Using Blackboard: Getting Started Adam Warren

Using Blackboard:
Getting Started
Adam Warren
a.j.warren@soton.ac.uk
02380 594486
Session overview
 what is e-learning?
 the user interface
 configuring & structuring your course
 creating content & uploading documents
 creating announcements
 sending emails
 making your course available
 sources of advice and support
This from 100 years ago…
Image from Paleofuture blog at http://www.paleofuture.com
This from 50 years ago…
Image from Paleofuture blog at http://www.paleofuture.com
The Iceberg model
face-to-face teaching
assessed tasks
directed learning
preparation
& reflection
mastery
Roger Ottewill (CLT) On the Horizon 10,1 2002
independent learning
Supporting independent learning
administrative
information:
• handbook
• timetable
• reading list
• assessment
lecture support:
• handouts
• presentations
• worksheets
• additional reading
• selected web links
communication:
• announcements
• email to students
• discussion forums
• FAQ
• course blog
online learning activities:
instructions
and task
sequence
formative
tests and
online
submission
multimedia
resource
collections
structured
discussions,
blogs and
wikis
The life-cycle of an online course
1. discuss and agree aims
2. develop activities and resources
3. make course available
4. use to support learning and teaching
5. evaluate feedback from students
6. rollover course for following year
7. update activities and resources
Units and Blackboard courses
 University ‘module’ = Blackboard ‘course’
– automatically created for all modules
– based on data in Banner
 Introduction to Astronomy and Space Science
 GAINS: PHYS1005 CRN: 12232
– new course created each year
 main tutor = Blackboard instructor
 automatic enrollment of registered
students
Banner courses and arbitrary courses
Banner
Course
Instructors
Students
Arbitrary
All courses are created automatically
e.g. MANG1001, SPRT2002
Courses are created upon
request
Programmes of study are not created, only
course modules.
Can be for any purpose, e.g.
year group, project
Any member of staff listed by their school as
teaching a course in Banner will automatically
be made an instructor on the equivalent
Blackboard course.
The member of staff who
requests the course is set as
the instructor
They may add colleagues as instructors
They may add colleagues as
instructors
Students listed in Banner as enrolled on a
course unit are automatically enrolled on the
equivalent Blackboard course.
Students must self-enrol or
be added manually by an
instructor
Can also be added manually by an instructor
or self-enrol (if allowed)
Course rollover
03-04-Unit name-12345
04-05-Unit name-12345
content
settings
discussion forums
+ messages
students
students
Information and advice
 iSolutions
– training and technical support
– http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/
computing/elearn/blackboard/staffindex.html
 Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
– educational advice, support and training
– www.soton.ac.uk/lateu