Transcript Blackboard Discussion Board - USC Dana and David Dornsife

Blackboard 9
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What’s New
Marly Miller • BCT • CST
ACB 238 • 8/17/09
What’s New?
• Modern, USC-based interface
• New course home page
• Improved course management workflow:
- Edit Mode
- Web 2.0
• “Action Links” –
look here first!
• Folder markings – hidden + no content
• The Control Panel is always visible:
work in the CP, not in the folders above
What’s New?
New layout in content areas folders:
TRIP UP:
The button
that makes
the course
menu
disappear
What’s New?
• New collaborative tools:
- Blog
- Journal
- Self & Peer Assessment
•Automatic update notification – changes emailed nightly
courses tab > notifications dashboard
• The new “Grade Center”
Suggested handout:
“Significant Changes, Fixes, and Improvements in Blackboard 9”
Suggested movie:
“What's new and what's different in Blackboard 9”
Grade Center
More about the Grade Center:
a. Inputting grades
b. Column Organization
manage > column organization
c.
How to show and not show certain parts of the grade book
hide columns
deactivate “My Grades”
d.TRIP UP: Fixed column widths
Shorten it: click column’s action link > edit column information
Suggested handouts:
Several from the “Posting Student Grades to Blackboard” section
Suggested movies:
1. “Using the Grade Center”
Grade Center
Collecting, reviewing, and returning assignments:
a. Digital Drop Box Assignment Tool
The drop box is now the assignment tool
You can:
1) batch download papers
2) allow multiple attempts
3) review assignments offline & return them into Grade Center:
grade center >>>view grade details > open attempt
Suggested handouts:
1. “Using the Digital Drop Box”
2. “Creating Assignments”
3. “Entering Students’ Grades and Returning Students’ Graded Assignments”
Other Items
Course set-up:
a. Importing information from old class areas
from the course to move: course copy > destination course ID
copy everything! then delete items
b. Adding names of instructors
users & groups > users >
1. see roster: %
2. enroll users > browse
Suggested handout:
“Copying Course Content from One Course to Another”
Q&A
Do you have any comments or questions?
Contact
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