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Tag Archives: Blackboard

Blog-specific email plugin for WPMU users

21-Jan-10

A quick WPMU hack that I think will help a lot of people using an installation of WPMU for multiple classes.
The plugin Email Users by Vincent Prat allows blog authors/admins to email users in two different ways: 1) by emailing a group of users (such as those corresponding a particular role on your blog), or [...]

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Blackboard hack: Merging classes from multiple pages

27-Aug-09

Blackboard has a feature called Course Merge that lets instructors teaching more than one section of a course merge the sections into a single roster and course space. It turns out, though, that in Blackboard 8, if a professor has more than 25 or so courses alive in the system (which can easily happen when [...]

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Parsing the box

30-Mar-09

My friend Matt blogged this morning about how the concept of the Learning Management System is misguided. I agree with the gist of what he says there, but there are some ways in which I think that the anti-LMS rhetoric can be easily overgeneralized. The metaphor of the LMS as a “box” is telling: quite [...]

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Nudging faculty toward paperlessness

23-Jan-09

I was included on an email sent recently by the VP of our school’s student association regarding the newly implemented pay-to-print policy. The student association is not happy with the policy, and their reasons were good: it’s not so much that students want to print, but instead that their professors require them to print. The [...]

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