Author: Eric Knox

Setting Up Packback in Blackboard

Post author By Eric Knox
Post date May 8, 2023

Packback is compatible for integration with most Learning Management System (LMS) platforms, including Blackboard. This article lays out for you how you can go about enabling Packback in Blackboard.

The following articles cover the most important steps to adding Packback to Blackboard:

LMS and Gradebook Sync Setup Guide for Blackboard 1.1 (Blackboard Learn)

LMS and Gradebook Sync Setup Guide for Blackboard 1.3 (Blackboard Ultra)

(Note: Blackboard 1.1 is the Original and Blackboard 1.3 is the Ultra experience.)

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Qwickly Course Tools – Creating Calendar Event

Post author By Eric Knox
Post date April 25, 2022

How to Create a Calendar Event in Qwickly Course Tools

With Qwickly Course Tools, you can inform students of events across multiple courses like office hours or study sessions. Using the calendar tool is one way to ensure increased student participation in scheduled events.

From your Blackboard Ultra Navigation page, click Tools from the menu pane and select Qwickly Course Tools.

In Course Tools, scroll down and select Create Calendar Event.

Next, enter calendar event information such as Location, Date, Start and End time, then click Submit.

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Enabling Respondus Instructor Live Proctoring

Post author By Eric Knox
Post date February 18, 2022

As part of ACC’s license with Respondus, a new addition to the Respondus LockDown Browser tool has recently come online which provides a new synchronous proctoring opportunity. Respondus Instructor Live Proctoring allows an instructor to proctor students remotely using Zoom, Google Meet, or Microsoft Teams, and Respondus LockDown Browser at the same time.

This proctoring option is intended for small classes where the instructor will watch students in real time using a video conferencing system like Zoom. There is no flagging or proctoring alerts with live proctoring but students are still locked into the testing environment with lockdown browser.

Zoom is the recommended tool for use with Instructor Live Proctoring.

Students will use LockDown Browser to take their exams while faculty use Zoom to monitor the student’s webcams for enhanced security. This article provides information on how to enable Respondus Instructor Live Proctoring.

In the class Blackboard, navigate to the Respondus LockDown Browser settings dashboard located under the Course Tools tab.
Click the dropdown arrow next to the exam you wish to enable and click “settings”.
Select the option for “Require Respondus LockDown Browser for this exam”.
Under the Proctoring listing that pops up, select the “Allow live instructor proctoring for this exam (via Zoom, Teams, etc.)”.
Select the video conferencing option you wish to use from the dropdown menu (Zoom is recommended).
Enter a unique “start code” so that students cannot start the exam early.
Click “save and close”.
Provide the date, time, and link to the web conferencing session in your announcements page and wherever else you post your testing information.

Information about the student experience taking an Instructor Live Proctoring exam can be found at this article titled “Availability of Online Testing Platforms (Respondus Monitor and Distance Education Proctoring)”.

To learn more about instructor live proctoring an exam, view the video produced by Respondus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiyaeDGpPrY&w=560&h=315

NOTE: It is recommended that faculty poll their students to determine whether any of them are dual credit and using a school district-issued Chromebook. Most of these devices issued by a school district are heavily locked down and prevent the installation of third party software such as Respondus or Zoom.

In addition, iPads are not compatible with Instructor Live Proctoring due to Apple software limitations that prevent having both LockDown Browser and a web conferencing tool active at the same time. Alternative testing arrangements may need to be made for these students.

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Adding a New Contact in Zoom

Post author By Eric Knox
Post date October 30, 2020

By default, your Zoom contacts directory contains all staff and faculty Zoom accounts from ACC in the All Contacts section.

You can add any external Zoom user as a contact by specifying their email address. After they approve your contact request, you will be able to chat, share images and files, and meet instantly.

To learn more, click Managing Contacts to read the article

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How to Include Audio from a Shared Video in Zoom

Post author By Eric Knox
Post date October 30, 2020

Zoom screen sharing allows you to share the desktop, window, application, or audio/video. Zoom allows you also to send computer audio to the remote attendees when sharing a video or audio clip.

To learn more, click Sharing Computer Sound to read the article.

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Submit A Group Assignments

Post author By Eric Knox
Post date June 19, 2020

Submitting A Student Group Assignment
On the course menu, select the link that holds the group assignment, such as “Assignments.” Select the name of the group assignment. …
On the Upload Assignment page, review the instructions, due date, points possible, and download any files provided by your instructor.
Your instructor can display group assignments in different areas of your course. You might access group assignments from links on the course menu called “Assignments” or “Groups.” Or, your instructor might incorporate group assignments into each week’s content. Group assignments may also appear in the My Groups panel after the course menu. Ask your instructor if you have questions about how your course is organized.

Remove Formatting after Copying + Pasting from Microsoft Word

Post author By Eric Knox
Post date June 3, 2020

Whenever you copy and paste text from a Word document to a Blackboard text editor, you’ll notice the formatting copies over. You’ll want to remove the formatting for the text to appear correctly on Blackboard. Luckily, there’s a way to do that.

First, copy the text you want to bring over from a Word document to Blackboard. Highlight the text and press Ctrl + C on the keyboard (Cmd + C on a Mac) or right-click the text and select Copy.
Go to the Blackboard text editor and paste the text, either by pressing Ctrl + V on the keyboard (Cmd + V on a Mac) or right-click the text and select Paste. Notice the formatting carries over.
Highlight the entire text, and locate the Remove Formatting icon.
The formatting has now been removed.