Support Model Rollout

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School of Pharmacy Educational Technology/
Blackboard Update Fall 2005
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Administrative Reminders

• Student Enrollment processing begins Wednesday
  8/24
• Processed once daily Monday - Friday
• Only students who are registered will appear in
  your course site
• Graduate Teaching Assistants from PSC and PHSR
  will be enrolled automatically after their
  training has been completed.
• Send any additional teaching assistant
  information to help_at_rx.umaryland.edu

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Administrative Reminders

• Course sites are only available if you make them
  available to your students
• Previous Semester Course material will be made
  unavailable to students three weeks into the
  semester.
• Exception (3rd Year Required Spring 2005 courses
  will be made unavailable 3 weeks after the Class
  of 2006 returns from rotations)
• Course Archives
• Material from Spring 2001-Fall 2002 has been
  removed from Blackboard
• Spring/Fall 2003 Material will be removed
  mid-October
• Spring 2004 Material will be removed mid-April

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Whats New for Fall 2005

• Chris Klimas
• New Instructional Technology Specialist
• New Instruct! Newsletter for Instructors and
  Teaching Assistants (Monthly Publication)
• New Learn! Newsletter for Students (Bi-annual
  Publication)
• Incoming PharmD Student Survey
• New online training for Blackboard
• Blackboard Upgrade Application Pack 3 and
  Building Blocks

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Technology Survey of Incoming PharmD Students

• 121 Students Responses
• 86 of Students have had previous experience with
  one or more course management systems
• 14 had no previous experience with course
  management systems
• 51 have had previous experience with Blackboard

Number of Student Responses
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Self-reported Technology Comfort / Experience
Level

• Sending and Receiving Email
• 86 Very Comfortable
• 14 Somewhat Comfortable
• 2 Somewhat Uncomfortable
• Word Processing (Using MS Word, other word
  processing programs
• 72 Very Comfortable
• 26 Somewhat Comfortable
• 2 Somewhat Uncomfortable

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Self-reported Technology Comfort / Experience
Level

• Creating Spreadsheets
• 39 Very Comfortable
• 44 Somewhat Comfortable
• 13 Somewhat Uncomfortable
• 2 Very Uncomfortable
• 2 Do not Use
• Creating Presentations
• 39 Very Comfortable
• 42 Somewhat Comfortable
• 7 Somewhat Uncomfortable
• 5 Very Uncomfortable
• 7 Do not Use

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New Initiative Online Blackboard Training

• First Module
• New Instructor and Teaching Assistant Training
• Launches Today
• Pilot group, new graduate teaching assistants
• Planned Evaluation
• Survey of GTAs once the semester begins to
  evaluate usefulness and instruction quality
• Survey of Coursemasters with GTAs at the semester
  conclusion

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New Initiative Online Blackboard Training
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Application Pack 3 Improvement Highlights

• Review Status
• Adaptive Release
• Advanced Assessment Questions
• Assessment Question Completion Status
• Performance Dashboard
• Advanced Navigation Bar
• Gradebook Null Option

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Review Status
New content setting for items that allows
students to mark the material as reviewed. The
User Progress page reports which students have
reviewed the content item.
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Adaptive Release
Provides the ability for an instructor to create
custom learning paths through course content and
activities. Content items, discussions,
assessments, assignments, or other activities can
be released to students based on a set of
criteria including date/time, specific
individuals, group membership, institutional
role, grade on a particular test or assignment,
or Review Status.
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Advanced Assessment Questions

• Allows the creation of additional questions types
  within assessments.
• Calculation Question
• Numerical Answer
• File Upload Question Type
• Hotspot Question Type
• Either/Or Question
• Fill in the Blanks Plus
• Multiple Choice/Fill in the Blank Combo
• Opinion Scale
• Short Answer

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Assessment Question Completion Status
Students may skip questions that they may wish to
come back to in a question-by-question
assessment. This feature allows students to
clearly identify which questions they have
actually completed from the ones that they have
skipped as they progress through the assessment.
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Performance Dashboard
View key information and outcomes for all course
users. The Performance Dashboard displays the
last time each user logged in, their course role,
Adaptive Release criteria, Review Status for
content items, and grades.
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Advanced Navigation Bar
Commonly used tools are separated from the Course
Menu to make them easier to find and use. New
detail view added. If allowed by the instructor,
users can toggle between the default Course Menu
view and the Detail view.
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Gradebook Null Option
Excludes incomplete items from Gradebook
calculations items that have not yet been taken
or graded can be excluded from grades, averages,
and other calculations.
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New Building Block Link Checker
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Information Available to Faculty

• Available now
• Blackboard how-to tutorials and special School of
  Pharmacy specific Blackboard documentation
• Training Module for New Instructors/ Teaching
  Assistants
• Available in the coming weeks
• Full Survey Results of Incoming Student Survey
• Summary of Blackboard Usage Statistics for the
  2004-2005 Academic Year
• September 20th 1100 am Noon (Location TBA)
• Open Seminar Instructors and Teaching Assistants
  Using Blackboard Effectively
• Available Early October
• Online Training for new features in Blackboard
  Application Pack 3 and Building Blocks