{"id":181,"date":"2013-09-04T13:21:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/?p=181"},"modified":"2015-01-19T09:47:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-19T15:47:19","slug":"new-blackboard-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/2013\/09\/04\/new-blackboard-features\/","title":{"rendered":"New Blackboard Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that some areas of Blackboard look a little different. We recently upgraded, and with this upgrade came some new features. Three of these new features that you may want to note are the calendar, discussions, and inline grading.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Calendar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You may fondly remember those days when you could create assignments in Blackboard and they would automatically populate the calendar. Well, that feature is back! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=pTdGOMAZhQY\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to check out the other calendar upgrades.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discussions now just, well, look nifty. The main reason for this is that you can view student avatars next to their posts. The other reason is you can view all of the posts on one page. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=ObKS6_DB_nI\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inline Grading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And now for the best upgrade of all&#8230; inline grading. Many instructors download assignments, use track changes in Microsoft Office to edit and add comments, and then upload the assignment back to Blackboard. Well, if you are one of those instructors, inline grading will save you a lot of time! Documents can be opened in Blackboard and the instructor can make annotations\u00a0<em>right there in Blackboard.\u00a0<\/em>Nice, huh?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=3X9Rerz0VX0\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to see inline grading in action.<\/p>\n<p>If you have questions about these or any other changes in Blackboard, please do not hesitate to contact me (angela.wassenmiller@cune.edu).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that some areas of Blackboard look a little different. We recently upgraded, and with this upgrade came some new features. Three of these new features that you may want to note are the calendar, discussions, and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/2013\/09\/04\/new-blackboard-features\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  New Blackboard Features<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/elearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}