For the first break I braced myself for a Blackboard session on what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming in Blackboard. This was one of those sessions where 10-20 people sit in chairs at the booth. The big deal is that the Discussion Board is almost completely redone. Faculty and students will now be able to search in the Discussion Board within a date range, across forums. Peer review can be set up for forums so TAs or students can moderate or grade. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s possible to set up e-mail notification of posts to a Bb Discussion Board (note to self: e-mail from the server is going to exponentially increase), and forums can now have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153controlled release\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, i.e. faculty can create a forum and make it available between certain dates just like other Blackboard content.\n<\/p>\n
\nBlackboard has also integrated a discussion grader into the Discussion Board. This will replace the Building Block we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re currently using but the good news is the new discussion grader was deployed with the assistance of the folks who built the Building Block.\n<\/p>\n
\nBreak food was not good, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no surprise. On to the next session.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
For the first break I braced myself for a Blackboard session on what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s coming in Blackboard. This was one of those sessions where 10-20 people sit in chairs at the booth. The big deal is that the Discussion Board is … Continue reading