Blackboard offers a variety of ways to organize content in your course site. Good course design allows students to easily locate the information they need. You may choose to organize by topics, ...

UB is required to provide students with disabilities with access to our courses and programs. Designing courses with accessibility in mind is critical to ensuring that everyone can participate and ...

Divide large blocks of text into smaller more manageable sections, avoid complex sentences, and use sans-serif font at approximately 12 points. For every non-text element such as image, chart or graph ...

Course content is available in a variety of formats (e.g., digital and print) and from a variety of sources, including instructor-created. Consider using diverse types of content throughout your ...

Teaching something well and making a video about teaching something well are two completely different skills. Most educators figure this out the hard way — they know their subject deeply, they’re ...

Consider creating a library of microlearning courses that your students can access when they need to; if they “pull” the content from you, rather than you “pushing” the content at them, their ...

Course climate encompasses the intellectual, social, emotional, and physical environment where students engage in learning. It’s shaped by factors like course demographics, the physical setting, ...