In the past, people have asked how to set things up on Blackboard so that students have to accept some terms and conditions before they can access a particular piece of content. This can be done with a combination of an Assessment (i.e. a quiz) and the Selective Release functionality. This article describes what this solution looks like and goes through the steps required to achieve it. The steps should take no longer than about 15 minutes to carry out and in doing so you will learn about both the Grade Book and the Selective Release functions in Blackboard.

As I’m about to leave for the day, I can’t help but wonder what’s going to happen this evening.
What am I talking about? Well obviously the much talked about announcement sometime today (5pm on the west coast of the USA?) of the eagerly awaited Apple tablet computer of course…what else? I’m not really [...]

Many of you will have noticed Visualisers appearing in more and more lecture theatres around campus. They’re, in my opinion at least, a fantastic technolgy. They are extremely simple to use and have the potential to open up a whole new array of materials to a lecturer. They’re also very much under-utilized. (As a brief [...]

A number of things from the world of e-learning to draw to your attention:
ALT-C, the annual major e-learning conference in the UK, will be held this year in Nottingham. The theme is “Into something rich and strange” – making sense of the sea-change”. Google and Yahoo will be among those presenting.
If you are [...]

QMUL’s lecture capture pilot project, called Q-Review, is approaching the halfway point in its pilot year. While we’ve had our share of hiccups and setbacks, the project is progressing well. We’ve learned a lot about best practice for the system and are looking forward to disseminating this when the project enters its production phase.
So… what [...]