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Teaching TechieYou can be one too!
15-Jan-09 1© Sarah Lelgarde Swart, MM, MLIS – Muskegon Community College Center for Teaching and Learning
THINKING ABOUT YOUR OBJECTIVES AND GOALS
Site Organization
Best Practices: Effective Design Tips
Enrollment Practices at MCC
Textbook Publisher Content Support
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Site Organization• Use of minimal buttons
– Use folders to organize within areas• Consistency is Key• Use pdf and rtf files … but
– Provide text content so that downloads are not necessary to view content
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Effective Design Tips• Communicate regularly with students via
eMail and Announcements• Make students responsible for reading
announcements 3+ times a week• Consistent Organization of site• Remember to make site available!
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Enrollment Practices at MCC• Daily interface with WebAdvisor to update class list
– Students will be hidden when there is a hold issue with the registrar
– List is updated daily• Enrollments for Incompletes must be requested through
OIT• Enrollments for Directed Study must be created through
the registration (datatel) process
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Ask Your Textbook Publisher• Course Cartridge• Other electronic content• Look for Instructor CD and other resources
(often listed in the Teacher’s Edition or on publisher website page for your textbook)
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LEARNING OBJECT TYPES
Folders and Items
Assignments
Tests and Quizzes
External Links
Course Links
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Folders and Items• Best practice: make folders first
– Next Add items– Use Course Links to drive students to other
areas in your course site• Upload items when needed for download,
provide text view on screen (copy/paste)
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Assignment Feature• Within any content area, use the dropdown list to create
assignments (and grade center item!)• Students will be provided with a View/Complete link to
upload a file• No need to create a separate grade center column• ! In green box will indicate paper has been submitted to
you
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Tests and Quizzes• Use POOL MANAGER to create reusable
questions• Use TEST MANAGER to create tests• Use the test link in a course content area to
deploy a test – set options with Test Options link• Grade Center column automatically created
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Test Center Options• Timed quizzes – allow at least 2 minutes
per question (reading and thinking time)• Randomize Questions – students will see
questions in a different order from others• Use Random Block or Pool Upload to use
questions from a pool
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Question Types• Use dropdown list to select question types
– many available!• Can use images for questions and/or
answers• Use Creation Settings to set options for
test, uncheck options not needed
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Links• Use External Links to link to a website on
the Internet (you can set to open in the Blackboard window or a new window)
• Use Course Links to link from one area of your course to another (great for leading students to discussion board directly!)
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