Using Blackboard:Getting StartedAdam Warren

a.j.warren@soton.ac.uk02380 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

directed learning

independent learning

Roger Ottewill (CLT) On the Horizon 10,1 2002

assessed tasks

preparation& reflection

mastery

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:

formativetests and

online submission

multimediaresource

collections

instructionsand tasksequence

structureddiscussions,

blogs andwikis

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

Students must self-enrol or be added manually by an instructor

Students listed in Banner as enrolled on a course unit are automatically enrolled on the equivalent Blackboard course.

Can also be added manually by an instructor or self-enrol (if allowed)

Students

The member of staff who requests the course is set as the instructor

They may add colleagues as instructors

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.

They may add colleagues as instructors

Instructors

Courses are created upon request

Can be for any purpose, e.g. year group, project

All courses are created automaticallye.g. MANG1001, SPRT2002

Programmes of study are not created, only course modules.

Course

ArbitraryBanner

03-04-Unit name-12345 04-05-Unit name-12345

content

discussion forums

settings

Course rollover

content

discussion forums+ messages

students students

settings

Information and advice

iSolutions– training and technical support– http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/comput

ing/elearn/blackboard/staffindex.html

Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit– educational advice, support and training– www.soton.ac.uk/lateu