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Overview of CCRI’s review process for third-party Blackboard tools to ensure instructional value, security, and compliance.

The article helps CCRI faculty use Microsoft Stream for storing and sharing existing, pre-recorded lecture videos with students in the Blackboard. By leveraging OneDrive + Stream, and setting proper student view permissions, faculty can ensure secure student access, automatic captioning, and WCAG 2.1 compliance while simplifying Blackboard integration.

This guide provides updated instructions for using Microsoft Stream to record, edit, and share lecture videos at CCRI. It includes new AI-driven editing features, detailed steps for ensuring student access across separate Microsoft tenants, and instructions for posting videos in Blackboard using either a direct link or embed code.

Faculty can now easily link or embed research guides from the CCRI Library’s LibGuides system directly in their Blackboard courses.

Your Blackboard username and password are the same as your MyCCRI username and password.

CCRI has launched a new integration with OpenStax Assignable, allowing instructors to link OpenStax textbook content, practice questions, and assignments directly in Blackboard. This tool supports grade syncing and assignment creation within supported OpenStax textbooks. This article provides an overview, setup instructions, and key resources to help faculty get started.

CCRI has completed the migration from the legacy Cengage Building Block (B2) tool to the new Cengage LTI 1.3 Advantage integration in Blackboard, in response to Blackboard's mandatory B2 deprecation by June 2025. This updated integration offers enhanced security, improved grade syncing, and a more reliable connection between Cengage content and Blackboard. Faculty teaching Summer 2025 and beyond must now use the Cengage Content LTI 1.3 tool under the Build Content menu to deploy new links.

This article explains how to create narrated PowerPoint presentations in VoiceThread by uploading slides (preferably as PDFs) and recording audio directly within the platform slide by slide using the comment tool. It also includes tips, tool comparisons, and support resources.

As of January 2025, the Medial building block integration in Blackboard has been officially retired as part of a mandatory system wide update initiated by Blackboard. Existing Medial videos added via the mashup tool are no longer functional and redirect users back to the course dashboard when clicked. To ensure your video content remains accessible, you will need to manually re-embed videos into your Blackboard courses using embed codes from the Medial platform.

Managing your course files in your Blackboard course

This article highlights the Student Preview feature in Blackboard, allowing instructors to experience the course as students. Instructors can use this feature for testing, grade center evaluation, previewing group activities, and checking content availability. The article provides step-by-step guidance on accessing, using, and exiting the Student Preview mode, offering flexibility in retaining or removing the preview account from the course.

Currently the integrated Starfish link in Blackboard is not functioning. A work-around to this is to use the Starfish link located on www.ccri.edu under Login OR Faculty can manually add the Starfish link to their Blackboard course.

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The release of Medial version 8.5 brings significant upgrades to the platform, focusing on user-friendly tools and enhanced functionalities, particularly with the introduction of MEDIALecture Web and substantial improvements across MEDIALibrary and MEDIALearning modules.

The integration of Blackboard with McGraw Hill Connect® and McGraw Hill GO has been updated to include a single access point. For the upcoming term, instructors will encounter a new landing page with various McGraw Hill platforms when course sections are created. It is advised to exclude previous McGraw Hill items during the course copy process for the new term. Instructors should contact their McGraw Hill representative to learn how to prevent copying old McGraw Hill items into the new course