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When I click on Course Tools on Blackboard, I get a bewilderingly long list including: Basic LTI Tools, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, Brainfuse HelpNow, Cengag
by impendia 7y ago
When I click on Course Tools on Blackboard, I get a bewilderingly long list including:
Basic LTI Tools, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, Brainfuse HelpNow, Cengage Learning MindLinks (TM), Content Market Tools, .... what are all of these things?! I want to track and post grades (and export them to a spreadsheet), mass email my students, post a link to my syllabus and homework assignments. That's it.
Meanwhile, with our recent "upgrade", the option to merge two sections of a course (so that I can email both at the same time) went away. I have to email our tech support (?!) to ask them to do this. Apparently this was supported by a plug-in module (??) from a third-party vendor (??!!!) who went out of business.
If merging two courses is so difficult as to require a third-party solution, then I have to wonder about what Blackboard's codebase looks like.
- keanebean86 7y agoThey seem to have a github https://github.com/blackboard https://github.com/blackboard
- oefrha 7y agoNever mind the useless crap. You’d think the spreadsheet used to enter grades — a core functionality, and the only essential feature I need for a course (everything else can be replaced by a mailing list) — would be at least halfway decent. Nope, it’s the single most horrifying spreadsheet implementation I’ve used in my life.