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Design to Educate
United States
Приєднався 21 жов 2021
As an Instructional Designer, I create videos to help faculty set up courses for success.
Growing up, I was homeschooled for 10 years using Abeka curriculum. Using a lesson plan book and watching pre-recorded VHS tapes of a classroom in Florida, I consider this an early version of online education. I've always been interested in technology and its personal uses. Being dyslexic, I learned early on that technology was a way I could learn faster and more efficiently than most.
Fast-forward to the present, I enjoy bringing technology into the classroom to bridge the gaps traditional learning leave behind. From the "Online Pep Rally" using Prezi video and streaming software to teaching instructors how to build courses using my UA-cam channel, I use technology with one thing in mind: Student Success. I have professional certifications, but I feel they don't mean anything unless I make a difference in how education adapts to the ever-growing world of technology.
Growing up, I was homeschooled for 10 years using Abeka curriculum. Using a lesson plan book and watching pre-recorded VHS tapes of a classroom in Florida, I consider this an early version of online education. I've always been interested in technology and its personal uses. Being dyslexic, I learned early on that technology was a way I could learn faster and more efficiently than most.
Fast-forward to the present, I enjoy bringing technology into the classroom to bridge the gaps traditional learning leave behind. From the "Online Pep Rally" using Prezi video and streaming software to teaching instructors how to build courses using my UA-cam channel, I use technology with one thing in mind: Student Success. I have professional certifications, but I feel they don't mean anything unless I make a difference in how education adapts to the ever-growing world of technology.
Blackboard Ultra Updates | February Production Release
Each week, Anthology presents what they are working on for the next update. In this video, I feature four updates I'm excited about.
0:00 Intro
0:20 Client Office Hours
1:02 Extra Credit
1:32 Gradebook Sorting
2:20 Exemptions
3:16 Student Progress Tracking
3:52 Closing
0:00 Intro
0:20 Client Office Hours
1:02 Extra Credit
1:32 Gradebook Sorting
2:20 Exemptions
3:16 Student Progress Tracking
3:52 Closing
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NEW Blackboard Ultra Extra Credit Feature
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A long awaited feature finally was released in Blackboard Ultra; Extra Credit. In this video, I walk your through how to create an extra credit assignment and add extra credit questions to your assessments. How to Setup Your Gradebook ua-cam.com/video/N2uDPZRHPC4/v-deo.html How to Create Extra Category ua-cam.com/video/x3HHHBiL1eM/v-deo.html 0:00 Intro 1:43 Creating an Extra Credit Assignment 3...
NEW Gradebook Update - How to Add LTI Assignments | Blackboard Ultra
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With all the new updates Anthology is rolling out, the gradebook has had some great improvements. That being said, it has changed the way we categorize LTI assignments. In this video, I show you how to use the additional items category and how to redeploy LTI assignments to existing categories. 0:00 Intro 1:01 Anthology Updates 1:50 Categories in Blackboard 3:43 Additional Items 4:55 Using Poin...
How to Backup & Archive Your Courses | Blackboard Ultra
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Getting ready for Spring semester? In this video, I show the RSU Faculty how to Archive and Backup their course content.
Grade The Right Way | Blackboard Ultra
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Blackboard Ultra has a lot of great features making it easy to manage students. One big problem is the way they want you to grade. In this video I cover the caveats of grading in Blackboard Ultra. 0:00 Intro 1:00 There's a problem with BB 2:00 Grading a multiple attempt assignment 3:36 Overriding a Grade 4:15 Viewing & Grading Each Attempt 8:15 Grading a Quiz 10:00 Grade Each Questions, not the...
How to Add Tutor.com to Your Blackboard Courses - RSU Resource Links
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Tutor.com provides our students with free tutoring services across multiple disciplines. In this video, I show you how to add the tutor.com link into your courses. 0:00 Intro 0:11 Design to Educate Channel 0:44 Adding the Link 2:30 How the link works 3:03 Closing
Submission Status | Blackboard Ultra
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Students are very creative when it comes to excuses for not turning something in on time. Blackboard Ultra allows instructors to view submission statuses to know what happened. In this video, I cover how to determine what happened. 0:00 Intro 1:10 Discussion participation 6:25 Assignment Status 9:05 Saved as a draft 12:23 Submission complete 14:53 Test submission 18:25 Late submissions 20:16 Cl...
