Nursing Education

Kanopy is a video streaming service, offered through VCU Libraries, that provides easy access to more than 26,000 titles on a number of subjects. A recent search on the following broad topics produced the following results: Child Health: 121 videos Mental Health: 443 videos Nursing: 534 videos Everyday health: 714 videos A more refined search […]

Updating dates after you copy a course for the next semester can be very time consuming and result in risk of error.  Blackboard’s Date Management tool simplifies this process by making all due dates and content availability dates visible and editable on a single page.  Try it! Open your course and go to Control Panel […]

At some point, most instructors encounter a situation where a student is unable to complete a test as scheduled or has an accommodation letter for extended time.  It isn’t difficult to provide an alternative in a face-to-face class, but how do you handle such cases with the test is only offered online?  Let’s take a […]

VCU’s Learning Systems department is rolling out a “So You Want To” series of workshops lead by their Learning Support Specialist, Elaine Reeder.  A new workshop called “So You Want to Master the Grade Center,” will be offered on both campuses as shown below: Monroe Park Campus:  10/19 from 2-4pm  Register online MCV Campus: 10/25 from 1:30- 3pm  Register online

If you’ve found yourself working in Excel – or on paper – to drop the lowest of a group of grades (i.e., 1 of 6 quiz grades), this post is for you.  It’s easy to let Blackboard do the work: Create a category in your gradebook or use an existing one Assign that category to […]

Accept more than one multiple choice answer as correct. Whether you teach face to face or online, there are times when the evaluation of student performance on a test will prompt a grade change.  In Blackboard it’s easy to regrade or delete test questions, which immediately updates the scores of all students affected by the change.  But […]

We certainly had our share of bad weather last year, and more is possible on Friday. Weather related events and other situations that result in cancellations or delays highlight the need to have a contingency plan in place. Below are two options available to you at the School of Nursing for the delivery of instructional content outside […]

Have you ever struggled to come up with a name for a fictitious patient?  If so, you might want to take a look at this fake name generator.  Simply enter your preferred nameset, country, gender and age to generate a complete identity that includes name, phone, birthday, occupation, physical characteristics, vehicle information….and more!

While this upgrade isn’t as significant as the last one, there are some exciting new features that you won’t want to miss.  Click the Launch button for a preview. [iframe_loader type=’lightbox’ href=’http://wp.vcu.edu/nursingeducation/wp-content/uploads/sites/5303/articulate_uploads/bbupgrade/story.html’ size_opt=’lightebox_default’]

A best practice when deploying a test on Blackboard is to limit the amount of feedback that individual students can see until after the entire class has completed the assessment. Blackboard’s Test Results and Feedback Options allow instructors to create up to two automated rules that determine what information students receive about their performance on an assessment, […]