BlackBoard is one of my biggest concern @ Baruch. If I were hired by Baruch to use new media to improve the College, I would concentrate on improving communication on Blackboard taking advantages of new media involving in technology. My suggestion is to make Blackboard becomes more responsive and easy to access. Nowadays, creating an app used on smartphone isn't too hard, why don't we create a Blackboard app that can be used the same way as Facebook or Twitter? I think it's too complicated and inconvenient to access to Blackboard through website. That's the reason most of students hardly check their blackboard. If we had a Blackboard app in our phone, it would be very easy to get notification and make communication between us becomes more responsive. The app doesn't need to be very details but should be included essential feature such as update new posts by professor, assist discussion broad, access to material,...
Hey Mi, I think it is a great idea to create a Blackboard app. Like you said people usually don't check their blackboard through the website. There were numerous times when I went to class and it was cancelled. When a professor cancels a class, it usually shows up on Blackboard but most of us don't check it when we wake up. It would definitely be helpful if there was a Blackboard app that can notify us when class is cancelled.
ReplyDeleteAnd it would be perfect it will merge baruchmail and blackboard together so that we dont need to check to many things!
DeleteIt is a great idea to create an app for blackboard with only key features included, notifications, announcement, and grades. And the issue I have with the use of BlackBoard is that it doesn't seem to be compatible with IOS 6, which is really frustrating.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with having an application for blackboard. This would increase the speed of checking out the information posted on blackboard by a good amount. Also i think if the teachers could email us on this same app, that can help us out a great deal as well.
ReplyDeleteI believe that there is already a Blackboard app called Blackboard mobile and it costs two dollars, however many functions do not work. You can see updates, but can't open any files or pdfs. It has potential, but for the mean time it needs some more work.
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