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BU Blackboard Ultra
  • Posted: May 7, 2020
  • By: Harry Lawrence
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Blackboard Learn: Top 5 New Features

The new Blackboard Ultra Base Navigation offers a more modern, intuitive navigation that provides quick access to the most critical information from across all courses. Here are 5 new areas to explore within the new navigation.

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Blackboard Buddy Program
  • Posted: May 21, 2019
  • By: EdTech Editors
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Blackboard Buddy Program: A Resource for BU Faculty

Interested in learning more about Blackboard? If so, EdTech is proud to offer Blackboard Buddies, a program designed to support BU instructors using the popular Learning Management System.

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  • Posted: May 31, 2017
  • By: Jan Smith
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Platform evaluations: why did BU choose its current technologies?

BU supports a long list of technology platforms, each of which was chosen intentionally to serve a particular purpose and meet a particular need. EdTech is often tasked with evaluating

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  • Posted: May 10, 2017
  • By: Jan Smith
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The EdTech Interns

In January of 2017 four interns joined the Educational Technology Department through the CAS internship program. They have spent their time here learning about the platforms we support, working on projects that

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Student taking notes while video conferencing
  • Posted: Apr 28, 2017
  • By: Jan Smith
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Event Recap: Geddes Spring Faculty Showcase

Geddes Language Center featured four faculty projects in its Spring 2017 Digital Faculty Showcase. Each faculty member displayed their recent and developing innovations in digital-based teaching practices. Flipping a Portuguese

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  • Posted: Apr 20, 2017
  • By: Jan Smith
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What do BU students say about educational technology?

For this article we interviewed nine students from four of BU’s colleges, with eight different majors and a range of experiences with educational technology. They spoke about the challenges and

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  • Posted: Mar 23, 2017
  • By: Jan Smith
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BU’s New Video Streaming Platform

BU recent adopted the Kaltura Video streaming platform, and have branded it MyMedia the Instructional Video Streaming Platform.  Some of the benefits of MyMedia are its: Integration with Blackboard Unlimited storage Powerful

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  • Posted: Mar 20, 2017
  • By: Jan Smith
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User Communities page now available

The Educational Technology Department has created user communities, as well as the Educational Technology Collective, to provide a place to speak about various platforms that can help improve instructors and

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  • Posted: Mar 6, 2017
  • By: Jan Smith
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MyMedia training session tomorrow!

MyMedia [a.k.a Kaltura] is a platform that allows you to publish instructional videos for your students to access through Blackboard. Tomorrow (Tuesday, March 7) from 10:30am to noon our MyMedia specialist, Wendell

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  • Posted: Mar 1, 2017
  • By: Jan Smith
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Echo360 and Echo Cloud are Powerful Tools

SPH lecturer Cassie Ryan uses Blackboard with Echo 360 to flip her class. And she is excited about using Echo Cloud to improve the way she does in-class assessments to

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