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by Beth Stinson

The On Demand Learning Center Celebrates 1 Million Hits

Entering into our second Back to School season, the On Demand Learning Center continues to provide popular video tutorials and quick start guides to support students and teachers working in Blackboard Learn. After our first full year of recording statistics, we logged over 1 million page views! If you haven’t yet visited On Demand, you’ll find lots of short how-to videos and getting started guides covering course design, tool use, and much more. The On Demand Learning Center content is sorted into four main areas: • Understanding and Building Your CourseCommunicating and CollaboratingAssessing LearnersFor Students Get the most out of the new school year using Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP6 by watching our newest movies: • Creating a RubricAssociating a Rubric with a Gradable ItemGrading with RubricsSetting the Needs Grading Status and Grading Interactive ToolsSetting Test Options (including setting the test timer) We are also delighted to share Using Web 2.0 Tools in Your Course to show you how easy it is to integrate free web 2.0 tools into your Blackboard course. This document, with content contributed by Dr. Torria Bond from California Baptist University, provides descriptions and ease of use ratings for 14 popular web 2.0 tools that can be embedded into Blackboard to stimulate communication and collaboration. Developing new material for the On Demand Learning Center is ongoing. Let us know how we are doing or send us any suggestions for new content using our feedback form.