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Here are some of the new features in Service Pack 6 Interactive Rubrics You can review blog posts and while doing so, pop up a rubric you created and score and give feedback directly into it. Alternatively you can have it as a pop-up list with a box for entering the score. All of this happens within the blog environment without having to go to the grade center. Autosubmissions for quizzes: Quizzes can be set to autosubmit after a certain amount of time. It's really the only way to control this. The status of questions (answered or not), and time remaining can display. OR students can turn it off if this makes them more nervous. Many will feel it gives them more control over their time management. Needs Grading Feature (Grade Center) In the Control Panel chose Grade Center , then Needs Grading . Choose a cat egory of ungraded items . Click an item to grade it. SCORM Shareable content object reference ...

I attended a short 10 minutes session about Blackboard Collaborate. So, remember when the media release came out that Blackboard bought Wimba? Well, I guess Blackboard has converted Wimba's products to be theirs. Things like Wimba Pronto, will now be called Presence and Instant Message. Our Wimba Voice, doesn't really change, but is now called Voice Authoring and Collaboration. The last thing they have added is Web, Video, and Audio Conferencing. I think this is to squeeze out Adobe Connect (as they are not here at the conference). So, what does that mean for those current Wimba subscribers? If you already have Wimba Pronto and Voice, you will be upgraded to the new products starting July 24th. However, if you want Wimba Web, Video, and Audio Conferencing, you will need to purchase this. It looks like Blackboard is starting to take on the products where they would use a 3rd party source now to be products of their own. To read more, go to Blackboard Collaborate .

There are three additional features available in Blackboard you may want to explore. Two of them we'll discuss here and the third, Groups, Cassie and I do with you during our meeting. Blackboard Scholar is a social networked URL keeper - much like Delicious. The building block is free and has been activated by our System Administrator. A tab then appears alongside the Homeroom tab. The student chooses whether it's a course Scholar page or a global Scholar page available from any of the student's courses. Here is how it works: Evaluation : It's integrated with Blackboard and a good way to share web search results because students can invite other students to their page. They can create a "stream" which feeds sites that have the designated keywords. I tried a few and the results weren't worth looking at. A robust service like Delicious can offer the same. Safe Assign is a built-in plagiarism checking service in Blackboard. Instead of choosing...