About the group
The Blackboard User Group 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.
- Thu 6 March: Using Blackboard to help transform student transition to Higher Education
Carl Harrington – Associate Professor & Widening Participation Academic Lead - BIO : School of Biological Sciences. University of East Anglia (UK) - Thu 20 March: Entering Your Disney Era: Developing the Happiest Course on Earth
Stephanie Adams, Youngstown State University (USA)
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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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As a K-12 school district, we serve students ages 4 - 18. From the US perspective, we call this elementary, middle, and high school. We have been Blackboard customers for nearly 20 years, and in that time we have witnessed the K-12 user ...
@Brian Yearling @Brianna Beadle
Hi Brian and Brianna-
I just looked through the user groups and there is a K-12 Bb ...
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Hello Community!! I'm looking for a solution for students to accomplish the following in a way that is all in once place. Register for a course create a blackboard account Fill out necessary enrollment forms Currently the admissions ...
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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 ...
Hi Marlo- I have used it in the classroom without issue, but, I have noticed when the files have a lot ...
Marlo Holloway
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Thank you Mary Beth, When you place you PP into Blackboard do you do it from sharepoint and share ...
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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 ...
Mary Beth Scumaci
Jan '25
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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