A PowerPoint for a session on using Blackboard for Careers at UoR

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PREPARATION
1. Please log in to your computer
2. Log in to Blackboard, using the Chrome browser
3. Make sure you’re on the Enrolments page. You should have access to the
following:
COURSES ORGANISATIONS
Your own Practice Course Careers for Law Students
Blackboard for Careers Staff Academic Integrity Toolkit
Film Studies Demo course Study Advice
4. Plug in the memory stick provided for use in the session – not for keeps, sorry!
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BLACKBOARD FOR CAREERS
Technology Enhanced Learning
CQSD
17/05/2016

4. TEL STAFF (CQSD)
Vicki Holmes
Head of TEL
v.holmes@reading.ac.uk
Adam Bailey
Senior TEL Advisor
a.r.g.bailey@reading.ac.uk
Lauren McCann
TEL Advisor
l.j.mccann@reading.ac.uk
Shirin Irvine
TEL Advisor
s.irvine@reading.ac.uk
Maria Papaefthimiou
Senior TEL Advisor
m.c.papaefthimiou@reading.ac.uk
Andy Turner
TEL Applications Manager
a.r.turner@reading.ac.uk
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5. OBJECTIVES
1. To leave the session with the knowledge
and confidence to have a go at setting up
an effective and engaging
course/organisation on Blackboard
2. To know how and where to access support
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6. SESSION OVERVIEW
• Blackboard and Careers: Where are we now?
• What are the features of a ‘good’ course/organisation on Blackboard?
• How are others using Blackboard to support students?
• How to customise a course/organisation menu
• How to add & present engaging content
• How to add tools/activities (discussions boards, blogs, journals)
• How to add assessments (tests & surveys)
• Q & A – ask me anything!
• Fun Quiz (prizes!)
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COURSES & ORGANISATIONS
• COURSES:
• Your very own new Practice Course
• Blackboard for Careers Staff course
• Film Studies Demo course (exemplar)
• ORGANISATIONS:
• Careers for Law Students
• Academic Integrity Toolkit
• Study Advice
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8. WHAT IS BLACKBOARD?
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• Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)
• Web-based
• Accessible anytime, anywhere (via an internet connection & on mobile
devices)
It provides a practical way to:
• Deliver and organise teaching content and activities;
• Offers opportunities for interaction, communication and collaboration;
• Provide links to essential resources
• Track, monitor and assess student progress.
• It supports different teaching methods and modes of delivery: face-
to-face teaching, blended learning and distance provision.
• Other VLE examples: Moodle, Canvas.

9. WHERE IS CAREERS RE:
BLACKBOARD?
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Website: www.reading.ac.uk/careers
Blog: http://blogs.reading.ac.uk/careers/
Blackboard – Organisations:
• Agriculture, Policy and Development Careers & Placement
• BioSci Industrial Placements and Career Opportunities
• Blackboard for the Careers, Placement and Experience Centre (Admin)
• Careers Advice for Finalists (Food?)
• Careers Development (Chemistry)
• Careers and Employability Board
• Careers for Law Students
• Careers in Languages
• FT MBA Careers
• GIIDAE Careers Information
• Henley Careers
• Henley Careers Support Working Group
• ICMA Careers REP Careers Hub
• Organisations on other systems: RD_CASADMIN –

10. HOW DO OTHERS USE
BLACKBOARD?
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Examples:
• Study Advice (Organisation)
• Academic Integrity Toolkit (Organisation)
• Careers for Law Students
In your groups of 3/4, spend 5 minutes looking at
your allocated Organisation.
• What’s good?
• Are there any features you like?
• What’s not so good / could be improved?

11. A ‘GOOD’ BLACKBOARD COURSE?
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Have a look at the Film Studies Demo course
• What do you think?
• Anything you like?
• Anything you don’t like?

12. WHAT DO YOU THINK MAKES
A ‘GOOD’ BLACKBOARD COURSE?
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13. CREATING AN EDUCATIONAL
EXPERIENCE
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Garrison, Anderson and Archer’s Community of Inquiry Model (2000), https://coi.athabascau.ca/coi-model/

14. A BLACKBOARD COURSE /
ORGANISATION –
LET’S TAKE A LOOK!
Find your Practice Course:
Enrolments > Courses:
(Your Name) Practice Course
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15. Customising your course:
Add a BANNER to your course
Control Panel > Customisation > Teaching Style
(Use the banner image from your USB stick in the
BB1 folder)
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16. COMMUNICATIONS
Post an Announcement on your practice
course
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17. COURSE MANAGEMENT ACTIVITY
• Enrol a partner as a student on your
Practice Course
(You will need their username)
Control Panel > Users & Groups > Users >
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18. COURSE STRUCTURE: MENU
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Rationale for suggested menu:
• Minimum’/suggested standard &
ripe for customisation to needs
• Consistency across courses
• Ease of navigation for students
• Ties in with e-assessment policies

19. Customising the Menu
Make the MENU in your Practice Course more
relevant to Careers:
1. Rename a couple of items
2. Add a new menu (content) item called Careers
3. Reorder a couple of items
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20. CONTENT BUILDING ACTIVITIES
In your Blackboard Practice Course, in the new
Careers content area:
1. Add a Content Folder (call it Careers Events?)
2. Add an Item (some text – attach the PowerPoint from
your USB stick in BB1 folder if you wish)
3. Add a Web Link (http://www.reading.ac.uk)
4. Re-order the materials
5. Move the Item in to the Content Folder
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21. Adding more visual content
In your new Content Folder (Careers Events):
1. Add an image (from your USB stick)
2. Make it a hyperlink to a webpage, e.g. University of
Reading (www.reading.ac.uk/careers)
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22. Adding engaging content
In the Careers Events folder, add:
1. A mash-up (e.g from YouTube)
2. External content (use the embed code from a
website to add this content, e.g. embed code from
You Tube)
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23. Using tools & adding activities
In your Practice Course:
Set up either a:
1. Blog
2. Journal
3. Discussion Board
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24. 1. Go in to your partner’s Practice Course on which
you’re a student
2. Post a contribution in your partner’s Discussion
Board / Blog / Journal
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25. STUDENT PREVIEW
• Can I see what the students see?
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26. SUPPORT AVAILABLE
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Support for Staff
tab
on Blackboard
TEL blog
Blackboard Help site
TEL courses
Blackboard Surgeries
IT Service Desk
(it@reading.ac.uk)
IT will:
• help you with
technical queries
• forward your TEL
queries to us
TEL guides
Staff
Development
Get in touch

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KAHOOT!

28. TEL TWITTER
@unirdg_TEL
TEL BLOG
https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/tel
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