If you’ve logged into Blackboard today, you may have noticed a new set of tools available to you right on the main “portal” page where your courses are listed. It’s called “Qwickly”. Qwickly is a set of enhancements to Blackboard that can help instructors speed up often time-consuming tasks.
First and foremost, the option of making your courses “available” has always been hard to find. Qwickly allows you to make your courses available/unavailable on the main screen right after you login. You don’t have to visit individual courses! Just click the off/on toggle next to each course to make available to your students.
Qwickly also has the ability to e-mail all your classes at once, posting announcements to all classes at once, and even taking attendance right in Blackboard (yes, finally!). We’ll feature the Qwickly Attendance feature in a future blog post. If you’d like to learn more about Qwickly, reach out your CTLT liaison (Humanities faculty can contact Mike Dixon at mdixon4@richmond.edu or 289-8066)
