Take a look at this comprehensive resource on Blackboard 8’s Grade Center. Thirty-two FAQs detail everything from rearranging your Grade Center items to weighting grades by item and category. This guide tells you how to do what you did in BB7 in the new version in an easy-to-read format. Check it out, and comment on the tip that was most useful to you!
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One of UR’s own SCS distance-education professors, Paula Gordon, writes about the positive pedagogical impact of a course management system, particularly Blackboard. I thought this piece might be particularly interesting for UR faculty, particularly those who haven’t yet dived in to the more advanced functionality of Blackboard or another LMS, to read.
Here is the list of workshops we will be providing for Blackboard 8 during the week of January 5-9. All workshops will be in the TLC Training Room 320 of Boatwright Library. Registration is not required. Please feel free to bring your own laptop computer.
- Tuesday, January 6
- Blackboard Basics – 10 – 11 AM
- Changes in Blackboard – 11 AM – noon
- Grade Center – 1 – 2 PM
- Wimba Voice – 2 – 3 PM
- Discussion Board – 3 – 4 PM
- Wednesday, January 7
- Changes in Blackboard – 9 – 10 AM
- Wimba Voice – 10 – 11 AM
- Walk-in Assistance – 11 AM – noon
- Thursday, January 8
- Grade Center – 9 – 10 AM
- Discussion Board – 10 – 11 AM
- Walk-in Assistance – 11 AM – noon
- Friday, January 9
- Walk-in Assistance – 9 AM – noon
Please note that more training will be available throughout the semester, but we wanted to provide this first list since they come so soon after holiday week.
If you have any questions, please send an email to blackboard@richmond.edu .
Want to encourage more student participation using the threaded discussions in Blackboard 8? Take a look at some of the pedagogical strategies offered by Professor Klemm of Texas A&M.
1. Require participation.
2. Form learning teams.
3. Make the activity interesting.
4. Don’t settle for just opinions.
5. Structure the activity.
6. Require a hand-in assignment (deliverable).
7. Know what you are looking for and involve yourself to help
make it happen.
8. Peer grading.
http://resources.blackboard.com/scholar/general/pages/ictraining/Eight_Ways_Engage_Conferences.pdf
The Blackboard upgrade is planned for January 2 through 7. During this time, Blackboard will be unavailable. Courses requested and created before the upgrade will be available after the upgrade is complete as well as uploaded content. Therefore, feel free to begin preparing spring semester courses now.
We will continue to post guides to help make the migration as easy as possible for faculty, staff, and students. We are also planning short workshops for instructors, and we are intending to offer some before winter break (week of January 5). These workshops would via demonstration rather than hands-on since the Blackboard upgrade will not yet be available to the audience.
Please pay attention to announcements in SpiderBytes.