Blackboard

Purpose
Strengths
Workshops and Workshop Handouts

Web Resources
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Purpose

Blackboard Course Management system is a web-based software system which can be used by faculty to support flexible teaching and learning whether your class is taught face-to-face or at a distance. It provides tools and facilities to manage your course as well as content and provides online collaboration and communication. Although this is a text based medium, courses can be enhanced with audio and video.

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Strengths

  1. Provides faculty with flexibility and control over their curriculum content and in the management of that content.
  2. Provides 24 hour access to class information.
  3. Provides open student-to-student and student-to-faculty communication.
  4. Provides a common look-and-feel to all classes making the dissemination of material easier for faculty and students.

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Workshops and Workshop Handouts (Workshop Schedule)

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Two New Classes

Blackboard 7.0: Using the Blog Feature in Blackboard
Prerequisite:

No previous experience necessary

Learn how to use the blog feature to enhance your online or face-to-face class.

Blackboard 7.0: Using the Wiki Feature in Blackboard
Prerequisite:
No previous experience necessary

Learn how to use the wiki feature to enhance your online or face-to-face class.

Blackboard 7.0: Using the Podcast Feature in Blackboard
(Schedule the Podcasting Basics class at training.ship.edu)
Prerequisite:
No previous experience necessary

Learn how to use the Podcast feature to enhance your online or face-to-face class.


 

Blackboard 7.0: Overview (Demo)
Prerequisite:
No previous experience necessary

Learn the basics of Blackboard, Blackboard Course Shell organization and learn the basics of using Blackboard in your face-to-face or online classroom.

 

Blackboard 7.0: Quizzes and Gradebook
Prerequisite:
Basic computer skills including the ability to use a mouse

Learn how to create online quizzes using Respondus. Also covered are how to use the online gradebook and the assignment manager for online submission of assignments.

 

Blackboard 7.0: Managing Content
Prerequisite:
Basic computer skills including the ability to use a mouse

Learn how to upload electronic documents of all types into your course site. Demonstrating new software to add video, audio, and converted PowerPoint files.

 

Blackboard 7.0: Tools, Options and Managing Groups
Prerequisite:
Basic computer skills including the ability to use a mouse

Learn how to use email, discussion board and student groups. Learn how to change the look and feel of your course by adjusting button colors, uploading a banner, and turning off unused tools.

 

Blackboard 7.0: End of Semester Clean-up
Prerequisite:
Basic computer skills including the ability to use a mouse

Learn how to clean up your Blackboard course shell for next semester.

 

Video Help Files From Blackboard

Course Authoring
Discussion Board
Collaboration
Assignments
Gradebook
Managing Groups
Learning Units

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Web Resources

Official Blackboard site
Blackboard site
Blackboard Tutorials
ShipOnline

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