Review analytics in Ally
Blackboard Ally offers handy analytics features that reviews and highlights your documents to suggest ways you can make your documents more accessible.
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Prepare your documents to be accessible
- Kiera Marshall
What is it? It is good practice to prepare your documents to be accessible as you create them. This guide will not show you everything you can do but rather make you aware of what tools are available to help make your documents more accessible. What does it do? Blackboard…
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Introduction to Ally
- Kiera Marshall
What is it? Accessible content is better content. Blackboard Ally integrates seamlessly to My Dundee and focuses on making digital course content more accessible. What does it do? Blackboard Ally is a tool that helps ensure digital teaching material is accessible to all students. Once a resource is uploaded to…
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Settings for automatically marked Blackboard assessments
- 08/09/2021
- Kiera Marshall
Once you are comfortable creating tests in Blackboard, you may want to adjust the settings to customise timings, delivery, and feedback.
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Create a Blackboard test or quiz (the basics)
- Kiera Marshall
An automatically marked assignment is an assignment that provides feedback to the student immediately after submitting their answers.
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Create an assignment for a group
- Kiera Marshall
A Blackboard group assignment allows instructors to create a submission point where one single submission can be applied to a pre-determined group of students. Instructors can mark for the group as well as provide custom marks for specific students, and can leave feedback for the group as well as custom feedback for specific students.
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Create a Blackboard assignment
- Kiera Marshall
Blackboard offers the opportunity for continuous assessment through its Tests and Assignments features. Although there are slight differences, they are functionally the same.
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Manage your course availability for students
- Kiera Marshall
Course availability is a setting that allows your module to be locked or available to students.
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Find your class list and edit accommodations
- Kiera Marshall
The class list in Blackboard, is known as the Class Register which can be found in the module on the right-hand details and actions panel.
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Request account for and enrol external examiners
- Kiera Marshall
External examiners are essentially non-UoD staff members that you can temporarily add to your modules for the purposes of assessing work.