Educators in elementary and secondary schools need to communicate with parents with clarity and consistency. Communication can be as simple as sending completed assignments home…
Poet Ponders the Digital
Tag: LMS
Learning Management System (LMS) design must address the needs of three (or more) user audiences, including: teachers, students, administrators, and sometimes guardians. Blackboard dominates the…
Blackboard Learn Ultra is not Blackboard, at least not the familiar Blackboard Learning Management System I’ve used for many years. Though the changes might seem…
Schools, from K12 to universities, rushed online after March 13, 2020. Sadly, the COVID-19 coronavirus and poor online education pedagogy and design went hand-in-hand thanks…
The university at which I’m teaching uses the D2L (Desire2Learn) Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS). The Brightspace LMS is a cloud-based, managed service. This means…
Yes, I’ve been away for a couple of weeks, traveling with my children from Western PA to the California Coast. While we were in California,…
Asked to summarize my research projects… Curiously, beyond the theses and dissertation, all my work is in the economics of media and narrative. I ask…
Earlier this semester, there was a “glitch” with the Blackboard shell for my writing course. I had spent hours and hours uploading content, organizing the…
Back to school means back to Blackboard. My frustration with most learning management system (LMS) platforms is well known. The administration of a class, depending…
I teach at a small regional and it is making some positive moves to foster online and traditional courses that are compelling for students. We…