Blackboard Tools
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This blog tool allows sharing material created by the group in the course. You can even grade participation in the blog.
The wikis tool allows compiling a lot of information from the entire classroom or from a group of students.
This tool helps motivate students and encourage them to work more and earn rewards (badges or certifications) upon accomplishing tasks or getting a certain grade.
You can use this tool to easily adjust the dates of all the contents in the course.
Unlike wikis and blogs, journals are a private platform between the instructor and each student.
If you want to highlight a different content page every time, use this tool. It will direct the student to your chosen content when they login the course.
A tool used to review assignments and potential plagiarism.
A tool that allows you to create rubrics for you or/and the student to see. It also makes it easier to grade assignment online.
A tool only for instructors that allows them to focus on at-risk students and/or high achievers. Instructors can set their own criteria or stick with the default ones.