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Faculty Request: Show Each Other How Good Students Use Blackboard
May 8, 2009

To help DoIT?s ongoing study of how good students use Blackboard, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) would like to encourage faculty to post their final grades in the Blackboard grade book using ?GRADE? as the column heading (please omit quotes and make the column heading ALL CAPS).



UMBC's Retriever Weekly Features Blackboard Reporting Project
April 7, 2009

Today, UMBC's student newspaper, The Retriever Weekly, published a feature story on the UMBC Blackboard Reports project.



Chronicle of Higher Ed Features UMBC Blackboard Reports
January 13, 2009

This week's Chronicle of Higher Education contains a feature story that looks at the "average hits per user" approach behind UMBC's Most Active Blackboard Courses reports, which are published after the last day of classes each semester.



2/12 Brown Bag to Show How Good Students Use Blackboard
January 7, 2009

UPDATE: Video Archive Now Available

Consistent with a 2008 national study showing students value checking grades more than ANY single function in a course management system like Blackboard, UMBC's first Spring 2008 Teaching, Learning and Technology (TLT) "Brown Bag" workshop will show how and why UMBC instructors may want to influence AND leverage this obsessive "status checking" behavior.



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