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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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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! […]

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 […]

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 […]

​ These are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra that will be live Thursday, January 9th. The most relevant updates are related to 3 key areas: Instructional design Mastery learning and learning pathways and Gradebook Learn more about the full update at Anthology’s Blackboard website here!   Instructional Design Improvements […]

A few weeks ago, some faculty members and Innovative Learning noticed a technical issue with audio feedback when instructors are providing feedback to students on graded course content. Students would not be able to access or listen to the playback in Blackboard. This issue was raised with Anthology and, after further investigation, it has been […]

All Winter 2025 courses have been created in Blackboard and can now be accessed by instructors and staff that have been assigned to courses in Banner. Winter 2025 courses can be found by navigating to the courses page in Blackboard. At this time, please consider exporting your course from the Fall 2024 term for safe keeping, and if you […]

These are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra that will be live Thursday, December 5th. The most relevant updates are related to 4 key areas: Instructional design; Communication and collaboration; Flexible grading; and the Gradebook. Instructional Design Navigation Added for LTI and SCORM Items within Learning Modules Instructors use learning […]