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The Blackboard Grade Center
Students love instructor feedback and want to know how they are performing in their courses. With the start of the new academic year quickly approaching, why not try something new in your courses?
The Grade Center is the instructor’s central hub for keeping track of student assignments to grade, reviewing submitted assessments, and tracking student performance. Whenever a graded items, such as an assignment or assessments, is created in a Bb course, the system will automatically create a column in the Grade Center.
Save time and paper by requiring students to submit assignments through Blackboard. Then use the Inline Grading tool to embed feedback. Describe expectations and standardize the evaluation process with Rubrics.
Instructors can customize many Grade Center features, such as grading schemas (points/percentages converted to letter grades), categories (labs, projects), color coding (e.g., red to indicate at risk) and other important column information. The Grade Center also works well with many other areas of Blackboard including the Retention Center.
To learn more about the Grade Center: - contact the Instructional Technology Team with any suggestions or concerns
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Qwickly Simplifies Faculty Tasks Within Blackboard
Streamline Course Availability & Announcement Postings
Qwickly is new tool deployed to faculty in Blackboard during the summer. It was designed to dramatically simplify the workflow of common tasks frequently performed by faculty.
One great example is the Make Course Available Tool. Consider the current multi-step workflow to make a course available in Blackboard:
- Go into the course
- Open the Control Panel
- Expand the Properties menu
- Change the value of Make Course Available to Yes
- Submit the form
- Repeat for each course
Qwickly takes this repetitive task and provides instructors with a fast way to make courses available with just 2 clicks! Qwickly also supports:- Sending emails to all or some courses at one time
- Posting announcements to all or some courses at one time
- Reviewing which courses have items that need grading
To access Qwickly, log into Blackboard and click on the My Blackboard tab. The Qwickly panel is available on the left side of the page.
These tools are restricted to faculty and TA roles and filtered to the current year (for example, SP2015, SU2015, and FA2015 semesters) for improved performance.
For more information about Qwickly:
The Android version of the UMBC app is now available on the
Google Play Store. The app requires Android version 4.1 and up. There is no login required, as you can access all the features as a guest. If you do have an account, log in once to the UMBC app and from that point forward use a 4-digit pin to quickly log in later.
The design is slightly different in the Android version, Home, Search, Places, and Events are moved to the top but users should expect the same features found in the
iOS version launched last month. If logged in, the UMBC app will feature content and resources tailored to you.
In the Home tab, users can browse both the myUMBC and UMBC mobile friendly site and quickly check for updates. Search has a built in QR code scanner and shows what you have used recently, what others are looking for and myUMBC favorites.
Places will display office hours, maps, and upcoming events while Events will show you what is happening now and upcoming events on campus. Just like the iOS version, the app will be updated with more features in the future making it more robust.
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How DoIT & OGC Upgraded an 8 Year Old Website
Brand new website features BOX integration and RT support
Brian Thompson, Assistant Dean of the Graduate School and an affiliate member of the Office of the General Counsel (OGC), had a problem. The 8 year old OGC website just wasn't doing its job of effectively providing information and establishing communication for visitors.
It wasn't until Joe Kirby, Assistant Vice President of Business Systems for DoIT, would soon introduce Thompson to all sorts of tools to use on the website. “The world we live in right now is self service,” Kirby said. “We can’t deliver fish anymore, we have to teach them how to fish.”
What needed to happen first was a
new redesign, so Kirby suggested moving to the WordPress platform. This gave the OGC site a much needed refresh, as well as providing a more mobile friendly website.
After just a couple hours of tutorial, Thompson ended up redesigning the website himself and even added a new public info requests tab to the site. Information was further streamlined with contact information always at the bottom of any tab or page while navigating the site.
General counsel employees received their own tabs within the website, compared to the old website where all employees were just listed and lumped into one tab.
Next up was
integrating BOX into the site. Thompson could now link to BOX files on the new site, and update these documents automatically without having to go back to the OGC website and update the links making it less of a hassle to manage.
Another addition was RT support in the form of
electronic requests. Before, email requests for public info could get lost or would have multiple people working on the same request.
By adding RT to the new OGC site, users could now simply fill out an online request form rather than sending an self-generated email to one or more of the legal counsel staff and it would be sent to the right person automatically, streamlining the whole process.
Thompson was able to experiment with a lot of different tools without worrying of breaking something somewhere else. “I think that what DoIT does, it creates an environment where you don’t have to be afraid of failure.” said Thompson.
One thing the old site didn't have was an RSS feed. “Let’s just say, the old site had a news tab that wasn't the most current,” said Thompson. “A RSS feed seemed like the perfect compromise.” The RSS feed is always accessible as it consistently appears on each of the tabs on the new general counsel website.
Overall, the entire experience of overhauling the site was great for experience. “Having an environment where you don’t have to worry about failure is very empowering.” said Thompson.
The partnership between DoIT and OGC lead to a practical solution of the necessary technologies to be implemented rather than applying the latest and greatest tools to a site. “We would like to let people know who aren't technical that they can do this.” said Kirby.
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