University of Palestine
Faculty of Information Technology
ITLS3201 Principles & Practices of E-learning
Blackboard Learning System
Supervisor :
Dr. Anwar Mousa.
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Prepared By :
Mohammed Shahwan.
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Blackboard Learning System
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What is Blackboard?
Blackboard Functionality List.
Getting Started with Blackboard .
Assessment Tools.
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What is Blackboard?
• The Blackboard Learning System is a virtual learning environment
developed by Blackboard Inc.
• History
In 1997, two education consultants – Matthew Pittinsky and
Michael Chasen – formed Blackboard LLC and were contracted to
help lead the formation of the Educause IMS standards group for
online education technology. At the same time, a Course Info LLC at
Cornell University was developing a software product that would
power online education and be scalable for wider institutional
application. Recognizing the high demand for a sophisticated, easyto-use, and affordable online education software platform, the two
groups merged to form Blackboard Inc., which then developed the
Blackboard Learning System.
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What is Blackboard?
• Overview
The Blackboard Learning System is a Web-based server software
platform. Features include course management, a customizable
open architecture, and a scalable design that allows for integration
with student information systems and authentication protocols. It
may be installed on local servers or hosted by Blackboard ASP
Solutions. Its main purposes are to add online elements to courses
traditionally delivered face-to-face and to develop completely
online courses with few or no face-to-face meetings.
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What is Blackboard?
• Blackboard is a web-based system that complements and builds
upon traditional learning methods. By using the Blackboard system
you can view course materials and learning resources, including
multimedia, for any units that you are taking that have a Blackboard
module. The software also provides tools for communicating and
collaborating with your lecturer or other students about the course
using discussions, chat or email.
• This will allow you to participate in a number of interactive tasks
which you can do at a time and place of your convenience,
providing a degree of flexibility to your studying.
You can complete, and electronically submit, coursework in Blackboard as
well as monitoring your progress using quizzes and assignments that
teaching staff have set for you. It is also possible to check your grades for
Blackboard activities online.
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Blackboard Functionality List
• Announcements
Use announcements to post important and timely information for your
students. If you are using the default settings your students will see the
announcements area first when logging into your class.
• Assessments
Have students take online quizzes and provide them with immediate
feedback. A total of 18 different types of multiple choice, fill in the blank,
matching, true/false, ordering, and essay/short answer questions are
available.
Essay/short answer assessments need to be graded by the instructor.
Survey student needs and/or have them take course evaluations online
using the built in survey tool. Use the assessments feature for online
homework as well!
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Blackboard Functionality List
• Digital Drop Box
Allow your students to submit their assignments to you without using
email attachments. Faculty can grade and return assignment through the
digital drop box.
• Discussion Board
Use this asynchronous communication method to have “conversations”
outside of class. Use the discussion board forum to continue a
conversation started in class, to discuss topics from the readings, or to
have students share projects/assignments.
• External Links
Provide your students with an electronic list of resources that will
augment their classroom activities. These links can be to recommended
websites, library databases, electronic journals, images, or electronic
books.
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Blackboard Functionality List
• Grade Center
Keep track of student grades on all assignments using the Grade Center.
Students have the ability to check their own grades and to see where they
fall in the class average (they see only their scores). Blackboard
assessment (Quizzes and surveys) are automatically recorded in the Grade
Center. Faculty have the ability to weight grades and to export grades to
Excel at the end of the quarter.
• Groups
Enable collaborative work in your class using the groups function. Group
members have access to their own discussion board, file exchange (drop
box), virtual classroom (chat), and email.
• Send Email
Use the send email function from the Control Panel to easily email a single
student or the entire class. Students will need to have updated email
information in Campus Connect in order for this feature to work properly.
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Blackboard Functionality List
• Staff Information
Use this to provide your contact information, office hours, and personal
website if you have not put this information into your syllabus.
• Syllabus
Make your syllabus available online.
• Wimba
Use Wimba to establish real time synchronous audio and visual
communication with distance learning students during class sessions.
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Getting Started with Blackboard
• See the PDF file.
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Assessment Tools
• The Test Manager is used to create, modify, and remove tests. Blackboard
tests permit the instructor to assign point values to each question on
exams or quizzes. Student answers are submitted for grading, and the
results are recorded in the Gradebook.
• The Survey Manager is used to create, add, preview, modify, and remove
surveys. Surveys provide instructors with an assessment tool that is useful
for polling purposes, evaluations, and random checks of knowledge.
• The Pool Manager allows instructors to store questions for repeated use.
Instructors can create new questions to include in pools and add questions
that have been created in other tests or pools. Pools are course-specific
although pools from other courses can be imported through the pool
Manager.
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Assessment Tools
• How to create/modify a test?
Click Test Manager in the Assessments area on the Instructor
Control Panel to get started.
Follow the steps below to create a test. To modify a test, click
Modify next to the test that needs to be modified.
• Step 1: Select Add Test on the Test Manager page.
• Step 2: Enter a name, description, instructions and click Submit.
• Step 3: Select a question type on the Test Canvas and click Go.
• Step 4: Create one of the following questions:
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Assessment Tools
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Calculated Formula*
Calculated Numeric*
Either/Or*
Essay
File Response*
Fill in Multiple Blanks*
Fill in the Blank
Hot Spot*
Jumbled Sentence*
Matching
Multiple Answer
Multiple Choice
Opinion Scale/Likert*
Ordering
Quiz Bowl*
Shot Answer
True/False
Random Block*
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• Step 5: Enter the Point Value for the question.
• Step 6: Enter answers to choose from and select the correct
answer.
• Step 7: Enter a response that the student will see if the answer is
correct.
• Step 8: Enter a response that the student will see if the answer is
incorrect and click Submit.
• Step 9: Repeat Steps 4-8 until finished adding questions.
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• How to make a link to the test
• Step 1: Go to the Control Panel. Then, open the content area in
which the Test will appear and click the Test icon.
• Step 2: Select the Test to add to this content area and click Submit .
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• Modifying the test options and making it available
- Setting up the Properties, Availability, Feedback, and Presentation
options for the Test.
• How to access the Modify Test options
- Via “Add Test” submission button, or
- By “Modify” button after adding a link to the test
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