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We’ve recently been posting a lot about rubrics, including why you might want to use them in Blackboard and how to build your own rubrics. If you wanted to get started with rubrics right away, you may want to explore some of the ready-to-use rubrics from Blackboard. These rubrics have been collated from their Exemplary Continue Reading »

Randy Fingerhut, Associate Professor of Psychology, teaches in La Salle University’s doctoral program in Clinical Psychology and supervises students who are being trained in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.   Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT for short, is a specific type of psychotherapy that addresses negative patterns of thoughts and behaviors that contribute to depression and anxiety. Over Continue Reading »

Blackboard has released a few new features in time for the Summer semester. These updates will make it easier for you to grade students’ work, use the discussion boards, monitor your students’ performance, and communicate key dates. You will be able to access each of these features by May 17, 2013. Click on the tabs Continue Reading »

This post is co-authored by Jessica and Sherri. In a previous post, Jessica introduced the benefits of rubrics as grading tools and provided tutorials on building electronic rubrics in Blackboard. However, it is difficult to build a good rubric that meets your needs while also saving you time.  A complicated rubric can make your grading Continue Reading »

This week, Turnitin is hosting a week of plagiarism education and awareness events. You can find the full list of events here: Plagiarism Education Week. Two webinars that sound particularly interesting include: Responses to Plagiarism Wednesday, April 24 at 1pm Description from Turnitin.com: In this webcast, author Lynn Lampert will provide useful tools to combat Continue Reading »

Yesterday educators and technology innovators from around the region gathered at Villanova University to investigate new educational technologies, listen to inspirational keynote speakers, and connect with peers in the field. Read on for some of the top takeaways from the conference that faculty and staff at La Salle may be able to apply to their Continue Reading »

Why Use Rubrics? Well-crafted rubrics can be a very helpful tool for grading your students’ work. Benefits of rubrics include: Time savings – Because feedback is standardized to specific criteria, you don’t need to generate original responses for each student’s work. Better projects and papers – If provided ahead of time, rubrics help students to Continue Reading »

The author is not a lawyer and this post does not constitute legal advice. Imagine that your students are creating videos for a class project. Although the project itself may be simple, the copyright issues involved are complex. Will students be using clips from videos created by other people? Will the final videos be shown Continue Reading »

In an effort to clean up the Course Copy process, Blackboard has changed the way that the tool functions. In the past, all files that were stored in the Course Files area were included in a course copy. This created extra copies of files, many of which were no longer actually used in the course, Continue Reading »

When students in Dr. John Beatty’s Online Journalism course enter the job market, potential employers will expect to see portfolios filled with evidence suggesting that these recent grads are worth hiring. Thanks to Dr. Beatty’s thoughtful instructional approach and use of a public facing course website, students in COM-356/ENG-402 will be all the more connected Continue Reading »