Why should I switch off ad-blockers for Blended Teaching?
Browser ad blockers prevent Blended Teaching from tracking your learning progress and performance, resulting in a worse learning experience for you, less support from your professor, and in extreme cases, lower grades. You can easily switch off ad blockers in your browser for Blended Teaching only, and leave them on for all other websites.
Ad blockers are great software provided by browsers that stop us getting spammed with ads when we go to websites.
Blended Teaching uses the same "ad" technology to help integrate with universities, and track your learning progress, performance and time spent. This is the data needed to help improve your learning experience, and for your professor and university to support you. Some classes even award points based on time spent, or progress achieved.
So switching off ad blockers for Blended Teeaching is important for your learning experience. But don't worry, when you switch it off for Blended Teaching, the technology is still working to block ads on other websites.