Web-based Tools and Software
Have you ever been working on your online course and come across an issue and not know where to look for the answer or who you should even reach out…
Open SUNY Affordable Learning Solutions
This site provides a comprehensive list of and descriptions for OER available to faculty along with rules for copyright and using content. It also provides information about how to adopt…
Open Educational Resources Commons
This guide provides a primer on copyright and use permissions. It is intended to support teachers, librarians, curriculum experts, and others in identifying the terms of use for digital resources,…
Stony Brook University: Open Education
Stony Brook University Libraries have compiled an extensive list of OER resources along with information about locating OER and copyright information. Visit the Stony Brook University Libraries Open Education page…
Chris Hollister: Your own personal librarian
GSE friends and colleagues… Many of you know me already, but for those who do not, I am the UB Libraries’ liaison to the Graduate School of Education (GSE). That…
What is SafeAssign?
SafeAssign is an instructional tool that is built into UBlearns (Blackboard Learn) that can check a student’s submitted assignment for originality. The Originality Report is designed to aid instruction on…
Top 5: Instructional advantages to using UBbox
UBbox is a cloud storage space and online content management system supported by UBIT. It allows you to upload, store, share and collaborate across almost any platform or device in…
Top 5: Grade Center Tools (you may not be utilizing)
5) Needs Grading Needs grading is a section of the Grade Book that streamlines the onscreen display of assignments and calls out those assignments that are submitted and not yet graded…
Pre-Semester Procedures: Is your online course ready for August 29?
We are about a month away from the start of the Fall 2016 semester, and now is the time to start checking off those tasks that come with preparing your…