Getting Started with Blackboard
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This document provides an overview of Blackboard and how it is used at the university. Blackboard is a virtual learning environment (VLE) that supports online course delivery and the student experience. It allows for sharing information and resources, communication, hosting learning activities, and submitting and grading assignments. The session aims to give participants an understanding of Blackboard, familiarize them with its tools, and teach them how to post announcements, upload content, and add users.
Getting Started with Blackboard
- 1. GETTING STARTED WITH BLACKBOARD
- 2. Aims of this session By the end of this session participants will: • Have an overall understanding of how Blackboard is used within the university and its relationship to other systems • Be familiar with a range of Blackboard tools • Be able to • Post an announcement • Upload content • Add users
- 3. What is Blackboard • A Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) • A web-based platform that supports the delivery of all programmes of study in the University, and the wider student experience • Provides spaces for: • Sharing information and learning resources • Communicating with students • Hosting learning activities • Submitting assignments and receiving grades and feedback
- 4. Dominant provider in UK HE Main VLE in use in UK HEIs • Blackboard 46 • Moodle 37 • Other in-house 4 • Desire2Learn 2 • Others 3
- 5. Systems Integration QLS Students Active Directory HR Database Computer accounts and passwords Student enrolments Creation of module and programme sites Staff enrolments Staff Library (Talis-aspire) Reading Lists
- 6. What Sites are Created? • Module Sites • Programme Sites • Programme Sites by level • Subject Sites • School Sites All sites are created as ‘unavailable’. Students only see sites that staff choose to make available
- 7. What are sites used for? • Communication • Announcements • Email • Discussions • Learning Materials • Lecture notes and handouts • External links – video-based resources • Assignment submission • Electronic submission / grading / feedback • Interactive Tools • Blogs / Wikis / On-line tests and surveys
- 8. Activity • Login to Blackboard as: • Username: staffdev01 – staffdev06 • Password: linc0ln • Access the site “Research Skills for Geographers” • Follow the instructions on the home page • As you become familiar with the environment, feel free to experiment with additional tools and features