Recently, some staff have reported difficulty joining an Online Room or viewing a recording from the Online Room Archive. Issue When using Google Chrome, you try to join an Online Room or Archive (recording). A new window or tab opens showing the usual Blackboard Collaborate page, but nothing seems to happen after that. No obvious warnings […]

Presentations are a common form of assessment for group and individual assessment tasks. Presentations are usually delivered during face to face tutorials. How can we ‘translate’ the task of delivering a presentation into something that is feasible for distance students? Here are three possible solutions. Presentations during online sessions If you have a relatively small […]

Unless you want to mark an individual submission from every member of a group, it is best to allow groups to submit assessments to a Group Assignment Submission folder. This way, you only need to collect one submission from the group and grade it accordingly. As long as a Grade Item is assigned to the Assignment, […]

MyLO’s Assignment Submission Folder tool allows students to upload a file, or collection of files, for assessment. You can create a Submission Folder for individual students to submit to, or you can create a Group Submission Folder so one student can submit on behalf of a group of students. These instructions will show you how to create a Submission Folder for […]

Grade Items act as the connection between an assessment item – like an assignment – and the Grades tool. If you want to mark and record grades online, you may need to associate a Grade Item with an assessment item. You can link an existing grade item to an Assignment Submission folder, Quiz or Discussion Topic. Go to […]

Many Unit Coordinators include a group-related activity in their suite of assessment tasks. Presentations are a common form of assessment task for groups, but how can off-campus students get together to plan and record a group presentation, or simply just meet as a group? Using the UTAS web conferencing platform, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra (from hereon referred […]

Here are three methods that can be used to grade student Discussion contributions online: Marking with a Grade Item via the Discussion Tool, in which a score and general feedback are provided; or Marking with a Rubric via the Discussion Tool, in which an electronic Rubric is used for feedback and/or grade calculation (when a Custom […]

Congratulations to our award-winning staff The following TSBE staff received a Teaching Merit Certificate for their 2013 teaching activities: Vitali Alexeev Sue Conway Kim Lehman Gemma Lewis Rob Macklin John Minas Patricia O’Keefe Stuart Schonell Joaquin Vespingnani Tommy Wong Satoshi Yamazaki Teaching Merit Certificates recognise the valuable contributions made to student learning by UTAS staff. […]

Each year, the University of Tasmania recognises excellence in teaching with Teaching Merit Certificates.  In early 2014,  11 TSBE staff were awarded Teaching Merit Certificates. Teaching @ TSBE will present a series of interviews with Certificate recipients. For the first interview in the Excellence in Teaching series, we asked Dr Vitali Alexeev about the Teaching Merit Certificate […]

With a web cam and our TSBE YouTube channel, you can create quick video introductions, explanations or summaries and embed them in MyLO content. YouTube videos can be embedded in News Items, in Files, and even in Module descriptions. These instructions will help you capture, upload and embed a YouTube video: HOW TO: Record a […]