Blackboard Mobile™ Learn

Connect with Your Students the Way They Connect with Each Other

Mary Talalay, MS, MPH

Objectives

• Understand Blackboard Mobile Learning tools

• Determine which features of Blackboard Mobile Learning will enhance your course and improve student communication

• Choose 2 features to test with students.• Obtain feedback from students.

Ideas, Questions, Action Items

On my way to Johns Hopkins…

Walking through campus…

It’s obvious.Johns Hopkins’ community is connected.

Source: Digital Media Test Kitchen

The Blackboard Mobile™ Learn Platform

• Takes interactive teaching and learning mobile, giving students and educators access to their courses, content and organizations on a variety of devices:– iOS®– Android™– BlackBerry®– webOS® smartphones.

What Can You Do With Blackboard Mobile Learn?

• Dropbox Integration

Dropbox Integration

• Students and instructors can easily manage critical course documents from their mobile devices, without ever leaving the Blackboard Mobile Learn app.

• Students and instructors save their course content to their personal Dropbox, and also upload documents to discussions and blogs with a single click.

What Can You Do With Blackboard Mobile Learn?

• Dropbox Integration

• Mobile Tests

Mobile Tests

• Any test that includes compatible question types (Multiple Choice, Hot Spot, Fill in the Blank, etc) can be taken from Blackboard Mobile Learn.

What Can You Do With Blackboard Mobile Learn?

• Dropbox Integration• Mobile Tests

• Push Notifications

Push Notifications

• Students can now elect to receive automatic, personalized notifications delivered straight to their mobile devices to help them stay informed.

• Students can receive notifications for new announcements, new graded items, a test being posted, and many other course activities.

What Can You Do With Blackboard Mobile Learn?

• Dropbox Integration• Mobile Tests• Push Notifications

• Announcements

Annoucements

• Assignment due? • Class cancelled? • This is where instructors go

to post the news students need to know.

• Students have instant, on-the-go access to the latest announcements, and instructors can post announcements anywhere, anytime.

What Can You Do With Blackboard Mobile Learn?

• Dropbox Integration• Mobile Tests• Push Notifications• Announcements

• Grades

Grades

• Students can find out how they did on their last midterm or homework assignment by using the Grades tool.

• They'll even be sent a Push Notification as soon as an item in their course has been graded.

What Can You Do With Blackboard Mobile Learn?

• Dropbox Integration• Mobile Tests• Push Notifications• Announcements• Grades

• Discussions

Discussions

• The Discussion Board is a key course communication tool for engaging students.

• It's a forum for students to ask and answer questions while allowing instructors to chime in.

What Can You Do With Blackboard Mobile Learn?

• Dropbox Integration• Mobile Tests• Push Notifications• Announcements• Grades• Discussions• Blogs• Journals• Tasks• Roster• Content

Where do I start?

How do I connect to blackboard.jhu.edu?

• iPhone, iPad– Launch the Blackboard Mobile Learn for iPad

application– Search for 'Johns Hopkins University’– Authenticate with your JHED credentials– Select from your courses

How do I connect to blackboard.jhu.edu?

• Android (Sprint)– Launch the Blackboard Mobile Learn for

Android application– Search for 'Johns Hopkins University’– Authenticate with your JHED credentials.– Select from your courses

What’s the best part?

• Technically, there is nothing you need to do as an instructor to enable access to your course via Blackboard Mobile Learn; the information you publish using the Learn environment on your desktop or laptop will seamlessly integrate with the mobile environment, and vice versa.

Student Reviews – iTunes Store

• “Wish I had it earlier in my degree as I'm in my last semester now an the amount of times I've had to log into blackboard this app is a lifesaver, just makes it so much easier.”

• “Another feature which I love is the drop box link. You can go into your course, open a PDF and just add it straight to your drop box so when you go to your computer it's all there already downloaded.”

Translate that value for your students

• How would you use this app to enhance your students’ learning experience?