Blackboard Learn Essentials – Part 2

Blackboard Learn

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You may find additional resources about Blackboard Learn or request a consultation at the

Teaching and Learning Technologies website at

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/tools/blackboard.

Group Work –Assessments and Assignments

Objective: This activity shows you how to add and customize assignments and assessments in Learn. Both features allow students to submit their work easily online.

Add an Assignment

the Course Content link in the course menu

Assessments, then Assignment.

your assignment (i.e. Reflection 1)

a sentence or two into the instructions text box

100 in the Points Possible text box

Submit

the Student Preview button to see how your assignment looks to a

student.

Student Preview by Exit Preview

Add an Assessment – Create Quiz

the Course Content link in the menu

Assessment, then click Test

Create to create a new assessment

Quiz 1 as the title for your assessment

Submit

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Add an Assessment – Add Questions Create Question and Multiple Choice

Question 1 as the Title

your own question in the Question Text box

down to the Answers section

an answer in the Answer 1 box

If this is the correct answer, the radio button under

Correct.

Repeat until you have the desired number of responses for your

question

If you don’t have 4 options for answers, click Remove

next to any blank option you want to eliminate (leaving an answer option blank will

result in a blank entry in the quiz).

Submit

Repeat step 2 if you would like to create more questions.

OK when finished. The OK button is light and hard to see. You’ll find it in the

lower right corner.

Add an Assessment – Place into Content Area

Ensure Quiz 1 is selected from your list, then Submit

to the Test Availability section.

For the option Make the Link Available the radio button

for Yes to make the quiz available to students

the check box next to Multiple Attempts, then

the radio button next to Number of Attempts

and “2”

Submit again on the test options screen

Modify Test Questions To add or remove test questions, the arrow icon next to the quiz and Edit

the Test.

NOTE: This is not recommended once students begin taking

your assessment.

Modify Test Options

To change test options, the arrow icon next to the quiz

and Edit the Test Options.

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Complete the Assignment and Assessment of Those in Your Row

Group Work

Complete the assignment and take the quizzes of others in your row by the

My Blackboard tab on the top of the screen and selecting their courses. For the

assignment, submit the Syllabus file you downloaded at the start of the session, or

create a new file in Microsoft Word.

Since multiple attempts have been enabled on the assessment, the quiz twice,

changing at least one answer the second time.

Make sure to return to the class in which you are an instructor to complete the

exercises

Stretch Your Skill (Optional) – Create Multiple Question Types in an Assessment.

Objective: This exercise reveals the array of different types of questions available when building a test/survey in Learn.

Create a New Assessment

Course Content in the menu.

Assessment, then Test

Create to create a new assessment

any name you’d like as the title for your assessment

Submit

Create Question and experiment with building different types of

questions.

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Inline Grading

Objective: This activity introduces you to the use of Inline Grading, which converts student

homework submissions to a format that can be viewed and graded in Blackboard, without having to

download student papers to your computer.

Using Inline Grading to Grade a Paper

the Grade Center from the Course Menu on the left-hand side

of the screen, and to the column for the assignment you

created.

In the column, an assignment submission. It will have a

needs grading icon . the options menu that appears to the

right of the icon, and on the attempt you wish to grade.

First, create a point annotation. the Point Annotation option:

on any part of the paper to create a

comment. a comment into the box that

appears. Post when finished.

Close to exit the Point Annotation mode.

Next, create a drawn annotation. the Drawing Annotation option:

your mouse to draw on the document.

When done, Save to save your drawing.

Done to exit the Drawing Annotation mode.

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To add a grade to the submitted homework, on the

right of the screen, a score into the Attempt

box.

(Optional) To add additional feedback, a

comment into the Feedback – Shown to Learner

textbox. Note that you may also add attachments

and open the full text editor. the Add Notes

link at the bottom to add any grading notes.

Submit to save the grade and your annotations.

Learning Modules

Objective: This activity explains how to create a Learning Module, which act as a focused collection of content that informs students of a particular subject. In addition, you will learn the unique features that are available when using Learning Modules.

Create a Learning Module

Week 1 Learning Module in the course menu

Build Content and Learning Module

Week 1 as the name for the module

to section 2 to modify the Learning Module options. To the

right of Enforce Sequential Viewing of the Learning Module,

the Yes radio button

Submit

Adding new content

Enter the learning module by on Week 1

Build Content and Item

your item Week 1 Overview

some text in the text field

Submit

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Linking existing content

Build Content and select Course Link

Browse… next to Choose Item

Navigate to Quiz 1

the item Quiz 1

Submit

the Go to Student View button to see how the Learning Module looks to a

student.

Adding a Web Link

Build Content and Web Link

your item Purdue Homepage

http://www.purdue.edu as the URL

to the Web Link Options section.

the Yes radio button for Open in New Window

Submit

Stretch Your Skill (optional) – Customizing Style

Objective: This exercise explains the options available to customize the colors and background of a course in Learn.

In the Control Panel, Customization to expand that section, then Teaching

Style

Experiment with changing different settings. Be sure to view changes in Student

View.

Note: Selecting “Buttons” as a style will make the menu inaccessible to users with

disabilities accessing the course with a screen reader.

Note: Some text color and background color combinations will not have sufficient

contrast to be read by individuals who are color blind or have other vision

limitations.

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Stretch Your Skill (Optional) – Add an External Link to the Course Menu

the + icon at the top left corner of your menu

Web Link

Evaluation in the Name field.

http://www.purdue.edu in the URL field.

Submit

Stretch Your Skill (Optional) – Adding an Image to Your Course

Objective: This exercise explains the different ways images can be added to content areas and within items in Learn.

Add an image (option 1)

Course Content in the menu

Build Content, then Image

the content item you are creating

To see the button for attaching an image, the Show

More button on the far right of the Text box.

the image file you want to add by browsing your

computer, the content collection, or mashups and select your image

an Image Description for those who cannot see the image.

a Title

Insert

For this example, an appropriate Image Description

would be “Purdue University mark”. It would not

be “PURDUE in black letters above UNIVERSITY in gold letters separated by a gold

line.”

It’s OK to leave the Image Description blank if an image is purely decorative and

conveys no relevant information. If you’re unsure, provide an Image Description.

When the image file appears in the Text Editor window, Submit

Your image should now appear in Course Content

Add an image (option 2)

Course Content in the menu

Build Content, then Item

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the content item you are creating

To see the button for attaching an image, the Show More

button on the far right of the Text box.

Attach an image file by the Insert/Edit

Image icon, then browsing your computer or the

content collection, your image

Image Description for those who cannot see the

image.

Briefly state the Title of the image.

Insert

For this example, appropriate alt text would be “Purdue University mark”. It would

not be “PURDUE in black letters above UNIVERSITY in gold letters separated by a

gold line.”

It’s OK to leave the Image Description blank if an image is purely decorative and

conveys no relevant information. If you’re unsure,

provide alt text.

Submit

The image file appears in the Text Editor window.

When you are ready to add the image, Submit

Your image should now appear in Course Content

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longer than the length of the course. Please advise students that the works are copyrighted

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participants.

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Post links to materials instead of PDF’s.

Works published prior to 1923 are in the public domain and can be freely used.

Use works produced by the U.S. Federal government. They are in the public domain.

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Look for works with creative commons licenses that allow the works to be used for

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Only use the amount of the work that is necessary to convey the required

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For further information on copyright, please contact the University Copyright Office – http://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco.

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Information, training materials and resources about web accessibility are available locally

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