Blackboard 101

Fall 2012 Faculty In Service

~ Christine Seideman

Getting Started – What’s Required?

Course Banner

OUsing the E@T Banner Creator

O Follow this link:

http://bit.ly/BannerBb12FA BW101-001W Basket

WeavingInstructor: Dr. Ima Wesome

Faculty InformationO Email christineseideman@cwidaho.cc O Work Phone 208-562-3377 O Office Location Main Academic Building

TBDO Office Hours I’m here 8:30am-5pm and I’m

more than happy to work with your schedule.

O Notes If you have a problem, feel free to call. If it isn't mine to fix, maybe I can help get you to the right place. And don't worry about whether or not I am busy. :)

Syllabus/Course Schedule

O Use the CWI template emailed to you this summer – please let me know if you need me to send it to you! O Don’t copy/paste from Word.O Do consider using a display tool like

Box.com

O Make your course schedule is accurate for due dates and when exams will be held.O It’s okay to say ‘things may change’

Merging Classes?O If you have 2 or more sections of the

same class you can request that they be ‘merged’.

O Send a Help Desk Ticket in with the course and sections you’d like to be merged.

O Your merged course will appear usually with in 48 hours. Now you’ll only have to create 1 Blackboard shell!

Assignments/ContentO Click on your Assignment Button

Adding Assignments

Content Types

Assessment Features

Interactive Tools

10 Minute Play TimeO We’re going to build a content folder

named ‘Testing 1-2-3’O Inside the folder create an ‘pretend’

assignment of ‘What was the highlight of your summer?’

O Add a point valueO Assign a due date

O Create a Discussion Board activity where you ask your students if they have any fears/concerns about the course.

Quizzes/TestsO Where should I go?:

Selections Explained

Tests

Finding your Tests

Creating a New TestO Pros:

O You design your questions in a way that your students are mostly likely to understand.

O Lots of different styles of questionsO If you make it in Blackboard you’ve got a

really good chance it will work!

O Cons: O Can be time consuming O Can’t copy/paste from Microsoft WordO Can be difficult to create a large batch of

questions to pull from

Building a Test – Play Time

O Step 1 – name the test and provide directions

Building a Test – Play Time

O Adding Test Questions

O Create the following questions:

O 1 true/false O 1 multiple choiceO 1 multiple answerO 1 essayO 1 fill in the blank

Deploying Your TestO Go back in your Assignment sectionO Go into your Testing 1-2-3 folderO Select the drop down ‘Create

Assessment’ tabO Select your newly created test & click

SubmitO Then do your details/due dates/point

values etc. O Make it public (or set a delay for release)

Play Time

We will spend a few minutes deploying our ‘practice’ test in our

sample folder.

Grade Center Setting up Grade

Center

Setting up grade categories

Creating a weighted total

Setting categories for manually entered assignments

Day to Day Uses

Adding assignment columns

Sending email Entering student

scores Showing/Hiding

columns

What do those Grade Center Icons Mean Anyway?

!! Important Information !!

In your Grade Center you MUST add a 0 (zero) if students do not turn work in. The default image (--) does not ‘equal’ a 0 score.

The - - in the Grade Center nulls the grade which means:

Someone who has not turned in work can still pass your class.

Start entering those 0’s (zeros)!

Open ForumO Questions?

O Feedback Poll - http://bit.ly/CWITrainingSurvey