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    Pace with release conditions

    Home / Blackboard guides / Build content Blackboard guide · Build content Pace with release conditions Decide what students can see and when, and guide them through it in order. Start with visibility. New content is hidden from students until you show it, which is useful while you build. One caution: set visibility before you set release conditions, because …

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    Organize for your modality

    Home / Blackboard guides / Build content Blackboard guide · Build content Organize for your modality Choose how to organize your course based on how you teach it. The single biggest structural choice in your Blackboard course is how you organize it. Your teaching modality is the deciding factor. By teaching modality we mean how the course is delivered: in…

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    Images, color, and contrast

    Home / Blackboard guides / Accessibility Blackboard guide · Accessibility Images, color, and contrast Make images and color choices that work for every student. Every meaningful image needs alt text that conveys its point in a sentence. Purely decorative images can be marked as decorative so screen readers skip them. Never let color carry meaning by itself. …

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    Your entry point and syllabus

    …they can use. Give students a clear front door: a short welcome and a visible “Start here” that says what to do first. Post your syllabus as a Blackboard Document built with real headings, rather than only a PDF attachment, so it reads well on phones and with assistive technology. Many campuses require specific syllabus statements, so add yours now. How…

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    Choose your grading scheme

    …any grades post. Decide your grade scheme early: straight points, or weighted categories, for example exams 40 percent, projects 40 percent, and participation 20 percent. Set it before the first grades post, because changing it midstream confuses students and shifts totals they have already seen. Confirm that the overall grade students see matches what…

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    Course availability and key settings

    Home / Blackboard guides / Set up your LMS Blackboard guide · Set up your LMS Course availability and key settings The handful of settings important to set before students arrive. Two things cause most early-term trouble: availability and dates. Make the course available to students when you are ready, and set the start and end so students get access exactly…

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    AI literacy guides

    Home / Training / AI literacy guides AI literacy guides AI literacy guides Every topic from the AI literacy course, as a standalone reference. Search or filter to find exactly what you need. Want the full path and a certificate? Take the course. AllAI basicsIntegrity and AIAssignment designAssessment redesignTeaching with AICourse AI policyYour own…

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    When and how to allow AI

    Home / AI literacy guides / Teaching with AI AI literacy guide · Teaching with AI When and how to allow AI Productive, disclosed AI use can serve learning when you set the terms. Allowing AI is not the opposite of integrity. There are good reasons to invite it: brainstorming, getting unstuck, generating practice problems, checking one’s own draft, or…

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    What it does well, and where it fails

    Home / AI literacy guides / AI basics AI literacy guide · AI basics What it does well, and where it fails Match the tool to tasks it is good at, and know where it breaks. Generative AI is genuinely useful for some tasks: drafting and rephrasing text, summarizing, brainstorming options, explaining a concept several ways, and generating examples or practice…

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    Scaffold, draft, reflect

    Home / AI literacy guides / Assessment redesign AI literacy guide · Assessment redesign Scaffold, draft, reflect Three reliable moves that build learning and resist outsourcing at once. Three moves do a lot of work together. Scaffold a big assignment into smaller staged pieces with their own deadlines, so students build it over time rather than produce it…

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    Redesign over detection

    Home / AI literacy guides / Integrity and AI AI literacy guide · Integrity and AI Redesign over detection The thesis of this course: change the work, not the surveillance. The throughline of this course is simple to state. You cannot reliably detect AI use, and trying to do so harms students and your teaching. What you can do is design assignments and…

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    Localize and personalize

    Home / AI literacy guides / Assignment design AI literacy guide · Assignment design Localize and personalize Anchor work in the here and now of your class and your students. Work rooted in your specific classroom is hard to outsource. Tie assignments to a discussion that happened last week, a guest speaker, a field trip, a lab the class ran, or a current…

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    Designing AI-integrated assignments

    Home / AI literacy guides / Teaching with AI AI literacy guide · Teaching with AI Designing AI-integrated assignments Assignments where using AI well is the skill being taught. An AI-integrated assignment makes the tool part of the task and assesses how well students use it. For example, students generate a first draft or a set of options with AI, then…

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    Course quality course

    Home / Course catalog / Course quality Course quality Evaluating Your Course for Quality A practical course on reviewing your own course for quality: alignment, clarity, assessment, accessibility, and engagement, with an online deep-dive lesson. It teaches the shared principles behind frameworks like Quality Matters and OSCQR and points you to them for…

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    First Day of Class course

    … of Class The first day shapes the whole term. This short, practical course helps you prepare, set the right tone, build rapport and belonging, make expectations clear, and start with momentum, instead of just reading the syllabus. Free to read. Sign in with Google to take it in order and earn a certificate at 85 percent on the final quiz. Start the course…

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    AI literacy course

    Home / Training / AI literacy course AI in teaching AI Literacy for Instructors: Teaching and Assessing in the Age of AI A practical, research-based course for teaching and assessing when students have AI. It treats detection as a dead end and puts the weight on redesigning assignments and assessment. Free to read. Sign in with Google to take the course in…

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    Classroom management course

    …Classroom management Managing the In-Person Classroom A short, practical course on running an in-person classroom well, from setting up the room to handling disruption, facilitating difficult conversations, and supporting a student in distress while staying in your role and pointing to campus help. Free to read. Sign in with Google to take the course…

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    Learning theories course

    …theories How Students Learn: Learning Theories for College Teaching A short, practical course on how students actually learn, and what each theory means for your teaching. It gives the why behind the how in the teaching foundations course. Free to read. Sign in with Google to take the course in order and earn a certificate at 85 percent on the final …

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    Teaching foundations course

    …Teaching Well in Higher Ed: A Practical Foundation A practical, research-based foundation for teaching in higher education, from course design through assessment, accessibility, classroom management, and reaching every student. Free to read. Sign in with Google to take the course in order and earn a certificate at 85 percent on the final quiz. Start…

    https://ksarn.org/pedagogy-course/

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    Blackboard course

    …Course in Blackboard A practical, research-based path from an empty Blackboard shell to a well-designed, accessible course you can reuse every term. Free to read. Sign in with Google to take the course in order and earn a certificate at 85 percent on the final quiz. Start the course What you’ll be able to do by the end This course models the practice…

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