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5 Digital tools for making the virtual classroom more inclusive

Neo LMS

Education used to be associated with classrooms and chairs, desks, and blackboards. Compatible with iPad, Android, Chromebooks, and all available browsers, this tool brings teachers the benefits of a whiteboard and multimedia animation software. Read more: 7 digital portfolio guidelines for outstanding learning performance.

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How Colleges Can Improve Accessibility In Remote Courses

Edsurge

After all, “it's not just enough to put materials in Blackboard if it's not going to be accessible,” says Jennifer Albat, instructional designer at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. And then we did some webinars for Blackboard Basic, Zoom, TechSmith Relay, and even Microsoft Teams. Physical accessibility.

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3 LMS adoptions that go way beyond the basics

eSchool News

Developed by Blackboard, Desire2Learn, itslearning, Takai, Canvas, and a host of others, these solutions focus on helping educators organize and orchestrate learning tools, educational approaches, and whole courses. Any time schools get a new software program, they tend to pick off the low hanging fruit—i.e.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join us at [link] Zoom is a videoconferencing software and that’s our starting point. DIRECTIONS: We will use Blackboard collaborate to explore the digital resources. Guidelines on how to take part and the tasks to be solved and the digital products to create will be shared. DIRECTIONS: 1. The link above is to our webinar room.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. Inside Higher Ed examines the challenges facing LMS provider Blackboard. Edsurge offers “Your Guide to Running a School Like Disney World.” ” Oh. ” Nope.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Department of Education has released its newly proposed guidelines for school accountability. The Common Core aligned reading software maker had raised $1.8 ” Trends to watch: investors’ interest in English language learning (software). More via The New York Times. More via Politico. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

of Maryland Removes ‘Misogynistic’ Guidelines for TAs.” ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “Comparing the First Ten Years of Blackboard and Instructure in LMS Market.” A Historian Says They Should Capitalize on the Hype.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “U.