The tips, tools, and straight talk every Blackboard admin needs.
The tips, tools, and straight talk every Blackboard admin needs.
American philosopher George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” In EdTech, that couldn’t be more true — yesterday’s issues have a way of showing up again tomorrow. This archive exists so the lessons are never more than a search away.
This week at Blackboard World, Blackboard introduced it’s new major mobile application, Blackboard Instructor. This comes as many LMS companies have either developed mobile friendly versions of their application or published their own mobile applications. In 2015, I reviewed the…
During Blackboard World 2015, Blackboard made many announcements about their products, but none (in my opinion) with more impact than a new community site. I was lucky to provide a t-shirt design which Blackboard printed and gave away to anyone…
Last year marked the fifth anniversary of Blackboard’s step into the mobile realm with it’s purchase of TerriblyClever in 2009. Over the past five years the company has grown in the marketplace with several products. The first was a the…
Over the past few years I have become a crusader in using tools such Piwik Analytics in Blackboard Learn. In many presentations I have shown how these tools have impact how we support the Blackboard application at the University of Missouri.…
One of the many topics that my book, Blackboard Learn Administration, talks about is upgrading and installing Blackboard Learn. However I didn’t really go into detail about the process in preparing to upgrade or install a new version of Blackboard…
Greetings everyone! Sorry that I haven’t been able to post but I have recently been dealing with a Blackboard production environment that has spent much of its time in various rings of hell. This has happened on and off since…
We’ve spent months and months at the university building up our users to the new features in Service Pack 11. Especially the new content editor, however over the past few weeks we’ve found issues within SP11 that cause myself and…