1. Proficient Level Training Workshop
Manage Your Course
Proficient Level Training Workshop

2. Objectives of This Workshop
Increase instructor presence
Analyze tools in Blackboard
Build engagement
Build community
Manage tasks associated with course preparation and course delivery

3. Your Instructor Role Professional Evaluator
Manager and Administrator of your course
Advisor
Researcher
Andragogical Methods

4. Personal Prep Work Before Course Begins
Add Faculty Contact Information
Add your avatar
Create a Welcome/Introductory Announcement
Build Content

5. Add Faculty Contact Information

6. Adding Your Avatar Recommended size 150 x 150 pixels
Acceptable file formats include GIF, PNG, and JPEG

7. Create Announcements in Blackboard
Sign your Announcements
Do not use your initials as your signature
If you use any acronyms, spell out

8. Announcements
Hyperlink address. Type in a signature with , then select the hyperlink tool.
Settings:
Link Path= mailto: your address(no spaces)
Target= Open in New Window

9. Post 1st Announcement

10. Create Welcome Video
Use Kaltura

11. Rename Your Course
Easily identify YOUR current course in the WilmU portal

12. More In Depth Course Preparation
Managerial:
Syllabus – Learner Centered
Check textbooks, share textbook information
Check Instructor Resources folder
Add dates to Weeks on course menu
Add Assignment Due Dates
Review Grade Center/Column Organization
Review Rubrics
Hybrid: Flip the Classroom

13. Copying and Pasting Content into Blackboard
Blackboard recommend browsers are Chrome and Firefox.
Copy text from source and paste in Blackboard using keyboard shortcut CTRL + V.

14. Instructor Resource Folder and Syllabus

15. Full Grade Center: Check Grade Columns Alignment and/or Center Weighting

16. Adding Dates to Course Menu
Use the Full Academic Calendar

17. Assignment Due Dates and Date Management
Manage Due Dates
Add Assignment Due Dates
Adjust Date

18. Review Roster and Room Location

19. Check Rubrics
Show Rubrics to Students With Rubric Scores

20. Course Tools – Link Checker

21. Open Course Hide items Show Links Announcement Course is open
Syllabus is ready

22. First Class Name Review Syllabus section Syllabus
University Grading System
Academic Integrity Policy
University Attendance Policy
Students with Special Needs
First Class
Name

23. Manage Your Course During the Term
Take Attendance
Communicate Weekly
Use LMS Blackboard Tools
Monitory Students & Assess learning using Blackboard Grade Center
Build Community
Summarize Class Discussions
Hold Office Hours
Posting Final Grades
Grade Changes

24. Take Attendance in the myWilmU Portal

25. Communicate with Students Throughout the Term
Announcements
Means of connecting s
Personalized communication
Early Alert – Faculty Resources/Log into Early Alert

26. Email –to Students from Blackboard
Use Tool\Send OR use option from Grade Center. When sending an to student from the Grade Center, opportunity to BCC any other user such as a department chair.

27. Blackboard Tools Discussion Board Journals Rubrics Wikis VoiceThread
SafeAssign
Tests
Collaborate Ultra

28. Kaltura
Faculty and students may request the URL for their Kaltura video.
Please request the URL by ing
Submit your Kaltura video title and your blackboard username

29. Grade Center Expand rows past 10
To view the entire spreadsheet with user names, Go to Full Grade Center
Select the button Edit Rows Displayed
Type in class size enrollment number or max value of 50 users. Click Go.

30. Grade Center – Manual Override
Manual Override – When entering zeros and then going back in to regrade scores, you may still see the zero in the cell.
If that is the case, you may need to View Grade Details for that student and Manually Override the score with the adjusted score.

31. Annotating and Feedback
Feedback to User Area & Grading Notes
Annotate Using Box

32. Grade Center – Finalizing Grades
Fill in score for ALL cells in the spreadsheet.
The hyphens are null values.
Use 2 Total columns – One column primary display is percent, other primary display is score
If using Weighted Total, set primary display as %
When no scores are entered, and when the calculated column has running totals set to Yes, then student’s grade is a higher calculation than earned.
Remember to enter scores in each and every cell in Full Grade Center and enter zeros for unsubmitted work.
One common mistakes is when faculty are totaling grades is to not change their - - to 0’s. 

33. Final Grade Entry
myWilmU portal Grade Entry –enter grades from the drop down menu
Once Saved and Rolled, changes must be made via Grade Change Form

34. Sense of Community Use Tools
Use Blackboard Survey tool
Student Polling tool
Padlet
VoiceThread
Connect with students using Collaborate Ultra, Groups
Provide feedback

35. Instructor & Student Engagement
Online Engagement
Weekly Announcements & Collaborate Rooms
Introductory and weekly videos
Timely feedback
Padlet
F2F or Hybrid Engagement
Weekly Announcements
Introductory and weekly videos
Timely feedback
Polling
Padlet
Group Games

36. Contact for Support edtech@wilmu.edu
Things to Consider
Be Prepared for a Cyber Day
Announcements are s
When using images and videos – beware of visibility
When adding a Kaltura video on the Announcement page, the mashup can’t be viewed in an announcement .
Place a note to students, “The Kaltura mashup must be viewed in Blackboard.”
Choose to focus on best practice
Take a look at WilmU’s Online Course Prep List
Contact for Support