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Blackboard: End-of-Semester Activities for Faculty
Posted November 28, 2017
The following are suggested end-of-semester activities for faculty using Blackboard. Please contact ITS for questions or assistance at 618-650-5500.
- Check your Grade Center Total and/or Weighted Total column(s) to be sure they are set up to calculate correctly.
- The Mercer University Online Weighted Average Grade Calculator is a useful tool for checking your Weighted Total calculations. If you find errors and need assistance, please contact ITS at 618-650-5500 or at help@siue.edu.
... - The Mercer University Online Weighted Average Grade Calculator is a useful tool for checking your Weighted Total calculations. If you find errors and need assistance, please contact ITS at 618-650-5500 or at help@siue.edu.
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Omeka Authoring System Gives Students Digital Publishing Experience
Posted November 22, 2017
By: Marlee Graser, Lovejoy Library
Omeka is a content management system gaining popularity among libraries, museums, and cultural heritage institutions as an easy method for building digital collections and exhibits. It is also being adopted by faculty and students looking for a digital publishing pathway that is simple, cost-effective, and has extensible options for describing nearly any object.
Here at SIUE, Omeka is used both as a resource for producing digital born scholarship and creat...
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Making Your Blackboard Course More Mobile Friendly
Posted November 21, 2017
By: Laura Million
In a 2017 survey conducted by Educause, 97% of undergraduate students surveyed said they owned a smartphone and 53% owned a tablet. Of the students who use these mobile devices in class, 47% reported that their smartphones were very or extremely important to their academic success and 38% reported the same about their tablets. 1
Many faculty, on the other hand, rely on a laptop or desktop computer to design and facilitate Blackboard courses. In fact, some may never look at a ...
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Taking it Further: Extend Mobile Presence in Your Teaching Activities
Posted November 21, 2017
By: Laura Million
In the past, learning technologists have thought of mobile devices as consumption oriented, not production oriented. We tend to use mobile devices to view materials, rather than to produce or create materials. As an example, you would not expect your student to write a final paper on a smartphone (although some dare to try this feat each semester), but you might expect them to check in on a discussion board or course announcement. More and more, however, mobile devices are bei...
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