{"id":129101,"date":"2020-07-13T15:57:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T19:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=129101"},"modified":"2025-06-26T11:45:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T15:45:16","slug":"bulb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/services\/cccs\/websites\/www\/wordpress\/how-to\/bulb\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Learning Blocks (BULB)"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is BU Learning Blocks (BULB)?<\/h2>\n

BU Learning Blocks (BULB) is an innovative way for instructors to create open and iterative educational resources within WordPress using the Gutenberg editor. When installed, you can create lessons\u2013either as stand-alone pages or as an ordered sequence of multiple lesson pages. You can order and arrange BULB question types within pages. You can insert questions directly into multimedia lessons alongside any combination of text, images, and video to test student\u2019s comprehension synchronously while working their way through your lesson.<\/p>\n

BULB in its current iteration does not collect user data on who and how many people answer questions, so it is not meant for assessing or grading students\u2019 responses. Instead, BULB prioritizes using question blocks as a means of achieving learning goals and reinforcing self-study. Questions can be reset until students get the right answer. And students can always revisit pages to start fresh. Question types include: Calculated Numeric (for questions with a numeric answer), Multiple Answer, Multiple Choice, True\/False, and Fill in the Blank.<\/p>\n

What can BULB be used for?<\/h2>\n

BULB is great for providing open lessons online for your classes. It helps encourage active learning through student engagement with self-assessment questions. In the short-term, it can serve as a collection of lessons or exercises used to reinforce course content. It can serve as a single space that all students, where in-person or online, can access and learn. Over time, faculty can create entire digital workbooks that they can have students use (at no cost) over multiple semesters. In the long term, we hope some faculty will choose to use BULB to create no cost alternatives to pricey textbooks in order to help build a more accessible and inclusive classroom.<\/p>\n

Who can use it?<\/h2>\n