Blackboard 9.1 includes new features to foster student engagement and support educator efficiency. New social learning tools allow students to stay connected to their education 24/7 and collaborate more actively. Instructors gain new productivity tools to focus more on teaching and less on administration. Specific updates include a more intuitive interface, module pages for content, blogs/journals/wikis for collaboration, and improved grading options in the Grade Center.

1. Blackboard 9.1 Changes in the New Blackboard Willem van Valkenburg

2. Who am I? e-learning consultant for the Shared Service Centre ICT of Delft University of Technology Projects I’m working on: Blackboard (project leader) Social Software (weblogs, wikis, twitter) OpenCourseWare TU Delft Mobile Chairman of the Dutch Blackboard Usergroup (NLBBUG) Blog on www.e-learn.nl Twitter on twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg

3. Blackboard Learn 9.1 Fostering Student Engagement Release 9.1 features exciting new social learning and teaching tools that foster more logical, visually impactful, and active learn ing opportunities for students. You'll transform your closed-door classrooms into communities where students remain connected to their educational experience 24 hours a day . Supporting Educator Efficiency Our new instructional productivity tools give your faculty the freedom to focus on teaching and learning techniques. By continually improving the course workflow , you'll enable educators to spend less time on administrative details and more time on student success , achievement , and retention .

4. Blackboard Learn 9.1 Fostering Student Engagement Promote active collaboration and social learning Engage students with a new user interface Integrate visually engaging content Increase accessibility Supporting Educator Efficiency Manage content at the course level Grade in context with more options Create assessments in less time Provide intuitive online structure Monitor Activity and Progress

5. New interface Improved accesibility Embedded help Inline add, edit, remove, drag and drop

6. Contextual Editing Fewer clicks More intuitive

7. My Places List of frequently accessed courses and organizations Quick access to Personal Settings Upload an Avatar Change notification settings

8. Notifications Notify instructors of early warning system rules, submitted assignments and exams, etc Notify students of new content, discussion posts, due dates, returned grades, etc Delivered via modules Delivered via e-mail , individually or as a digest

9. Within a course Module page Weblogs and Journals Wikis Direct access to Control Panel

10. Module page

11. Control Panel

12. Blogs and Journals Blogs are intended for course, group or individual collaboration and commentary Journals are private individual or group reflections

13. Wikis (1) Available within courses and organisations For a complete course or only for a group Create a new Wiki Page Edit current page Comment to a page See your contributions Overview of wiki

14. Wiki (2)

15. Content toevoegen

16. Mashups Add external content Photo’s from Flickr.com Video’s from Youtube Presentations from Slideshare

17. Test, Surveys and Question Pools Question Finder All questions within courses can be searched Link to Questions Changes in the original questions are also changed in the linked questions Question Sets Batch Deletion and Point Updates Copy Test, Survey, and Pools

18. Grade Center Rubrics for Grading guidelines for grading an item Anonymous Grading Grade by Question Attempt

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20. Overview most important changes Within a course Module page Weblogs, Journals and Wikis Direct access to Control Panel Content Course Folder Mashups Lesson Plans Upload Multiple Files and Folders Recycle Bin Thumbnail view Grade Center Anonymous grading Grade by question attempt Tests Question Finder Link to Questions Questions Sets Batch Delete and Point Updates Copy Test, Surveys and Pools Portal More intuitive user interface My Places Notifications

21. ir. W.F. van Valkenburg www.e-learn.nl twitter.com/wfvanvalkenburg slideshare.net/wfvanvalkenburg