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0 EdTech Essentials: Level Up Learning with Gamification

This post explores how gamification can enhance teaching and learning by boosting motivation, engagement, and collaboration. Learn how to integrate game mechanics like points, badges, and challenges into your course design—and join us for a hands-on workshop to discover practical tools and strategies for gamifying your classroom.
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0 AI Ready: Making Case Studies Interactive with AI

AI can streamline the creation of compelling, interactive case studies—turning complex data into stories that captivate and inform. This post explores how faculty can use AI tools to accelerate content generation, enhance storytelling, and build visually engaging case studies that leave a lasting impression on students and academic audiences. Continue Reading AI Ready: Making Case Studies Interactive with AI

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0 Bb Mailbag: Summer 2025 Courses are Now Available

Summer courses for the 202530 term are now available on Blackboard. If you don’t see a course you were expecting, check with your department chair to ensure you’ve been assigned as the instructor. If you’re teaching multiple sections, consider requesting a course merge to streamline your updates. Be sure to request merges early, as merged courses start blank, and publisher content may need to be reconfigured. Read the post for other helpful tips! Continue Reading Bb Mailbag: Summer 2025 Courses are Now Available

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0 AI Ready: Lacunae Found – Student-Generated Practice Tests

As the semester comes to a close, faculty often reflect on what worked, what didn’t, and what may have been overlooked. AI can support this process by helping students identify gaps in their learning—and in the syllabus itself. By generating AI-assisted practice test questions, students can uncover topics that were underexplored and provide meaningful feedback for future course improvement. This post explores how to implement this assignment, guide students through reflection, and use AI to enhance course design. Continue Reading AI Ready: Lacunae Found – Student-Generated Practice Tests

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0 Bb Mailbag: Verify Course Functionality Using Student Preview

Ensuring your Blackboard course functions as intended is essential for delivering a seamless student experience. Blackboard’s Student Preview Mode allows you to view your course exactly as students do, helping you verify that content, assessments, and navigation are working properly. By using this feature, you can catch potential issues before students encounter them, creating a smoother and more effective learning experience. Continue Reading Bb Mailbag: Verify Course Functionality Using Student Preview

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0 AI Ready: Practical Guidelines for Empowering Students with Ethical AI Use in Assessments

As AI tools like ChatGPT become more integrated into higher education, faculty face new challenges in maintaining academic integrity. Rather than banning AI, faculty can teach students how to use it ethically to enhance their learning. One practical strategy is to require students to submit a link to their ChatGPT conversation with their assignment. This ensures transparency, allows faculty to see how AI contributed, and provides an opportunity to offer feedback on refining prompting techniques. In this post, we’ll explore how to implement ethical AI practices in assessments and provide resources to support AI literacy. Continue Reading AI Ready: Practical Guidelines for Empowering Students with Ethical AI Use in Assessments

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