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

2. How do I get started in Bb?
Need a UWin ID and password (ITS –
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)

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. What cool things can Blackboard do?
Source: License free to use and share –

7. Tests, Surveys and Pools Centre
17 different types of questions

8. 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)

9. Student Preview

10. Rubrics
Assignments with optional customizable grading rubrics

11. 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

12. Grade Center

13. 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

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

16. Inline Grading on Assignments

17. 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

18. 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)

19. SafeAssign Originality Report

20. Import to Grade Centre
Import Scantron Results directly into course

21. 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

23. 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

24. Mobile
Bb Student
Bb Instructor

25. 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.

26. 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

27. Questions?