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Blackboard Training Series
Cohort 1 Agenda Webinars (2 Hours)
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Webinars Date Time
Designing e-Learning CoursesMonday, June 29, 2020
10:00 AM EDT
Support and Success for the Online Learner
Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:00 PM EDT
Designing Engaging Discussions
Monday, July 13, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
Mastering the Grade Center Monday, July 20, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
Assignments, Assessments, and Rubrics
Monday, July 27, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
All Cohorts Office Hours (1.5 hours)
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Date TimeWednesday, July 1, 2020 10:00 AM EDT
Thursday, July 9, 2020 2:00 PM EDT
Wednesday, July 15, 2020 2:00 PM EDT
Friday, July 24, 2020 1:00 PM EDT
Thursday, July 30, 2020 2:00 PM EDT
Thursday, August 6, 2020 1:00 PM EDT
Thursday, August 13, 2020 1:00 PM EDT
Wednesday, August 19, 2020 1:00 PM EDT
Your Trainer
Professional Experience for Andrea
• 25 years corporate sales/marketing
• 10+ years adjunct faculty, community college and university; online, face-to-face, hybrid
• 7+ years senior functional consultant, trainer, course developer
Andrea WhiteSenior ConsultantBlackboard Global Client Experience
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Your Trainer
Professional Experience for Jeff
• 11+ years higher education
• 11+ years adjunct faculty, community college and university; online, face-to-face, hybrid
• 9+ years consultant, trainer, instructional designer
Jeff GeronimoManager, Educational Consulting & TrainingBlackboard Global Client Experience
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Designing Engaging Discussions
Objectives • Identify the benefits of discussion forums.
• Discuss how to create meaningful discussions.
• Experiment with creating, managing, and grading discussions.
• Develop questions using Bloom’s Taxonomy.
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Overview of Discussion Boards
• Social interaction among peers
• A medium for collaboration
• A tool to pose questions
• Demonstrate understanding or application
• Record of discussion
Benefits
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Discussion Meaningful Discussions
• What netiquette guidelines will you share with your learners to support meaningful online discussions?
• How can you make a discussion prompt effective in order to have meaningful online discussion?
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Accessing the Discussion Board
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Discussion Lifecycle
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Discussion Lifecycle
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RECIPE SHARING
Discussion Forum Structure (with replies possible at each post)
PIZZA PIE SOUR
CREAM
MASHED
POTATOS
BAKED MAC
AND
CHEESE
NEW
THREAD
YOUR
FAVORITE
POST A
POST B
POST C
POST A
POST B
POST C
POST A
POST B
POST C
POST A
POST B
POST C
Practice Posting and Replying to a Forum
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• Access https://learnonline.blackboard.com/
• Username = your email without @ccri.edu (not case sensitive)
• Password: CHANGEME1234 (Case sensitive)
• Go to Webinar Practice: Discussions; post based on first letter of last name
• A-E, contribute to the Pizza Pie thread.
• F-L, contribute to the Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes thread.
• M-Q, contribute to the Baked Mac and Cheese thread.
• P-Z, create a new thread of your own choosing, or add to one of the new threads.
Practical Post and Reply to a Forum
Engaging with the Discussion Boards
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Discussion Board Roles
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Reorder forums
Collect posts
Search discussions
Filter posts
Sort posts
Tag threads
Managing Forums
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• Encouraging participation
• Providing better organization and flow
• Assigning a moderator
Best Practices for Discussions Boards
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Creating Discussions
Access individual tools from the course menu
Access tools from the Tools link on the course menu
Access individual tools from a course area.
Method 3Method 2Method 1
Adding Tools to Content Areas
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Add the Discussion
Determine settings
Create a new thread
Moderate thread for new
posts
Creating a New Discussion Board
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Items to Consider
Do you want to allow learners to have the ability to:
• Delete or edit their own posts?
• Post anonymously?
• Create their own threads?
• Publish their own posts?
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Posts: Read vs Unread
View: List vs Tree
Status: Lock vs Unlocked
Message Actions: Flag vs Unflagged
Email Alerts
Grading Discussion Posts
Interacting with Forums
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Writing Effective Discussion Questions
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Discussion Successful and Engaging Discussions
• Identify at least three things that will make discussion threads engaging.
• Identify at least two things that will set learners up for success when participating in a discussion thread.
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• Establish discussion etiquette
• Descriptive subject lines
• Keep posts short
• Include something new
• Back up your statements
• Use professional language
• Use attachments or links
• Stay on topic
• Be respectful
• Quantity and quality
Discussion Etiquette
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Practical Create a Discussion
Grading Discussions
Participation and Grading
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Create Participate Grade View Grade
Discussion Grading Process
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Practical Assessing Discussions
Questions
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