@ONE Introduction to Teaching With Blackboard 9.1 Course

Certification of Completion

Final Grades

Resources for Each Week

Week 1:

• What is different about teaching online? 
• Are you ready to teach online? 
• Seven principles of good teaching practice 

Week 2:

• Converting Your Course to Online
  Links to various tips and guidelines on how to make this conversion

• Creating an Online Syllabus
  Suggestions on how to create an online syllabus
• Organizing Your Online Course Material
  Ideas on how to organize material online
• Creating Accessible Online Content
  Information on universal design and making online material accessible to users with disabilities
• Integrating Web Resources
  Examples of external web sites that can be integrated with your online course
• Copyright, Fair Use, and Intellectual Property Issues
  Material on how to navigate these topics
• What Does an Excellent Online Course Look Like?
  Viewable models of online courses

Week 3:

• Why Promote Participation and Interaction
  Benefits of student participation
• How to Promote Participation and Interaction
  Practical suggestions
• "Motivate and Engage Online Learners All Semester Long"
  This article appeared in Campus Technology and lists ten tips to keep students involved
• Classroom Management Tips
  Advice on how to manage students in the online classroom

From the Blackboard Learning Center

Blackboard Learn: On Demand Tutorials

The Blackboard YouTube channel offers videos for instructors and students on its various tools. This page has links to videos relevant to the material covered in this lesson:

·       Discussion Board Tour

The following videos were made with a prior version of Blackboard, so some of the interface elements differ (like the buttons on the content editor or how some options do not appear unless the mouse pointer hovers over them). However, the ways the tools work has not changed:

Discussion

o   Creating a Discussion Board Forum

o   Changing Discussion Board Forum Settings

o   Grading Discussion Forums

o   Grading Discussion Threads

Groups

o   Creating a Group

o   Creating Group Sets

Blogs and Journals

o   Creating a Journal

o   Creating and Editing Journal Entries

o   Commenting on a Journal Entry

o   Creating a Blog

o   Creating and Editing Blog Entries

o   Commenting on a Blog Entry

Wikis

o   Creating a Wiki

o   Adding Rich Content to a Wiki

o   Editing a Wiki Page

o   Linking Wiki Pages

o   Viewing a Wiki Page History

o   Grading a Wiki

Week 4

·        Question Types in Blackboard
From the University of Southampton

·        Uploading Questions
This is a direct link to the page in the online Blackboard manual describing how to create a file for bulk upload of questions to a Pool or Test. 

·        Working with the Grade Center
This is a direct link to the page in the online Blackboard manual describing how to work with the Grade Center, including the use of Grading Schemas and Grading Periods

·        Letter Grades and the Grade Center
This page is focused on how Grading Schemas can be used to input letter grades

·        Using Adaptive Release for Custom Quiz Timing
Video tutorial from CSU Channel Islands

·        Assessment of Students
From the Illinois Online Network

·        Quiz Makers
Additional links to web tools for assessment

·        Cheating and Plagiarism
Questions and links on academic integrity in distance education

Blackboard Learn: On Demand Tutorials

The Blackboard YouTube channel offers videos for instructors and students on its various tools. This page has links to videos relevant to the material covered in this lesson:

·        Creating a Test

·        Automatic Regrading

·        Creating Assignments

·        Using SafeAssignment

·        Creating Grade Center Columns

·        Deploying and Grading Group Assignments 

·        Creating a Rubric

·        Grading with Rubrics

Note: These videos were made with a prior version of Blackboard, so some of the interface elements differ (like the buttons on the content editor or how some options do not appear unless the mouse pointer hovers over them). However, the ways the tools work has not changed.

Blackboard's online help for instructors (linked from the Control Panel of all Blackboard courses) also has detailed explanations of how various tools work. The following relate to the content covered in this lesson:

·        Inline Grading for Assignments

·        Using Direct Submit
This allows instructors to submit electronic files to Blackboard's plagiarism-detection service collected outside of a SafeAssignment.