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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…
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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…
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Participation Activities in Online Videos
Dr. Emily Riddle, Department of Human Ecology, SUNY Oneonta, I haven’t introduced any new resources that I could link others to in my classes since transferring online. However, I have continued to use in-class participation…
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A Faster Way to Get Your Test Questions into Blackboard (finally!)
Dr. Sarah Portway, Department of Human Ecology, SUNY Oneonta, If you have ever tried to create a quiz or test in Blackboard, you’ve probably noticed that the part where you have to copy and paste…
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Breakout Groups for Dialogic Exercises
Dr. William Walker, History Department, SUNY Oneonta, Professor Will Walker explains the effective use of breakout groups for dialogue-based activities. Will explains how this is done quite simply by using the breakout group function in Blackboard collaborate. This is part of a series of posts collected…
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Virtual Whiteboard Solutions
Dr. Keith Jones, Mathematics Department, SUNY Oneonta, One of the best pieces of advice I saw early in the online switch was to pick up a relatively inexpensive document camera and use that as a virtual whiteboard.…
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All About Blackboard (Polls, Screenshots, and Grading Exams)
Dr. Keith Jones, Mathematics Department, SUNY Oneonta, Blackboard Collaborate Polls I am used to running a classroom where students speak just as much as I do, but it has become much more difficult to get students to…
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Using LaTeX with Blackboard
Dr. Keith Jones, Mathematics Department, SUNY Oneonta, LaTeX is the universal standard for typesetting mathematical communications; so any subject that involves the use of equations can benefit from LaTeX. Blackboard technically has built-in LaTeX support, but it is very…
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Using Perusall
Dr. Keith Jones, Mathematics Department, SUNY Oneonta, About the Website The website Perusall is designed to facilitate reading and discussion online. It provides a platform which integrates textbook (or other document) reading with annotations that spawn discussion threads. One reader…
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Another Day, Another Folder
Dr. Sallie Han, Anthropology Department, SUNY Oneonta, I reorganized the folders on Blackboard so that each one contains all the materials for one day/lesson, and my students have told me that this has been helpful for keeping their work organized. Previously,…