Extra Credit Items | Blackboard Ultra
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At last, extra credit is possible in Blackboard Ultra. Anthology is working on updates to bring a better solution. In the meantime, here's how to set extra credit in your Blackboard Ultra Course. 0:00 Intro 0:48 Extra credit category 1:52 Exempt extra credit category 2:45 Add a calculation 4:40 How it affects student grades 6:12 Create extra credit assignments 7:30 Closing
Are Your Grades Accurate? | Gradebook in Blackboard Ultra
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While helping instructors with their courses, I noticed most of them didn't have their gradebook set up correctly. In this video, I walk you through how to make sure your grades are accurate in your Blackboard Ultra gradebook. 0:00 Intro 0:50 How to setup your gradebook 2:05 Calculate your categories 3:42 Total 100% 4:17 Display the Percentage Grade 4:57 Closing How to Grade Student Submissions...
How to Grade Student Submissions in Blackboard Ultra
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Students have completed assignments, now what? In this video, I walk you through how to grade student submissions in Blackboard Ultra. 0:00 Intro 0:52 Viewing Submissions 4:45 Posting the Grade 5:42 Download Submission Files 6:48 Grading a Discussion Post 8:30 Closing
How to Export a Gradebook in Blackboard Ultra
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Many times you need a grade book file to manage student information. Here's how to export a grade book in Blackboard Ultra. 0:00 intro 0:15 Is your grade book setup? 0:40 downloading the file 3:14 Closing
Welcome to Design to Educate
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Welcome Educators! My name is Troy Gerard and I’m here to help you build the best course for your digital learning platform. Being a lifelong student, Instructional Designer, and University Instructor, I want to give you the tools you need to be successful both in the classroom and online. If you find my videos helpful, please subscribe to follow along as I provide my school with tips and trick...
Pair a McGraw Hill Course with Blackboard Ultra
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McGraw Hill offers a wide range of course resources that students enjoy. In this video, I show you how to pair a McGraw Hill Course in Blackboard Ultra. 0:00 Intro 0:16 Books & Tools Link 1:24 Pair with a CONNECT Section 2:07 Select Your Section 2:48 Return to Blackboard 3:13 Connect Menu 3:28 Making changes to your CONNECT Course 4:08 Closing Add McGraw Hill Content Video - ua-cam.com/video/Zl...
Link Your Cengage Mindtap Course to Blackboard Ultra
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I’m a big fan of Cengage Mindtap. In this video, I show you how to link a Cengage resource in Blackboard Ultra. 0:00 Intro 0:16 Deploy your resources to the tool 0:44 Access the Cengage LTI 1:19 Find your resource 2:13 Link to Course 3:43 Select your gradebook settings 4:16 Establish the root link 4:57 Closing Add Cengage Content Video - ua-cam.com/video/i341Jo3pKTw/v-deo.html Add a Question Ba...
Extend Due Dates and Availability | Blackboard Ultra
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“The dog ate my computer, can I have an extension?” If your students need more time, here's how to add an exception in Blackboard Ultra. 0:00 Intro 0:16 Current due date and release conditions 0:58 Student submission settings 2:42 Adjust release conditions 4:08 Closing Gradebook Setup Video - ua-cam.com/video/hhDYC9zrSH8/v-deo.html Gradable Item Video - ua-cam.com/video/VjAMaWYL_0I/v-deo.html B...
NEW Blackboard Ultra Question Bank Manager
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NEW Blackboard Ultra Question Bank Manager
Sync Your McGraw Hill Content in Blackboard Ultra
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Sync Your McGraw Hill Content in Blackboard Ultra
Blackboard Ultra - Master Course Template
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Blackboard Ultra - Master Course Template
Blackboard Ultra - Importing and Exporting Course Packages
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Blackboard Ultra - Importing and Exporting Course Packages
NEW Blackboard Ultra Gradebook Setup
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NEW Blackboard Ultra Gradebook Setup
Linking OneDrive Files to Blackboard Ultra
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Linking OneDrive Files to Blackboard Ultra
Migrating Course Content from Jenzabar eLearning to Blackboard Ultra
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Migrating Course Content from Jenzabar eLearning to Blackboard Ultra
Details & Action Links in Blackboard Ultra
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Details & Action Links in Blackboard Ultra
Availability Settings on Gradable Items in Blackboard
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Availability Settings on Gradable Items in Blackboard
Policy, Support, & Services Links in Blackboard
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Policy, Support, & Services Links in Blackboard
How to Link a Cengage Mindtap Course to Blackboard
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How to Link a Cengage Mindtap Course to Blackboard
How to Pair Your McGraw Hill SIMnet Course to Blackboard
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How to Pair Your McGraw Hill SIMnet Course to Blackboard
Student View & Preview Mode in Blackboard
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Student View & Preview Mode in Blackboard
Trying to add a quiz/test for a group of students (24 students in 3 groups). I want them to submit individual assignments with different due dates. HOW?
