ITSpotlight is designed to keep the campus up to date on ITS activities and services.
New Inline Grading Option for Blackboard Assignments
Posted October 24, 2017
By: Laura Million
Blackboard has upgraded the Assignment tool to include inline grading. Inline grading allows you to comment directly on a student's paper in Blackboard. You will no longer have to download a student's paper, mark it up, and upload back to Blackboard. If you use Turnitin, you will be familiar with the feature.
See the Knowledge Base article "Grade a Blackboard Assignment" for more details.
.........................................................
2017 Teaching with Technology Award Winner Announced
Posted October 06, 2017
By: Matt Schmitz
Dr. Susanne James has been recognized as the winner of the 2017 Teaching with Technology Award. The award is part of the annual Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference hosted by the University of Missouri-St. Louis. It recognizes faculty who have used pedagogy or technology in innovative or effective ways in the traditional, hybrid, or online classroom.
Dr. James, an associate professor in the Teaching and Learning Department in the SIUE School of Health, Educatio...
.........................................................
Blackboard’s Retention Center Helps Faculty Identify At-Risk Students
Posted October 06, 2017
By: Laura Million
Midterm is approaching fast. Do you know how your students are doing? Are they all handing in their assignments on time? Are they logging into Blackboard to check course materials?
The Retention Center provides you an opportunity to recognize "at-risk" students. The main table displays:
-
Missed Deadlines - The alert is based on a defined due date for an assignment, test, or survey. Late submissions trigger an alert based on the option...
.........................................................
Follow ITS on Twitter
Posted October 06, 2017
Are you a Twitter user? Follow @siueits for training announcements, tech updates, teaching strategies, course design, and more.
.........................................................
ITS System Status Tool Alerts You to Outages
Posted October 06, 2017
By: Jeff Price
Have you ever wondered if the system you are trying to use is down for everyone or if it is just your computer? With this scenario in mind, ITS is happy to announce the launch of our new systems status page. This new addition will help the University community track outages, performance issues, and scheduled maintenance of the systems that impact them the most.
The page, located at https://status.siue.edu, uses a simple coding system which shows ...
.........................................................
SIUE Faculty Uses Web Timeline to Enhance History Course
Posted October 06, 2017
By: Niki Glick
Steve Tamari, professor of historical studies at SIUE, needed a tool to allow his students to build an interactive timeline for his class on World History Since 1500 CE. The project, called "The World and Me," requires students to think about how their lives intersect with the modern world history they are studying. This "intersection of histories" could be in relation to a variety of personal experiences, such as the student's family, hometown, or hobbies. Dr. ...
.........................................................