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Qwickly Course Tools – Sending an Email

How to send an email using Qwickly Course Tools

Qwickly Course Tools increases the efficiency of communicating with members of multiple courses as well as simplifying tasks that need to be done repetitively in each course an instructor teaches.

  1. From your Blackboard Ultra Navigation page, click Tools from the menu pane and select Qwickly Course Tools.
    Blackboard Ultra Navigation Tools page
  2. Select Send Email (A) from the Course Tools list. Select the course(s) you’d like to email in the left hand course list (B). Choose whether you would like to send the email to everyone or a specific role(s). Enter an email subject and compose the body of the email. Add an attachment if needed (C). You can choose to send yourself a copy of the email as well. Once complete, click Send.Send Email Qwickly Tool

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Zoom Meeting: Preassigning Meeting Participants to Breakout Rooms

As a meeting host, you can split your meeting participants into breakout rooms when scheduling the meeting. This can be useful if you already know how you want to split up your participants.

You can also manage your breakout rooms during the meeting.

The tutorial video below demonstrates the following aspects of pre assigning breakout rooms:

  • Creating preassigned breakout rooms
  • Importing a CSV file for preassigned breakout rooms
  • Deploying preassigned breakout rooms in a meeting

Supplemental Resources Document:  PPT tutorial slideshow of the steps demonstrated in the instructional video.

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Training Recording: Creating & Grading with Rubrics in Blackboard

This is a recording from a Remote Recess workshop held March 2, 2021. The training covered how to create and grade with Rubrics in Blackboard Learn.

Supplemental Resources Document:  helpful links and resources referenced during workshop.

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Remote Recess Workshop: Format Tests in Respondus 4.0

Respondus 4.0® is a software tool to develop and manage Blackboard exams and is available free to ACC faculty for both their office and home computers. Respondus also enables instructors to upload exams into Blackboard without having to retype those questions in Blackboard.

Note: The authoring tool is currently available to PC users only.  For Mac users, Respondus is accessible to faculty on the Virtual Desktop.

Supplemental Resources Document:  helpful links and resources referenced during workshop.

Create and Publish Tests

Additional Respondus Resources

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