Using Blackboard: Getting Started Adam Warren [email protected] 02380 594486 Session overview  what is e-learning?  the user interface  configuring & structuring your course  creating content & uploading documents  creating announcements  sending emails  making your course available  sources of advice and support This from 100 years ago… Image from Paleofuture blog at http://www.paleofuture.com This from 50 years ago… Image from Paleofuture blog at http://www.paleofuture.com The Iceberg model face-to-face teaching assessed tasks directed learning preparation & reflection mastery Roger Ottewill (CLT) On the Horizon 10,1 2002 independent learning Supporting independent learning administrative information: • handbook • timetable • reading list • assessment lecture support: • handouts • presentations • worksheets • additional reading • selected web links communication: • announcements • email to students • discussion forums • FAQ • course blog online learning activities: instructions and task sequence formative tests and online submission multimedia resource collections structured discussions, blogs and wikis The life-cycle of an online course 1. discuss and agree aims 2. develop activities and resources 3. make course available 4. use to support learning and teaching 5. evaluate feedback from students 6. rollover course for following year 7. update activities and resources Units and Blackboard courses  University ‘module’ = Blackboard ‘course’ – automatically created for all modules – based on data in Banner  Introduction to Astronomy and Space Science  GAINS: PHYS1005 CRN: 12232 – new course created each year  main tutor = Blackboard instructor  automatic enrollment of registered students Banner courses and arbitrary courses Banner Course Instructors Students Arbitrary All courses are created automatically e.g. MANG1001, SPRT2002 Courses are created upon request Programmes of study are not created, only course modules. Can be for any purpose, e.g. year group, project Any member of staff listed by their school as teaching a course in Banner will automatically be made an instructor on the equivalent Blackboard course. The member of staff who requests the course is set as the instructor They may add colleagues as instructors They may add colleagues as instructors Students listed in Banner as enrolled on a course unit are automatically enrolled on the equivalent Blackboard course. Students must self-enrol or be added manually by an instructor Can also be added manually by an instructor or self-enrol (if allowed) Course rollover 03-04-Unit name-12345 04-05-Unit name-12345 content settings discussion forums + messages students students Information and advice  iSolutions – training and technical support – http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/ computing/elearn/blackboard/staffindex.html  Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit – educational advice, support and training – www.soton.ac.uk/lateu