Welcome to Blackboard

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Welcome to Blackboard

• CSU-Pueblos On-line Teaching and Learning
  Environment

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Why Blackboard?

• Its the trend in education
• Students expect it
• Course information is more accessible
• Provides experience in using technology
  develops self-confidence

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Why Blackboard?

• Addresses different learning styles and provides
  alternative ways to learn
• Visual-tactile-audible medium
• Access to world wide web
• Instructor control in wysiwig environment

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What Blackboard does

• Access from anywhere
• Class announcements
• E-mail
• Access class documents, learning tools
• Student gradebook

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Our Agenda
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Access

• Institution page faculty students
• Class page during current semester
• Course development pages are always available
  request from ITC

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The Instructional Technology Center Role

• Training for instructors in technology and
  learning aids
• Problem solving
• One-on-one mentoring

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The Instructional Technology Center Role

• Classes in
• Bb, Bb Tools, MS FrontPage, MS PowerPoint,
  SmartBoard
• Instructional Design
• Digital AV Use and Applications
• Creating a Hybrid Course
• Learning Community Building
• Just-in-Time Teaching

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The Instructional Technology Center Role

• Program development mentoring
• Free loan of digital equipment
• AV production, editing CD creation
• Etc.

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Entering Blackboard

• http//blackboard.colostate-pueblo.edu
• Or http//www.colostate-pueblo.edu and go to
• T-WOLF portal

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Login

• Instructors and students use same method. Type
  in
• E-mail user id WITHOUT _at_colostate-pueblo.edu
• Birthdate entered as mmdd19yy
• Ex. 10121956 or 03151965

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Tips for Bb Use

• See notes
• Click on In Blackboard
• Go to Blackboard Support
• See Blackboard FAQs at ITC Web Sitehttp//www.col
  ostate-pueblo.edu/itc
• Login and access AITC 101 for pointers

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Tips for Bb Use

• Problems?
• Instructors call the ITC, x-2024
• Students call
• Help Desk _at_ x-2002

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Now to Blackboard . . . . .

• Click on your browser
• Access
• Login