Getting Started: Blackboard
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Introduces UoM's VLE- Blackboard. Briefly discusses tools, features and powerlinks that can be integrated to enhance your online courses
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Getting Started: Blackboard
- 1. Blackboard Workshop Session MBS elearning team http://intranet.mbs.ac.uk/elearning.aspx
- 3. A VLE is designed to support the management and function of most aspects of an online course . Blackboard allows educators to create and host courses on the Internet (blended learning) complimenting face to face teaching. Blackboard consists of an integrated set of production, communication, assessment and content management tools that allow instructors to design, present and facilitate online instruction Log in to Blackboard at https://blackboard.manchester.ac.uk/
- 6. How have you been using Bb? Sharing good practice!
- 10. Any Questions? Moving onto advanced tools
Editor's Notes
- Blackboard tools explained: Announcements: create and send text announcements to members enrolled in a course, that also appear as pop-up messages The Assessments tool allows you to create the following: Quizzes: (create the following question types: calculated questions, combination , fill-in-the-blank questions, jumbled sentence questions, matching , multiple choice , paragraph questions,short answer questions , true false questions) Surveys , Self tests Assignments. You can use the Assignments tool to view an inventory of homework and projects that are in the course. Students can work on projects individually or in a group. You can also provide feedback, grades and suggestions on how they can improve their work. Calendar allows you to view and create dated reminders about events and link to content. Chat allows you to provide a virtual real time space where students can gather online and chat (socializing, completing groupwork, discussing a topic, etc) The Discussions tool allows you to create topics relevant to the course where users can post and reply to messages. You can ask questions, generate discussion, and encourage students to share feedback and ideas. Instructors can assign grades for participation, just as they would in a classroom courses There are three types of discussion topics: Threaded: Messages are grouped visually in a hierarchy by topic. Class blog: Create a collaborative blog space by allowing participants to post a chronological series of entries on a particular topic. Participants can then add comments to any blog entry. Journal: Create a journal topic to give Students a place for their own writing. The journals can be kept private or shared with the class. Mail: You can send email to all students enrolled on your Blackboard course Media Library is a tool that organizes auxiliary course content, such as media files, images, videos or glossary definitions. Syllabus tool, make course information available to students (i.e. your contact information and office hours, course objectives, course outlines, lessons overview, etc) Web Links tool: used to compile a list of Internet addresses. These Internet addresses can then be added to folders and learning modules to reference web pages outside of your course. TalisList is an online system to create and manage collections of resources including reading lists, which directs users straight through to the University library catalogue and any online resources. Currently, staff can type in a list to be made available in Blackboard or link directly to their appropriate TalisList reading list.
- Tools based around the management of courses/students Group Manager . You can use Group Manager to place students into groups if you want them to work collaboratively. You can: create discussion topics for groups create chat or whiteboard rooms for groups create assignments that can be assigned to groups, allowing Students to work collaboratively. create assignments that Students all work on individually set selective release criteria based on membership within a group.
- - Video library server : watch and upload your own video clips…easier to distribute to students through the streaming server -- Live lecture theatres : all necessary equipment to professionally record a lecture which can then be edited and distributed online to students Using Personal Response Systems- interactive and reflective approaches TurningPoint technology is a unique lecturing and presentation tool! It integrates 100% with Powerpoint and it allows lecturers to communicate with their students interactively by asking them questions to which they can reply using a keypad handset. Turning Point can be very effectively used by our lecturers as it sits in their PowerPoint lecture slides and requires minimum IT skills, technical understanding and training, as the majority of lecturers’ are already familiar with PowerPoint and its tools. Turning Point collects responses in real time and creates detailed reports for analysis. It is an effective way to get students involved during the lecture, engage them in active learning, improve student participation, and provide students with formative feedback. Lecturers are also provided with feedback on students understanding and the added benefit of analysing student responses for class discussion. After a session, TurningPoint’s reporting tools enables lecturers to record, collect feedback, track, analyse and share responses according to groups or individuals responses. There are a variety of assessment (and non) questions included, such as multiple choice, T/F, Y/N, likert slides, ice breakers, questions that reveal opinions and insights, fastest responders, and interactive prompts such as countdown timer, answer now, correct answer indicators, turning a lecture into an engaging, competitive and motivating learning environment. Create offers an easy and effective way to convert already existing Word docs and/or the creation of new ones. One of the elearning teams main concerns and requirements is to promote to staff alternate ways of distributing information to their students beyond the basic delivery of content via documents for downloading and Create offers precisely that. (We do know that the majority of academics are using word docs as a way to distribute content). With the Wimba toolbar, integrated into Word, academics will find it fairly simple to deliver their content in a more engaging and visually appealing manner. The html pages that are created (serving as learning modules) can be as simple as text or delivered interactively by supporting the inclusion of audio, video, multimedia, hyperlinks and navigation schemes. An additional advantage is the inclusion of assessment practices which lets academics add interactive features (self tests, flashcards, quiz questions, etc) without the need for specialist design, which integrates into Bbd’s gradebook.
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