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Video Demo of UMBC's "Check My Activity" Tool for Students
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Fritz, John – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2010
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) uses a Blackboard course management system (CMS) to support faculty and students. To supplement the CMS, the university created a custom "Check My Activity" (CMA) self-service feedback tool for students. In addition to comparing their online course activity against a class average,…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Database Management Systems, Courseware, Technology Uses in Education
U-Pace: Facilitating Academic Success for All Students
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Reddy, Diane M.; Fleming, Raymond; Pedrick, Laura E.; Ports, Katie A.; Barnack-Tavlaris, Jessica L.; Helion, Alicia M.; Swain, Rodney A. – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2011
Because the transition to a knowledge-based economy requires an educated workforce, colleges and universities have made retention of students--particularly those who are academically underprepared--an institutional priority. College completion leads to economic and social advancement for students and is also critical to the nation's economic and…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Student Attitudes, Academic Achievement, Online Courses
Project Blackbird: Deploying Condor in a Blackboard Environment
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Hoover, Sam – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2009
Clemson University implemented Condor architecture on the Blackboard learning management system (LMS) application servers in order to gain higher throughput when processing Blackboard course archives. Condor has typically been used for high-throughput research computing, not applied to non-research problems involving long processing times. This…
Descriptors: Chalkboards, Courseware, Database Management Systems, Information Management