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 (Fall 2024)
January 10, 2025
Starting March 28, 2024, changes (detailed below) were made to new Brightspace courses that faculty should continue to be aware of. While these changes will continue in the Fall 2024 semester, keep in mind that copying courses from older semesters may preserve some of the original settings. Please verify that all settings are as you would like them to be. Course Template The Brightspace course template that was automatically applied to all new courses in winter...
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...
Ed Tech Digest (Winter 2022)
December 16, 2022
Winter 2023 – ED Tech Digest The Centre for Academic Excellence is pleased to share another quarterly release of the Ed Tech Digest. The digest is intended to share updates or changes to core technologies used for teaching and learning at Niagara College. Blackboard Updates Upcoming Blackboard Course Site and Collaborate Ultra recording archiving dates As part of the College’s course archiving policy, Blackboard courses and associated Collaborate Ultra recordings with a...
Ed Tech Digest (FALL 2022)
September 1, 2022
The Centre for Academic Excellence is piloting the release of a quarterly digest to share updates or changes to core technologies used for teaching and learning at Niagara College. The digest was created to provide faculty with information and resources to support their use of educational technologies. Blackboard Updates Upcoming Blackboard Course Site and Collaborate Ultra recording archiving dates As part of the College’s course archiving policy, Blackboard courses and associated Collaborate Ultra recordings with...