How do you export a Test?
Thanks . very informative
This is fantastic, I've be an ID for 12 years, and I've never been as impressed with content shared. I appreciate that you aren't just marketing your college but making this usable for other colleges. Thank you!!
Troy, thank you. These videos are just what I have been searching for. I am an Instructional Designer and we recently adopted BB Ultra for a small number of our courses. It is like trying to learn a new language, and all of the instruction is in the language you don't know. You're videos are exceptional and easy to follow. Thank you for these great resources!
this does not address the fact that you need to use Pools. I have test bank files from publishers that cannot be uploaded
When you grant a student an extension (changing their due date) on an assignment or test with release conditions (specifically the Hide After date), do we also need to edit the student's Hide After date to make sure it doesn't hide until after their extended due date, or will that automatically adjust when we grant their new due date?
Is there a way to put a date instead of grade or letter?
I followed your instructions and I keep getting “error:invalid column ID”. Do you have any videos on fixing errors?
Blackboard Superb.
Are you able to do this in the natural Overall Grade Column. That is the column that sends the grade to the SIS?
I set up the grades but the totals are not correct. Why are some of my assignments not being included n the cumulative totals?
Excellent
The nice thing about Bb Learn is that it was possible to come up with creative workarounds. I'm not getting that same sense with Ultra.
Does Ultra allow "equal" and "proportional" weighting within a Weighted Category?
Does Ultra allow the display of both points and percentage, as Bb Learn does?
How does Ultra handle manual grade overrides of "0"? If a student completes the assessment after the manual "0" override was implemented, is there an easily visible indicator signaling the grade change, or is the late-submission grade hidden, as is the case with Bb Learn?
What is the general consensus regarding migrating from Bb Learn to Ultra? Is it a smooth transition, or a painful transition?
Is it possible to import a Blackboard Learn Course Package into an Ultra shell?
Are Question "Banks" and "Pools" considered the same thing in Ultra?
No, they are not. Question Banks are what Bb Classic referred to as Pools, and Pools in Ultra are what classic referred to as Question Sets and Random Blocks.
Thanks a lot. We just migrated from Bb to Bb Ultra, and I was totally lost. Your video really helped.
Thanks!
Thanks, It was really helpful. Can you explain how can we connect the course outcomes with questions in the Bank questions through Blackboard Ultra?
thanks. I was stuck. I kept looking for the properties / tools / course copy kind of options from the old blackboard. Helped me get the most out of my weekend!
I was looking to see how I can add criterion to a rubric template. It seems like there are only four spaces for criteria.
The Blackboard Utra folks appear to have NEVER watched end-users...
Thanks for this very informative video. If I only want to import some part of one course to another, how do I do that? For instance, just one assignment? Could you please guide. Thanks
Is it possible to set the extra credit up with "max points" and then based on what the students do, they will receive up to that max points or all the points? It seems as though the feature give a set amount of points, rather than allowing for a max point.
Thanks for walking through this. I guess my only issue is that the new Schema still adds the Extra Credit points to the total. So they have a 76.7% out of 430 points, so if they did 20 points extra credit, they should actually have a 81.3% out of 430 point. However, the new schema adds the extra credit assignment total, so instead of calculating from 430 points, it calculates from 450. In the original Blackboard, you could just set the Extra Credit assignment to 0 and it would add the points to their total, without increasing the total points for the course grade. However, I'm discovering currently that if I set it to 0, then Blackboard Ultra won't award the student more than 0 points in the calculations, regardless of the number I give them. I just noticed this tonight, and am I trying to figure out how to fix it, because I don't want it to add the extra 20 points to the total, as you can see, it decreases the actual affect of doing the assignment. Which, if that is how you want extra credit to be calculated, that's fine, but I'm looking to make it very clear that my extra credit assignments will replace direct points (so 20 points would be actually making up 20 points in the grade). If anyone has figured this out, let me know! Thanks! EDIT: Okay, it appears that the old method of just making the assignment worth 0 points, and assigning it the appropriate category, works. However, it only updates from the Student view --- not the instructor view. So the Student would see, say, a 79% but from instructor view, I only see 77%. So... is this a weird glitch only I am having, or is this a bigger problem?
