About the group
The Blackboard User Group is a new group for 2023! is led by the Community User Group leaders for the Community. The meetings feature presentations, panels and workshops from institutions and experts. Time is often dedicated for questions, so you can explore the detail. We meet on a regular basis, once every two weeks on a Thursday at 11:00 a.m. EDT / 4:00 p.m. GMT.
The Blackboard User Group is led by:
The Blackboard User Group is led by:
- Shelby Huddleston, Cowley College
- Julie Mulvey, Durham University
- Mary Beth Scumaci, Trocaire College
- Chris Boon, University of East Anglia (UEA)
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User Group Recordings
Did you miss a session or want a recap? You can access the slides and watch the full recording via our blog post.
| We reconvene in January 2025! | |
| Thu 23 Jan |
Increasing Student Engagement in Online Classes Alex Fiscus, Adjunct Faculty, Tri-County Technical College |
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Greetings Learn Ultra Users, Summary - AI Discussion - 21 Sept 2023 Session Recording In this meeting, the User Group leaders adopted for a different approach from the presenter format and prepared questions for a discussion on the ...
Claire Gardener
Oct '23
Karina Estrada
Nov '23
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When I load a PowerPoint in Blackboard and click through it to show it in class. The Power Point slightly jumps up and down on the screen. Is anyone else using Power Point in the classroom directly from Blackboard? What is your ...
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Hello Bb User Group- Happy New Year! We are looking forward to our first Bb User Group session of 2025, coming this Thursday, January 23. It will be a bitter sweet start as we say good-bye to @Paul Cave and thank him greatly for his 2 years of ...
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Hi all, just wondering if any of you use the ‘Turnitin enabled’ in BB Assignment? I've spoken with a lecturer who seems to have run into a problem where she is allowing 3 attempts with 'Turnitin enabled' and ‘Do not store the submitted ...
Hi Aiden-
We are just starting to use Turnitin this semester. Did you have any luck with replicating ...
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Hello Bb User Group- Our next meeting on November 14 will take place during DTS24 , the Digital Teaching Symposium. The time will align with the DTS 40 minute schedule and will start at 11:20am EST/4:20 GMT. The link will be our usual ...
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I work in K-12 and our Blackboard Ultra implementation has long been advertised to our parents as an excellent way to check in on student progress and support learning. With the Observer role, when a student is enrolled, so is the ...
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We had an insightful session on September 20, 2024, focused on the topic of Institutional Hierarchy. I would like to extend my sincere thanks to Arnie Dier from Trocaire College, Chris Boon from the University of East Anglia, and ...
Samantha Fraser
Sep '24
@Shelby Huddleston Do we have an ETA on the session recording?
Shelby Huddleston
Sep '24
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For our next session hosted by Shelby Huddleston - we will be looking at the use of HTML whether in the Blackboard platform or by creating different kinds of content to add. We have some examples to demo but we hope you are can join us in ...
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We are currently brainstorming and refining our Blackboard usage policies and requirements for faculty members. To better understand how other institutions approach Blackboard, I'm reaching out to ask about your practices. 1. ...
Julie Mulvey
Aug '24
@Stephanie Adams Hi Stephanie
Great talk in Orlando by the way - enjoyed the session very much.
- If grading ...
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I had an instructional meeting with a Japanese teaching colleague yesterday regarding copying items over into Ultra. It appears that the font used in Ultra/Bb Japanese language pack is more of a colloquel font, and displays ...
Mary Beth Scumaci
Aug '24
@Peter Moll I have not had an experience with this, but will see what I can find out.
Mary Beth
Peter Moll
Aug '24
Thank you! @Mary Beth Scumaci
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