The new Blackboard Assist page provides students with a central location to access campus and online resources. From this page, students can navigate to various services offered by UAMS. Students and Faculty can access Blackboard Assist from the front page of Blackboard. Simply click Assist on the navigation menu.
Introducing the BeeBee Chatbot
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Improve Your Course Accessibility. Blackboard Ally Pilot Sign-Up.
Beginning Spring 2021, faculty and programs can sign up to enable Blackboard Ally for their courses. What is Ally? Blackboard Ally is a course accessibility tool with multiple features that can help instructors, students, and the institution. It can provide alternative formats, feedback, and accessibility reports. How does Ally help? Alternative Formats. Out of the […]
Save time setting up your Blackboard course. Date Management
The beginning of the semester is a very busy time for all UAMS faculty. It takes a lot of commitment to set up a course for the new term. One pain point we’ve noticed is that it takes a lot of time to change the multitude of due and availability dates within a Blackboard course. […]
Track Attendance With This New Feature
Beginning Spring 2019, UAMS instructors have access to the Blackboard Attendance tool. What does it do? The Attendance feature allows instructors to track attendance on a single page within their Blackboard course. From this page, an instructor can mark students as present, late, absent, or excused. Instructors can do this from their classroom workstation computer […]