Blackboard Learn Demonstration Available to Faculty in January
Faculty can attend a Blackboard Learn demonstration, hosted by IT Services, at 9:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 13, in the Faculty Technology Center (Gibson Annex). Additional demonstration sessions will be held at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. on Jan. 20 and 27.
The demonstration will include information about adding and organizing course materials, as well as creating assignments and quizzes. New features, such as the built-in Student Preview mode that makes it easy to ensure content appears to students as intended, as well as the integration of SafeAssign to seamlessly create assignments for citation checking, will also be demonstrated.
Faculty can RSVP to bbhelp@uark.edu.
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Erin Griffin, documentation/user support specialist
IT Services
479-575-2901,
ecgriff@uark.edu
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