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AI Spark Tips: Generating Grading Rubrics with AI

Within your Blackboard learning management system (LMS) platform, you can use AI to generate rubrics specifically matched to your assignment instructions and the learning outcomes of your course. As you create an assignment, just click Add Rubric, then generate Rubric to reach the AI rubric interface. Cut and paste assignment instructions, course outcomes, and even … Continue reading AI Spark Tips: Generating Grading Rubrics with AI

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AI Spark Tips: NotebookLM for Multimedia Research

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

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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

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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

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Navigating the Future of Learning with Gen AI

As Gen AI (GAI) tools proliferated across the globe during the last few semesters, did you find yourself panicked, excited, or feeling a bit of both? Were you overwhelmed by the implications for academic integrity or overcome by a sense of wonder at the boundless potential to innovate our teaching, learning, and research? However you … Continue reading Navigating the Future of Learning with Gen AI