Spring 2025 – ED Tech Digest
April 28, 2025
Creator + and H5PCreator+ and H5P authoring tools have been added to Niagara College’s Brightspace environment. These additions add a variety of easy-to-use tools that will allow faculty to better organize, design, style, and customize their content, as well as providing many new ways to make it more dynamic and engaging for students. Together, Creator+ and H5P offer faculty a range of tools for designing and organizing more interactive content, including: – Callouts, jumbotrons, and stylized quotes...
Winter 2025 – ED Tech Digest
January 10, 2025
Brightspace Course Deactivation In response to student feedback, beginning at the end of the Fall 2024 Term Niagara College will automatically deactivate courses in Brightspace 90 days after course completion. Courses and their content will remain visible and available to faculty but students will not have access to courses from previous terms after deactivation. This procedure will simplify students’ course widget and access to current courses. If faculty need to reactivate courses for any reason, they can...
Ed Tech Digest (Spring 2024)
July 11, 2024
Blackboard Access Expiring After two decades as a trusted partner, Blackboard Original will no longer be available to faculty after April 30, 2024 as Niagara College completes our transition to Brightspace. Faculty who wish to retain content from their last two years of Blackboard courses that were not included in the migration can also do so by making an export file of their course with some or all of the course content. Blackboard export files can...