Academic Session

Who, what and how
An overview

Centre for Teaching and Learning Innovation (CTLI)
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Who are we?
We provide a variety of support service to the staffatUnitec. Some of the services we can help you with are:

Online course development support
How to Use Web 2 technologies (example Wiki, eportfolios, Mtechnology, Twitter, Second Life etc) in your teaching
Literacy and numeracy – help with incorporating them in your teaching resources
Workshops on teaching and learning
Support with Blackboard (learning management system) technical and academic support

Blackboard Services
What do we offer?
CTLI is responsible for:

maintenance
staff training/ and support
exploring new technologies for use with Blackboard/LMS
and research

Staff can request Bb/Web 2.0 workshops. The workshops can be tailored to departmental needs or are delivered in generic clusters beginner, intermediate and advance.
Phone and online support is also available, for any technical or user issues and for workshop request you can email or call:

What do we offer? Cont’d
For pedagogical use of technology in teaching and learning, you can request help from:

Or you can touch base with either Vickel Narayan or Yong Liu.

Blackboard tools
Bb tools a quick look
Instructor tool

Setting/removing enrolment rule
Adding/removing other instructors to a course
Check if a student is enrolled in the student management system (Peoplesoft)
Check class and class name from Peoplesoft
Check if a student has access to Bb

(Click here to show demo)
Synchronous and Asynchronous communication tools (for students and teachers)

Email
Announcements – (posting important course news)
Wikis – group tool (multi-user document authoring tool)
Blogs
e-Journals – reflective journals individual/collective (group)
podcasting tools

Blackboard tools a quick look cont’d
Quizzes and Surveys
Why use them?
For teachers

automated marking
saves time
instant feedback
an opportunity for the teacher to provoke thinking and promote curiosity

For students

directs student learning
helps student identify weaknesses

Some question types available in Blackboard
>> Multi-choice >> Short answer >> Long answer >> True/False >> Hotspot
>> Essay >> Matching >> Ordering >> Numerical questions which require calculations
>> Fill in the blacks

Other tools which could be used in conjunction with Assessment tools
Performance-monitoring tool
for teachers where they can check the progress of students
Early warning system
is a smart way for teachers to set criteria. If the criteria set is not met by students Bb sends a
list through to the teacher(s).There are three warnings you can set:

grade rule
due date rule
last assess date rule

Course statistics
See what your students have been doing and when. Handy tool for teachers to monitor student
activities.

Gradebook
A very flexible option available in Blackboard to store and manage student scores.
Blackboard activities for example quizzes, forums, assignments could all be automatically
added and managed in Bb gradebook.