Author: Tim Ploss

  • Grading Schema

    Frank Thornton, Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Special Education, SUNY Oneonta, This short video helps explain how to make the letter grades that appear in Blackboard match your syllabus grading format. If you have any questions just drop me a line. This is part of a series of posts collected by the TLTC and…

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  • Creating Rubrics in Blackboard

    Frank Thornton, Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Special Education, SUNY Oneonta, This video explains how to create rubrics in blackboard and how to apply them to assignments. If you have any questions just drop me a line. This is part of a series of posts collected by the TLTC and Faculty Center to share…

  • Exporting and Importing Tests in Blackboard

    Bharath Ramkumar, Department of Fashion and Textiles, SUNY Oneonta, Creating tests on Blackboard can often be tedious. However, if you already have a test created in one of your courses in a past/current semester and would like to recreate the same or similar test, there is a simple way to export the test from that…

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  • Communicating with Students in Blackboard

    Bharath Ramkumar, Department of Fashion and Textiles, SUNY Oneonta, Over the course of the semester, there may be numerous occasions when you might want to communicate with individual students, a particular student group, or the whole class. Although emailing students from Outlook is an option, it isn’t always easy to locate and type their names/email…

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  • Alternative Assessments to Avoid Plagiarism

    Dr. Kjersti VanSlyke-Briggs, Department of Secondary Education and Educational Technology, SUNY Oneonta, This short video discusses a few ways to creatively avoid potential plagiarism and non-sanctioned collaborative teaming (AKA cheating) in online course environments. It highlights online tools and authentic assessment approaches to written papers in which students must think outside of the box to…

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