Archive for the ‘Blackboard’ Category

Bb Tip: Get Student Feedback Quickly!

August 28th, 2008 by Haiyan Zhou

http://blackboard.duke.edu/help/addsurvey.html

Get student feedback quickly using the Blackboard survey tool. Create polls to find student interests and opinions, create evaluations of materials or teaching approaches that you try, and gauge student comprehension of course material when anonymity is important. Surveys do not have correct answers or point values and all information is anonymous. Checking out the link above to learn how to create a survey, make your survey available for your students, and view your survey results.

To explore and discover additional Blackboard features, see the Blackboard support website (http://blackboard.duke.edu/) If you need a tutorial for the Blackboard survey tool, request an office visit (http://blackboard.duke.edu/forms/officevisit_begin.do) and we will come to you.

Bb Tip: Easy Way to Access Library Resources Off-campus

July 30th, 2008 by Haiyan Zhou

EZProxy allows you to use your Duke NetID to access library resources, especially online articles and databases, from off-campus without having to download any software. Check out the link below for the general process used to link to library resources directly from Blackboard:

http://blackboard.duke.edu/help/link_library_resources.html.

To explore and discover additional Blackboard features, see the Blackboard support website (http://blackboard.duke.edu/) If you need a tutorial for adding web links in Blackboard, request an office visit (http://blackboard.duke.edu/forms/officevisit_begin.do) and we will come to you.

Are You Feeling Lucky, Edupunk?

June 3rd, 2008 by Neal Caidin

Edupunk, a term coined by Jim Groom of University of Mary Washington, appears to be about having a do-it-yourself (DIY) attitude towards the use of technology in teaching and learning.  Learning Management Systems (LMS) like Blackboard, make creating a course web site incredibly easy, but is easy necessarily good?

Here is the short article from the Chronicle of Higher Ed

We especially invite comments from members of the Duke community.


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