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Synopsis Sharing a new approach for consistent and accessible Blackboard course menu colour schemes specific to faculties, departments, or subject areas.

I recently attended AbilityNet's TechShare Pro 2020 conference. In this post, I'm going to share a top tip I learned from Microsoft.

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:"

For recorded lectures and presentations, some instructors prefer to create   narrated PowerPoint files.

 

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.

 

Recently I was asked to do a workshop to introduce a department to Collaborate.  When I asked what they wanted to cover the list kept getting longer and longer.  So rather than spend the time doing live demos I built on some slides that Amy Eyre  had shared some time ago, and in the spirit of the community I'm sharing these back.  I also have a few examples for ice-breakers that I used.

As we move to SaaS soon I had to update our theme work to be compatible with the latest SaaS version. So this means I have a nice freshly compiled version to share.  The previously shared version had been lost in the transfer to the new Blackboard Community Site. This explains why I now back up all new posts to both this blog as well as posting on the community site.  A lack of time means that right now I cannot share screenshots of how the new additions to the theme look, but I am providing the source code below so you can experiment with copying and pasting them into Stylus easily, without having to unzip the theme. You can get a good idea of how it all looks by referring to my post: Let me show you my Blackboard . Watch this video for a guide on how to try the theme out without having to install it: Note that the improvement to Review Status required me to apply a separate CSS just for instructors. In Blackboard the review status button has a double purpose when maki...