Google's NotebookLM can be an innovative partner as you design instructional materials. Upload up to 20 sources--including YouTube videos and audio files--then ask NotebookLM to create summaries, notes, assessment questions, and even an AI-generated podcast conversation based on the sources you select. It is important to be attentive to FERPA, data privacy, copyright and intellectual … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: NotebookLM for Multimedia Research
AI Spark Tips: Personalize Student Coaching with AI
ContactNord's AI Tutor Pro offers students opportunities to chat with AI to either check their knowledge and skills or deepen their knowledge on a topic. Students select their learning level (e.g., undergraduate or graduate), level of difficulty (introductory through advanced), their preferred language, and the topic or content they wish to explore. AI Tutor Pro … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Personalize Student Coaching with AI
AI Spark Tips: AI Conversations for Students
Guide students to prepare for interviews, debates, or meetings with marketing clients, patients in healthcare settings, or other professionals in your discipline using artificial intelligence. The AI Conversation tool, built into your Blackboard course, enables students to work with AI in a controlled environment. You set the topic, you define the conversation persona, select Role … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: AI Conversations for Students
Blackboard Day 2025: Reaching Greater Heights with AI and Universal Design
Join us for our 5th Annual Blackboard Day in the College of Arts & Sciences Building, by accessing Zoom in the CAIFS PD Course, or by using the Zoom Link! Register Now 9 am to 9:30 am Welcome and Blackboard Learn Ultra Updates Join the Blackboard Support Team to learn what is new in the … Continue reading Blackboard Day 2025: Reaching Greater Heights with AI and Universal Design
Active Learning Leads to Student Success
Ten years ago, USC Upstate launched its first Active Learning Institute and installed its first active learning classrooms with support from a Title III federal grant. Today, we have 11 state-of-the-art, flexible classrooms in 6 buildings and 100s of enrollments in active learning classes each year. The results of this 10-year effort are impressive. Over … Continue reading Active Learning Leads to Student Success
Blackboard Ultra Courses Increase Student Activity and Student Engagement at USC Upstate
Beginning with Fall 2024, new courses in the University of South Carolina Learning Management System (LMS) will be created in Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View. Based on a comparison of student activity in Ultra v. Original courses, this change has the potential to improve student engagement, increase student activity, and lead to greater student success. … Continue reading Blackboard Ultra Courses Increase Student Activity and Student Engagement at USC Upstate