Orange shirt, concrete room, prison cell? lol. Good walk thru though.
Is there a way to contact directly or is that something you arent allowing?
Hey Troy, Great video, thanks! I did everything you demonstrated and it worked great, but my assignments aren't showing up in the gradebook on Blackboard. Does that take a while or unpair and repair?
Nevermind, I did a "Refresh Content" under the Books & Course Tools Connect dropdown menu and everything shows up on Blackboard gradebook now.
Question=Are the rubrics for the discussions already in Blackboard or do we need to create and upload our own. If they are in BB already, how do I access them? Thank you for such clear and useful videos. You get right to the point, with no wasted time. The videos on the grade book have helped me tremendously. Thank you for posting where everyone can benefit.
Do you have any tips for the file formatting for importing questions? I have followed the guide for using excel saved as a tab delimited .txt file where each line is a question and each column is type/question/answer1/correct/answer2/incorrect/answer3/incorrect. There is no header and only 30 rows of questions. Saved as .txt and zipped as the only file in the zip. I get an error every time that it will not import. Any ideas?
@melissawells9778 Did you ever figure this out? I am struggling with this right now.
Thank you for your video. Is there a way to download the individual responses or interactions for all students for each question in a test or SCORM file?
I cannot change student grades that have already posted. What am I doing wrong?
If I turn on SafeAssign, will the uploaded file be analyzed by SafeAssign?
Could you help me export a quiz in ultra? I cannot for the life of me find how to export a quiz as a zip file.
I made a horrible mistake! I accidentally deleted a student's mid-term exam! I have two students with the exact same name and I deleted the wrong exam. Is there any way I can get that exam back? Argh!!!!!!
Did you manage to find a fix for this? Im not sure there would be way to recover a deleted exam.
Does Blackboard ULTRA provide the instructor with the ability to create a student grade report - like in Blackboard Original? The stats report in ULTRA is informative but not as "student friendly" as in Blackboard Original (the Bb Original report could be saved as a pdf. for both faculty and student records). Can you help?
Thanks for the videos. Very useful.
Hi! I have one student who needs to write her final exam at a different time than the rest of the class and I cannot figure out how to do this. The exam is timed, set to start at a specific time on a specific date and is set for 180 minutes. I'm really hoping you know how to make an exception for one student to access that exam early. Thank you!
Great question. In Blackboard Ultra, if you navigate to the assignment submission page and find the student's name, there will be 3 dots to the far right of the page. By clicking this, you should see exceptions and exemptions. Exceptions will give you the option to give the student a custom due date, number of attempts, and window of availability (Release Conditions). I have a video about this here - ua-cam.com/video/FafJmnSUX-0/v-deo.html
@@designtoeducate Thank you so much!
thanks for the extra credit tutorial
Thank you for making these videos. They are super helpful
Thanks for trying, but at 1:30 you have a module within your course setup. I don't. There is no module like that.
It's important to remember that modules are merely an organization tool; similar to a folder. Content and gradable items can exist inside or outside of a module. This won't have anything to do with classifying the items in a gradebook category.
@@designtoeducate How would you characterize the functional differences between a Learning Module and a Content Folder?
Hello, thank you for your videos. Can you make a demonstration (or if you have a link video to access it) about advance calculation in gradebook. I don't use percentage nor points but the 4, 3, 2, 1, system like in gpa. appreciate the information.
Can I make this work with weighted grades where the point values are not weighted equally? For example, both a quiz and a test might be worth 100 points, but the average of the tests equals 25% of the grade while the average of quizzes is only 15%.
When I exempt the extra credit category, the value I inserted returns to "0".
Is it possible to create an assignment that applies a late penalty for each day it is late?
Great question. Unfortunately, the answer is not at this time. Hopefully Blackboard builds this feature out since this would make our grading life a lot easier.
@@designtoeducate Thank you for the response =]
If you are using an Publisher LTI Tool with deep links, you will need to assign them to a category for them to show up in the overall grade setup. Another element of an accurate gradebook is grading the items the right way. Here is a video explaining the different ways Blackboard wants you to grade assignments. ua-cam.com/video/cuXjU2rz-kw/v-deo.html