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March 24th – April 15th is SFQ Season for 14-week courses!   Student Feedback Questionnaires (SFQs) invite students to provide anonymous feedback on their learning experience in each course each semester to support our shared commitment to ensuring the quality of our academic programs at Humber. Student feedback is anonymous and confidential, and is not used […]

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These are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra that will be live Thursday, April 3rd. The most relevant updates are related to a few key key areas: Instructional design Communication & Collaboration and Gradebook Learn more about the full update at Anthology’s Blackboard website here!   Instructional Design Content Designer: […]

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Starting soon: March 24th – April 15th is SFQ Season for 14-week courses! Before SFQ’s begin for your course, instructors can add up to three personalized Likert scale questions and three personalized open-ended questions to the SFQ. This is a helpful way to tie the SFQ to your specific content, teaching practices, and initiatives and can […]

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As previously announced, updates to Panopto video storage are underway. Archived videos are scheduled for removal on March 9, 2025. If you’d like to keep any of these, you can restore them from the archive and download them before this date, then save them to OneDrive for long-term storage. Further details can be found in the announcement, and the Innovative […]

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These are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra that will be live Thursday, March 6th. The most relevant updates are related to a few key key areas: Instructional design Mastery learning and learning pathways Tests & assignments and Gradebook Learn more about the full update at Anthology’s Blackboard website here! […]

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Here are the highlights of faculty questions from February. These are not necessarily the most frequently asked questions, but helpful for all faculty members to know!   Question: How do I set due date or time limit accommodations? Answer: Access the Roster of your course. The Roster is located on the left hand side, under […]

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These are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra that will be live Thursday, February 6th. The most relevant updates are related to a few key key areas: Instructional design Tests & assignments Communication & collaboration and Gradebook Learn more about the full update at Anthology’s Blackboard website here!   Instructional […]

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The SFQ Season is fast approaching! The Student Feedback Questionnaire (SFQ) invites students to provide anonymous feedback on their learning experience in support of our shared commitment to ensuring the quality of our students’ learning experiences at Humber every semester. SFQ dates are dependent on the length of a course, opening to students about 70% of the way through […]

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Here are the highlights of faculty questions from January. These are not necessarily the most frequently asked questions, but helpful for all faculty members to know!   Question: How do I setup the Gradebook and the Overall Grade? Answer: Innovative Learning has created a simulation to help you learn to setup your overall grade. If […]

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Now, at around the 2nd and 3rd week of the semester, it is crucial to reach out to students to ensure that they are staying engaged in your course. If students aren’t logging into Blackboard and are missing deadlines, these students may be at risk, and we have an opportunity to help them. There are […]

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