Highlights of Blackboard Learn Lorie Stolarchuk Learning Technologies Educational Consultant Tim Au-Yeung Online Learning Systems Administrator Centre for Teaching and Learning

How do I get started in Bb? Need a UWin ID and password (ITS – http://www.uwindsor.ca/uwinid) Login at uwindsor.ca/blackboard CTL Workshops (uwindsor.ca/bbworkshops) Online Self-paced Courses e.g. Introduction to Blackboard (self-paced) Sandbox Site (to practice in) Bb Café (organization site with notices)

How do I get course sites? Automatically, once you are listed in the SIS as the instructor of record, and your course is known to the SIS Course will be unavailable to students until you are ready to make it available

How do students get added my course site? Automatically! As long as you are listed as the Instructor of Record, and the course is known in the SIS

How do the students get access to my course site? Click in a Content Area such as Resources. Look to top right of site for red lock icon. Click to Make Available

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Tests, Surveys and Pools Centre 17 different types of questions

Tests, Surveys, Pools Cont’d Test Availability Exceptions Test Access Log (how much time student spent on questions, or spot cheaters who share exact same answers)

Student Preview

Rubrics Assignments with optional customizable grading rubrics

Grade Centre Integrated with multiple tools – Assignments, tests, discussions, journals, blogs, wikis Create columns for activities e.g. participation, projects Group work can be graded Smart Views – (individuals, groups, category, attributes e.g. low scores, comparisons) Needs Grading Page– filters out ungraded items

Grade Center

Retention Centre Displays which students are at risk in one or more of four categories: Missed Deadlines Grades Course Activity Course Access Can create customizable rules Send notifications and track private comments

Adaptive Release By Date By Grade Membership by Group Individuals By Review Status Customized Advanced Rules – Combinations of above

Inline Grading on Assignments

SafeAssign Plagiarism Checker Used to detect possible citation problems Helps students identify how to properly attribute sources rather than paraphrase Deterrent and an educational tool Embedded into the Assignments tool

SafeAssign Databases content submitted is compared against: Institutional document archives Global Reference Database (15 million papers volunteered) ProQuest ABI/Inform Database (1100 publications, 2.6 million articles) Internet (Yahoo BOSS search service)

SafeAssign Originality Report

Import to Grade Centre Import Scantron Results directly into course

Date Management Adjust all content and tool dates in course Drag and drop events Course initiation can have dates for the entire semester shifted by a number of days or an expected course start date

Auto-Groups Enrolment is automatically maintained from the SIS directly into your course site Auto-groups populates sections into your course site Customization upon request e.g. labs

Mobile Bb Student Bb Instructor

Achievements Course Completion: The certificate reward is required. An additional badge is optional. Milestone: The reward can only be a badge. Custom: Badges, certificates, or both are allowed.

Virtual Classroom Blackboard Collaborate Record sessions Synchronous communication (audio, video, text) Low (adaptive) bandwidth use Break out rooms Application sharing Whiteboard – presentations, annotations Works on Windows, Mac, Android, iOS Ultra version is HTML5 based and responsive, mobile first design

Questions?