Tag Archives: Blackboard

Don’t you hate Blackboard for managing courses?

Posted on February 3, 2015 by Joan E. Strassmann

Last September in the same email we got told both that our university had just signed a three-year contract with Blackboard and we got asked what we thought of Blackboard. Doesn’t that seem backward to you? Clearly they don’t really … Continue reading →

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The trouble with grading rubrics

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Joan E. Strassmann

Most of the advice I read about grading points to the importance of rubrics. Blackboard even lets me put a rubric up on the site. Why is this? What is a rubric? What is the trouble with rubrics? Well, according … Continue reading →

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