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Transcript of Using Blackboard: Getting Started Adam Warren [email protected] 02380 594486.
Using Blackboard:Getting StartedAdam Warren
[email protected] 594486
Session overview what is e-learning?
the user interface
configuring & structuring your course
creating content & uploading documents
creating announcements
sending emails
making your course available
sources of advice and support
This from 100 years ago…
Image from Paleofuture blog at http://www.paleofuture.com
This from 50 years ago…
Image from Paleofuture blog at http://www.paleofuture.com
The Iceberg model
face-to-face teaching
directed learning
independent learning
Roger Ottewill (CLT) On the Horizon 10,1 2002
assessed tasks
preparation& reflection
mastery
Supporting independent learning
administrative information:• handbook• timetable• reading list• assessment
lecture support:• handouts• presentations• worksheets• additional reading• selected web links
communication:• announcements• email to students• discussion forums• FAQ• course blog
online learning activities:
formativetests and
online submission
multimediaresource
collections
instructionsand tasksequence
structureddiscussions,
blogs andwikis
The life-cycle of an online course
1. discuss and agree aims
2. develop activities and resources
3. make course available
4. use to support learning and teaching
5. evaluate feedback from students
6. rollover course for following year
7. update activities and resources
Units and Blackboard courses
University ‘module’ = Blackboard ‘course’– automatically created for all modules– based on data in Banner
Introduction to Astronomy and Space Science GAINS: PHYS1005 CRN: 12232
– new course created each year
main tutor = Blackboard instructor
automatic enrollment of registered students
Banner courses and arbitrary courses
Students must self-enrol or be added manually by an instructor
Students listed in Banner as enrolled on a course unit are automatically enrolled on the equivalent Blackboard course.
Can also be added manually by an instructor or self-enrol (if allowed)
Students
The member of staff who requests the course is set as the instructor
They may add colleagues as instructors
Any member of staff listed by their school as teaching a course in Banner will automatically be made an instructor on the equivalent Blackboard course.
They may add colleagues as instructors
Instructors
Courses are created upon request
Can be for any purpose, e.g. year group, project
All courses are created automaticallye.g. MANG1001, SPRT2002
Programmes of study are not created, only course modules.
Course
ArbitraryBanner
03-04-Unit name-12345 04-05-Unit name-12345
content
discussion forums
settings
Course rollover
content
discussion forums+ messages
students students
settings
Information and advice
iSolutions– training and technical support– http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/comput
ing/elearn/blackboard/staffindex.html
Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit– educational advice, support and training– www.soton.ac.uk/lateu