A countinuous assessment experience in the undergraduate nursing course

Modern technologies and their associated tools made available at the service of teaching are increasingly developed and closed to teachers and students.The degree in Nursing has half of its teaching load associated with the practical component, but it still has some curricular units (CU) with theoretical or practical components that, while maintaining the requirement, must be adapted to the innovative trends provided by technologies. This article describes the way as CU of Epidemiology used the resources of the BlackBoard™ teaching support platform to promote involvement and learning of its students. Because of this change in the method of teaching epidemiology we obtained better outcomes in the global achievements that leaded to better final classifications when compared to the previous year evaluation of the same CU.