It's back-to-school time and whether you’re a parent, teacher or administrator, chances are your students spent a large part of their summer interacting with technology – computers, mobile devices or video games. Now that they are back in the classroom, we are challenged to engage them in their learning.
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The User Experience team in Product Development is tasked with being the advocate for you, Blackboard users. So how do we do that? We ask questions, we watch you use Blackboard software, we read your enhancement requests, we read your bugs reported, we listen to your ideas, we try to replicate what you do in your Blackboard system. With every project we tackle, we aim to increase the amount of user research that serves to influence the design of what is delivered in the product. Here are the types of things we’ve done with you this year:
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