Transcript Things to know before developing a Blackboard course

Blackboard Basics, or
Things to know before
developing a Blackboard course
Thomas Birk, Ph.D.
LEIS/ITS
College of Dentistry
Objectives: Part One
Participants will be able to:
• Recognize the steps in having a Blackboard course
created
• Login to Blackboard at UNMC
• Develop a plan for creating the structure as well as
the “look and feel” of their Blackboard courses
• Take existing learning materials (primarily text)
and convert them for use in Blackboard courses
• Enroll and Remove students from your course
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Objectives: Part Two
Participants will be able to:
• Make PowerPoint presentation available to your
learners (three ways: PPT, HTML, PDF)
• Create tests and surveys
• Successfully navigate the Gradebook
• Insert multimedia into Blackboard
• Strategy for end-of-the-semester course
management
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Creating Blackboard Courses
• Contact LEIS personnel and request a
course in Blackboard be created
• Provide the following information:
– Name of course
– Course number
– Instructor(s)
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Handout
Once the course is created:
• Log in to Blackboard
• Go to My Courses and find the newly
created course
• Click on the course and you will be taken to
the Announcements page of your course
http://my.unmc.edu/
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Intranet: http://info.unmc.edu
http://my.unmc.edu
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Objectives
Participants will be able to:
• Recognize the steps in having a Blackboard
course created
• Login to Blackboard at UNMC
• Develop a plan for creating the structure as well as
the “look and feel” of their Blackboard courses
• Take existing learning materials (primarily text)
and convert them for use in Blackboard courses
• Enroll and Remove students from your course
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Initial Planning Questions
• What is the purpose of using online learning
in your course(s)?
– Repository?
– Supplement class instruction?
– Distance learning?
• What is the structure of the course?
• What is the structure of the content?
• What are the needs of the content?
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Planning & Blackboard
• Blackboard is essentially a shell for your
learning content
• How do you want to “package” the content?
– Folders
– Items
– Learning Units
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Planning & Blackboard
• What types of content?
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Text materials
Photographs
Images, graphs
Videos
Animations
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Features available…
• Content
• Tools
– Text
– Multimedia
– Hypertext
– Testing
– Surveys
– Create small groups
• Management
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Available/Unavailable
Enroll users
Assign roles
Un-enroll users
Archive information
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Objectives
Participants will be able to:
• Recognize the steps in having a Blackboard course
created
• Login to Blackboard at UNMC
• Develop a plan for creating the structure as
well as the “look and feel” of their Blackboard
courses
• Take existing learning materials (primarily text)
and convert them for use in Blackboard courses
• Enroll and Remove students from your course
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Today…
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We will focus on text content.
Five ways to insert text into Blackboard:
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Type/Copy & paste
Attach
Convert to HTML
Convert to PDF
Direct link to web resource
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Handout
Today…
• We will also enroll and remove students
from your Blackboard course.
Handout
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Hands-On
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Objectives
Participants will be able to:
• Recognize the steps in having a Blackboard course
created
• Login to Blackboard at UNMC
• Develop a plan for creating the structure as well as
the “look and feel” of their Blackboard courses
• Take existing learning materials (primarily
text) and convert them for use in Blackboard
courses
• Enroll and Remove students from your course
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Blackboard Basics
Part Deux
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Objectives: Part Two
Participants will be able to:
• Make PowerPoint presentation available to your
learners (three ways: PPT, HTML, PDF)
• Create tests and surveys
• Successfully navigate the Gradebook
• Insert multimedia into Blackboard
• Strategy for end-of-the-semester course
management
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PowerPoint and Blackboard
Three ways to insert .ppt files into Bb:
1. Attach
2. PDF
3. HTML
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Hands-On
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End-of-term
• We do not remove any courses from
Blackboard unless:
– There is no activity
– We are told to do so by the instructor(s)
• Retool and relaunch
• Regularly save your grades, especially at
end-of-term
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Contact Information:
• Tom Birk
– 559-2105
– [email protected]
• Melissa Diers
– 559-4688
– [email protected]
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