Workshop for online instructors January 8, 2011 (Snowstorm in the area)

1. Working with Master Courses
Jinsong Zhang
January 6, 2011

2. MASTER: What and why
• What is a master course?
– Course template for everyone
– Quality control
– Extra updating work
– First cycle by August
• Why master?
– Difficult to maintain and update
– Inconsistence across different sessions
– CMS upgrade

3. About your course website
• Process of creating a course shell
– Empty shell generation
– Contents from MASTER copies
– Blackboard system bugs and broken links
• Detecting & Fixing broken links
– Control Panel  Content Collection 
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– Files in Content Collection

4. Take care of your course
• Unimplemented features
– Creating your own test student
– Mediasite options [login]
– Grade book smart view
• Evaluation Tools
– Evaluation  Performance Dashboard
– Evaluation  Course Reports
• Customizing your course
– Home page
– Tools area

5. Questions