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Colour Me Impressed?
Synopsis Sharing a new approach for consistent and accessible Blackboard course menu colour schemes specific to faculties, departments, or subject areas.
How can I improve the accessibility of my emails?
I recently attended AbilityNet's TechShare Pro 2020 conference. In this post, I'm going to share a top tip I learned from Microsoft.
Should you use Significant Figures or Decimal Places when setting Answer Set options for Calculated Formula questions in Blackboard?
Blackboard tests are a hot topic at the moment. I recently recently received a question from Dr Gabriel Weymouth : "I'm positive this is clearly documented somewhere, but I can't find it. How do you make BB apply the correct error margins for calculated formula problems. The logical way of doing it (setting a, say, 2% margin) doesn't work:"
Virtual backgrounds when creating PowerPoint Recordings
For recorded lectures and presentations, some instructors prefer to create narrated PowerPoint files.
Using the Blackboard 'Self and Peer Assessment' tool with groups
On the CHEP Community Team Dr Poshak Gandhi asked, "My module has 170 students, split into 4 groups of about 42 students each.I want to create an assignment for peer assessment, with each group having a separate submission deadline. I don't see the group-wise submission deadline option on the peer assessment page (see attached screenshot). How do I implement this? Am I missing something? Thanks." Poshak Gandhi: Dear all in General, Question on Groups and Peer Assessments in B… posted in CHEP Community / General at Oct 5, 2020 12:59 PM So, I have spent some time looking into this and here are the results of my testing.