Thinking aloud is a simple yet powerful cognitive tool that anyone can use. When students verbalize their thinking process, they slow down, clarify their understanding or misunderstanding, and make their implicit knowledge explicit. They’re not just giving an answer; they are explaining the how and the why of the answer. When students share their thinking, they can: 1. Spot flawed connections or incomplete … Continue reading AI Resilient Learning is All Around Us
AI Spark Tips: Increasing Accessibility with AI
As all public US higher education institutions embrace our digital accessibility upgrade, GenAI tools can help instructors tackle some of the most challenging images and documents. Sample File with Low-Quality Text Scan GenAI accessibility checking is already embedded in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) to help detect common issues and … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Increasing Accessibility with AI
AI Spark Tips: Using Copilot to Free up Time for Real Interactions
When we talk about generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), it can be easy to focus on sensational stories about deepfakes, AI relationships, or humans offloading so much of their work that AIs are just summarizing and evaluating other AI's reports. The greatest impact of AI isn't in the splashy story, though. It's in the small, AI-enabled … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Using Copilot to Free up Time for Real Interactions
AI Spark Tips: From Curiosity to Confidence: Improving Assignment Instructions with the OLC Course Review Assistant GPT
If you’re curious about ChatGPT.Edu but haven’t quite figured out how it fits into your teaching, you’re not alone. AI suggestions for course materials can fall flat when using a generic AI, but you may be surprised by what you find when you use a customized GPT designed by instructors for instructors. The Online Learning … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: From Curiosity to Confidence: Improving Assignment Instructions with the OLC Course Review Assistant GPT
AI Spark Tips: When Students Ask at 2 a.m.
How Blackboard's AVA Supports Learning Without Replacing You We've all done it. We know the answer is in the user guide or instruction manual, but we don't want to skim the whole document. Students feel the same way about the course syllabus. They know the answer is in the syllabus, but they don't know where … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: When Students Ask at 2 a.m.
Blackboard Day 2026: Accessible Learning
Join us January 7, 2026 for our 7th Annual Blackboard Day in the Olin B. Sansbury Campus Life Center, Room 310, by accessing Zoom in the CAIFS PD Course, or by using the Zoom Link! Register Now 9 am to 9:45 am Welcome and Blackboard Learn Ultra Updates Join the Blackboard Support Team to learn … Continue reading Blackboard Day 2026: Accessible Learning