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Print a Rubric for Saving or Grading in Blackboard’s November Update

Also available: Find any student in a group set

It’s week eight, and a student emails asking to move to a new project team. Every student in your 30-person group set is already assigned, so finding her means opening group after group until her...

Posted: October 29, 2026, 11:07 AM

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6 Ways to Make Humanities Content More Accessible

The text matters. So does whether students can reach it.

A student pulls up the assigned primary source the night before class: a scanned nineteenth-century pamphlet, photographed at an angle, half the page lost in shadow. She can make out maybe...

Posted: October 27, 2026, 12:00 PM

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Fix Your Content Day: A campus-wide day of course accessibility fixes

November 10th: 1,600 fixes. 160 courses. One day.

Fix Your Content Day is a campus-wide accessibility sprint happening on November 10, 2026. For one day, faculty and staff across UMBC will come together, virtually and in person, to tackle...

Posted: October 22, 2026, 10:00 AM

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