Level Up Your Course: Join Us for Blackboard Week (August 10th–14th)
Daily webinars to optimize your Fall courses
As we gear up for the FA2026 semester, Instructional Technology is hosting Blackboard Week from August 10th to August 14th. Whether you are completely new to Blackboard or a seasoned pro looking...
Posted: July 28, 2026, 10:00 AM
From Authentic Learning to Competency Recognition: The Designing Microcredentials Online Course Is Here
How to turn your learning experience into a microcredential
During Winter 2026, we held a Microcredential Mapping bootcamp for faculty and the Designing Learning & Microcredentials Beyond the Classroom series for staff. We received strong interest in...
Posted: July 27, 2026, 8:05 AM
Your Teaching Already Does This. Let's Make It Count.
What faculty said after a bootcamp on microcredential design
This is the second post in our series on the new LER briefs. Catch the intro post here if you missed it. In January, six faculty members spent two days in UMBC's first Microcredential Mapping...
Posted: July 22, 2026, 8:35 AM
10 Ways to Make Your Slide Decks Accessible
Same principles apply to PowerPoint, Google Slides, or Canva
Slide decks get built fast. A lecture the night before, a workshop the morning of -- we’ve all done it. Accessibility is often the first thing to slip when you're racing a deadline. But a few...
Posted: July 21, 2026, 10:30 AM
Blackboard Launches New Gradebook on August 7
Same grades, less clicking.
After a year-long redesign with faculty feedback sessions – including on-site at UMBC – Blackboard will launch a new gradebook starting August 7, 2026. The redesigned gradebook grid view will...
Posted: July 20, 2026, 10:00 AM
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