By far the easiest way to embed a You-tube video in a PowerPoint presentation is to use the ISpring Free converter. It's free and easy...

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Just as you can embed videos and PowerPoint presentations in BlackBoard, you can also embed documents.  The advantage to embedding a document is much the...

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1. Create the test items, use one of these methods. one by one importing them from a previous course creating from a word or text...

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You can convert Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer, True/False, Essay, Fill in the blank, and Matching questions from a document into BlackBoard test items thanks to...

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Novelist Chimamanda Adichie's short talk reveals the danger of hearing only one story about a country or person. It leaves us with an inability to...

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You've probably noticed the new way that folks are taking reservations for events.  It's a clickable link to a form in an email. What is that?...

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Voicethreads is a tool that allows you and your students to make comments about graphic content. It looks like this: Uses Explaining graphs and charts Language...

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The process for embedding videos in Blackboard depends on whether you are embedding videos hosted on YouTube or videos from some other source. Choose the...

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