Blackboard Basics, or Things to know before developing a Blackboard course

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Blackboard Basics, orThings to know before
developing a Blackboard course

• Thomas Birk, Ph.D.
• LEIS/ITS

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Objectives Part One

• Participants will be able to
• Recognize the steps in having a Blackboard course
  created
• Login to Blackboard at UNMC
• Develop a plan for creating the structure as well
  as the look and feel of their Blackboard
  courses
• Take existing learning materials (primarily text)
  and convert them for use in Blackboard courses
• Enroll and Remove students from your course

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Objectives Part Two

• Participants will be able to
• Make PowerPoint presentation available to your
  learners (three ways PPT, HTML, PDF)
• Create tests and surveys
• Successfully navigate the Gradebook
• Insert multimedia into Blackboard
• Strategy for end-of-the-semester course
  management

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Creating Blackboard Courses

• Contact LEIS personnel and request a course in
  Blackboard be created
• Provide the following information
• Name of course
• Course number
• Instructor(s)

Handout
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Once the course is created

• Log in to Blackboard
• Go to My Courses and find the newly created
  course
• Click on the course and you will be taken to the
  Announcements page of your course
• http//my.unmc.edu/

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Intranet http//info.unmc.edu
http//my.unmc.edu
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Objectives

• Participants will be able to
• Recognize the steps in having a Blackboard course
  created
• Login to Blackboard at UNMC
• Develop a plan for creating the structure as well
  as the look and feel of their Blackboard
  courses
• Take existing learning materials (primarily text)
  and convert them for use in Blackboard courses
• Enroll and Remove students from your course

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Initial Planning Questions

• What is the purpose of using online learning in
  your course(s)?
• Repository?
• Supplement class instruction?
• Distance learning?
• What is the structure of the course?
• What is the structure of the content?
• What are the needs of the content?

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Planning Blackboard

• Blackboard is essentially a shell for your
  learning content
• How do you want to package the content?
• Folders
• Items
• Learning Units

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Planning Blackboard

• What types of content?
• Text materials
• Photographs
• Images, graphs
• Videos
• Animations

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Features available

• Content
• Text
• Multimedia
• Hypertext
• Management
• Available/Unavailable
• Enroll users
• Assign roles
• Un-enroll users
• Archive information

• Tools
• Testing
• Surveys
• Create small groups

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Objectives

• Participants will be able to
• Recognize the steps in having a Blackboard course
  created
• Login to Blackboard at UNMC
• Develop a plan for creating the structure as well
  as the look and feel of their Blackboard
  courses
• Take existing learning materials (primarily text)
  and convert them for use in Blackboard courses
• Enroll and Remove students from your course

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Today

• We will focus on text content.
• Five ways to insert text into Blackboard
• Type/Copy paste
• Attach
• Convert to HTML
• Convert to PDF
• Direct link to web resource

Handout
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Today

• We will also enroll and remove students from your
  Blackboard course.

Handout
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Hands-On
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Objectives

• Participants will be able to
• Recognize the steps in having a Blackboard course
  created
• Login to Blackboard at UNMC
• Develop a plan for creating the structure as well
  as the look and feel of their Blackboard
  courses
• Take existing learning materials (primarily text)
  and convert them for use in Blackboard courses
• Enroll and Remove students from your course

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Blackboard BasicsPart Deux
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Objectives Part Two

• Participants will be able to
• Make PowerPoint presentation available to your
  learners (three ways PPT, HTML, PDF)
• Create tests and surveys
• Successfully navigate the Gradebook
• Insert multimedia into Blackboard
• Strategy for end-of-the-semester course
  management

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PowerPoint and Blackboard

• Three ways to insert .ppt files into Bb
• Attach
• PDF
• HTML

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Hands-On
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End-of-term

• We do not remove any courses from Blackboard
  unless
• There is no activity
• We are told to do so by the instructor(s)
• Retool and relaunch
• Regularly save your grades, especially at
  end-of-term

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Contact Information

• Tom Birk
• 559-2105
• tbirk_at_unmc.edu
• Melissa Diers
• 559-4688
• mdiers_at_unmc.edu