10 Tips to Develop Persistence - Elusive Life Persist (intransitive verb, \pər-ˈsist, -ˈzist\ ): to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning. (via Merriam-Webster) Persistence is attributed by many as a crucial key to success. The problem is that, for most of us, persistence is not natural; we prefer instead to follow the path of least-resistance. The good news is that persistence is a trait that can be developed. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Start including these tips into your daily routine and you will find yourself inching closer toward your goals! What have you done in your own life to develop persistence and achieve your goals? “As long as there’s breath in you – PERSIST!” Image Credit: Flickr user pyjama
How to Download Assignments - Blackboard Help You can download assignment submissions to review them offline instead of reviewing them online. Choose to download all or only selected submissions as a single ZIP file. Unzip or expand the file to view the contents. Each submission is saved as a separate file. Windows and Mac computers have built-in capabilities to view and extract compressed ZIP file packages. How to Download Assignments In the Grade Center, locate the column for the assignment you want to download. In the pop-up window, click Save File and click OK. When you use the download function, usernames are included automatically in the file names for easy identification. If a student added an attachment, the downloaded ZIP file may contain two files for each student: the attached file and a TXT file produced by the Grade Center that contains information about the submission and student comments. The Assignment File Cleanup function allows you to select students and delete files associated with their submissions.
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tips4teaching | Ideas and resources for teachers Regrading tests Let's say we gave students a Blackboard test, the students have submitted their answers, and, we then discover that one of the questions has an incorrect right answer or point value. Happens all the time. In older versions of Blackboard, you'd have to manually grade every student's test again, and then, manually change the points for each question you messed up test by test. It took forever. And to edit the test, there are several different ways to get to it. All three take you to the same place and all three are going to show you this orangish yellow box at the top of the page, saying this test has a certain number of attempts. And click on Submit and Regrade. So, we showed you how to change the point value to make it extra credit, to give it full credit. Finally, to delete a question, basically in the test canvas, what you're going to do is click a check box to the left of the question, scroll up or down, and click Delete and Regrade.
Rubrics for Assessment Teachers who integrate technology into student activities and projects often ask us this question - “How do I grade it?” Fundamentally, assessing multimedia activities and projects is no different than evaluating traditional assignments, such as written essays. The primary distinctions between them are the unique features and divergent possibilities associated with their respective medium. For instance, a blog has a unique set of possibilities (such as hypertext, embedded video, interactive imagery, etc) vastly different than those of a notebook (paper and pen notes and drawings within a contained document). The first thing to realize is that you cannot separate the user from the device. iPads, Chromebooks, and tech tools themselves don’t demonstrate great learning; it’s about what students do with the technology that matters. The technology itself is simply neutral.
5 Strategies for Fostering a Collaborative Culture in a PBL Classroom As a middle school teacher I understand that my students are at a developmental crossroads. They want to be seen as independent, responsible adults but at the same time still need guidance in order to be successful. This makes this age both challenging and rewarding to work with, as it allows me as a teacher to help them as they become the independent students they see themselves to be. It is not uncommon for teachers new to Project Based Learning to express skepticism or concern about “dropping the reins” and allowing students to take more control over the pace and scope of their learning. How to start this process is a common question. Although it can look different in every class, here are some possible approaches that may prove successful with your own students. Make sure team members know what is expected of them If not everyone is clear about the goals for the day or the tasks that they’ve been assigned, nothing will get done successfully.
Viewing the student results and question item analysis So now that our students have completed our test, we need to review their grades. I'm going to switch over to a different course that actually contains some completed and submitted tests. This is going to be the third educational technology course. To view student test results, you need to open up the grade center. Either way it doesn't really matter. For most types of Blackboard quizzes Blackboard automatically grades the student's responses and enters a score. Blackboard can't grade essays, we have to grade them by hand. It's a kind of a nice way to make sure that you're unbiased in your grading. And there's a dash here in the essay. When I'm done, I can either hit Save and Next, or in this case, I'm going to Save and Exit. So quiz two didn't have any manually graded questions. What this is going to do is it's going to show you a copy of your quiz With an average score for each question, and answer distributions by percentage. Item Analysis is brand new in service pack 10 and later.