Introduction to Blackboard Rabie A. Ramadan Session 2

Session 2 - Agenda Introducing Blackboard Learn Login and Logout System Settings Personal Information Modifications Privacy Settings Exploring Courses Page Content Page 2

Session Main Purpose Get to know the System 3

Login Page To log into the Blackboard Learn for Hail University uoh.blackboard.com 4

Login Page Using the University main website 5

Activity 1 Open the Blackboard Main Page uoh.blackboard.com Do not login !!! 6

Login Page 7

Activity 2 Login into the system Write your Username and Password and Click on Describe what you see in front of you? 8

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Logout You can logout from the Blackboard using the most left Icon on the webpage. 10

Back to the main page 11

Main Page Tools Announcements: Those are system or administrator announcements. Calendar Good one 12

Main Page Tools Tasks See the current tasks created by you or assigned to you 13

Main Page Tools Task manipulation Add my own Task 14

Activity Create a task using your task menu ? 15

Back to the main page 16

Main Page Tools My Grades Accessing all courses Grades either you teach or you take Send Instructors can send to all or selected individual Users, Students, Groups, Teaching Assistants, Instructors or Observers. From a Blackboard Learn course, cannot be sent to anyone who is not a member of the course. 17

Activity 4: Instructor Send- Illustration Do you allow your student to send to all other students ? Personal Information Menu 18

Main Page Tools User Directory To look for somebody on the Blackboard system. Only users who choose to be listed in the user directory will appear in user search 19

Main Page Tools Address Book This is your address book that contains your contacts The system allows you to add contacts to your address book 20

Activity 5 Add my information to your address book 21

Activity 6 Add to your Personal Calendar that we have the next class on Monday from 11:30 to 2 pm 22

Activity 7 From the tools menu on Bb training2 course, send me an with: Subject : Bb training course Contents: session 2 activity 7 No attachment 23

Activity 8 In Bb training2 course, add a personal task entitled “ bring the course materials” on the coming Monday ? Your Conclusion, Please ? 24

Activity 8 Modify the status of the Bb training2 task “Bring one of your courses Materials on Monday” to “In Progress” ?Bring one of your courses Materials on Monday 25

Back to the main page 26

Main Page Tools Personal Information Edit Personal Information Personal Information is your contact information, name, address, phone number, and so forth. Use Privacy Options to set who can see your Personal Information. Personalize My Settings Upload a personal avatar and set which links appear on your My Settings navigation menu. 27

Main Page Tools Personal Information Change Personal Settings You can control Help, text, and language options. Set Privacy Options Select which fields of your personal information can be seen by others. 28

Question Do you remember from where we changed the language of the system ? 29

Activity 9 Edit your Personal Information ? 30

Activity 10 Upload an avatar for your personal page? Change My Settings Menu Contents ? 31

Activity 11 From inside the Blackboard change the language Pack ? Can we change it for the whole system? Can you hide/show the help (instructions) ? 32

Activity 12 Visit your privacy option and let me know what you will be able to change. 33

Back to the main page 34

Main Page Tools Goals To compare your course with similar courses in the Blackboard. Schools can demonstrate that their programs and curricula are effective by aligning course content and activities with goals in Blackboard Learn. 35

Main Page On Demand Help 36

Home Page Module Arrangement Drag and Drop Items 37

Home Page Module Arrangement Keyboard accessible reordering module 38

Activity 13 Adjust your Main window modules as you like 39

Personalize Your Page 40

Activity 14 Change your page theme? 41

Add Module 42 Modules are items that include content, links, or tools that can be added to personalize a page. Select a module More link or the Show/Hide toggle to preview that module. Select modules to appear on the page: Hail University

Add Module 43 Preview Before you Add.

Notification Dashboard All you want Notifications 44

Courses 45

My Course Options 46 Edit Mode Theme Change Student View

Activity 14 In one of your courses : Change the theme Preview the student course look 47

Course Toolbar Used to rearrange the items in the toolbar 48

This icon is used to refresh the content of the course page. 49

Course Toolbar Open the toolbar in a separate page 50

Adding New Items to Toolbar 51

Manipulating a toolbar item 52

Activity 15 Reorder the items in the course toolbar ? 53

Activity 16 Step 1: Hide one of the items in the toolbar Step 2 : Record your observations. Step 3: Preview students' page Step 4: Record your observations. 54

Get into Business Courses and Exams 55

Session 3 - Agenda Course Handling 56

Courses Menu 57

Select One of Your Courses 58

Items in the Course Page 59

Main Menu Difference Between “Information” and “Contents” 60 Information Supposed to be informative data Contents supposed to be the course contents The same tools Apply

Contents Menu 61

Build Content 62

Assessments 63

Tools 64

Partner Contents 65

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Create an Item 67 A content item is any type of file, text, image, or link that appears to users in a Content Area, Learning Module, Lesson Plan, or content folder

Create an Item 68 Item gives you the chance to describe it. The description appears to the students

Create an Item 69 Allows you to Insert an Image/table. You can customize the Image as well

Create an Item 70

Activity 1 Create an item into one of your courses. Put an image as a description to the item. Allow students to see it after specific date and set a deadline for the item. 71

Create File 72 Use the File content type to add a file that can be selected and viewed as a page within the course or as a separate piece of content in a separate browser window.

Create File 73 Upload file Open it in new window Allow user to view the item Track number of users Dates

Create Audio 74 Audio files have one of the following extensions:.aiff,.mp3,.midi,.mp,.wav, or.wma.

Create Image 75 image file types:.gif,.jif,.jpg,.jpeg,.png,.tiff, and.wmf.

Create Image 76

Create Video File 77 extensions:.avi,.mpg,. JPG and MPEG,.mov,.moo,.qt,.swa,.swf, asf and.wmv

Activity 2 Create the following files in your course: Audio Video Image Power Point 78

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