creating their own presence on social networks in an attempt to make relevant educational [...]

Sometimes, students need more than just their professors’ feedback. Students benefit from learning to assess their own work and from evaluating the work of their peers.
There are many benefits to self and peer assessment. The most obvious benefit to self assessment is that it encourages autonomy and independence in [...]

Wimba Pronto is an instant messaging application that allows audio and text conferencing. It is integrated into Blackboard and is automatically populated with a list of courses a user is enrolled in.
Some of the features of Wimba Pronto include:

voice conferencing
text messaging
group chat
automatic population of [...]

Beginning with Blackboard 8.0, the former Gradebook has been rebuilt and includes many new features for managing student grades and feedback. Here are a few timesaving tips for using the newest features in the Blackboard Grade Center.

Hide unnecessary columns
Blackboard by default adds several new columns to the the Grade Center, including: Username, [...]

NIU faculty you can now use the Blackboard Faculty Tools (BFT) to combine one or more course sections into a master course in Blackboard. By combining enrollments of related or cross-listed courses, you will save time by managing only one course in Blackboard.
The new master course functionality, which had been previously available only by request, [...]