1. Using Blackboard: Getting Started
Adam Warren

2. Session overview what is e-learning? the user interface
configuring & structuring your course
creating content & uploading documents
creating announcements
sending s
making your course available
sources of advice and support

3. Image from Paleofuture blog at http://www.paleofuture.com
This from 100 years ago…
Image from Paleofuture blog at

4. Image from Paleofuture blog at http://www.paleofuture.com
This from 50 years ago…
Image from Paleofuture blog at

5. The Iceberg model face-to-face teaching assessed tasks
directed learning
preparation & reflection
mastery
independent learning
Roger Ottewill (CLT) On the Horizon 10,1 2002

6. Supporting independent learning
administrative information:
handbook
timetable
reading list
assessment
lecture support:
handouts
presentations
worksheets
additional reading
selected web links
communication:
announcements
to students
discussion forums
FAQ
course blog
online learning activities:
formative tests and online submission
multimedia
resource
collections
instructions and task sequence
structured
discussions, blogs and wikis

7. The life-cycle of an online course
discuss and agree aims
develop activities and resources
make course available
use to support learning and teaching
evaluate feedback from students
rollover course for following year
update activities and resources

8. Units and Blackboard courses
University ‘module’ = Blackboard ‘course’
automatically created for all modules
based on data in Banner
Introduction to Astronomy and Space Science
GAINS: PHYS1005 CRN: 12232
new course created each year
main tutor = Blackboard instructor
automatic enrollment of registered students

9. Banner courses and arbitrary courses
All courses are created automatically e.g. MANG1001, SPRT2002
Programmes of study are not created, only course modules.
Courses are created upon request
Can be for any purpose, e.g. year group, project
Instructors
Any member of staff listed by their school as teaching a course in Banner will automatically be made an instructor on the equivalent Blackboard course.
They may add colleagues as instructors
The member of staff who requests the course is set as the instructor
They may add colleagues as instructors
Students
Students listed in Banner as enrolled on a course unit are automatically enrolled on the equivalent Blackboard course.
Can also be added manually by an instructor or self-enrol (if allowed)
Students must self-enrol or be added manually by an instructor

10. discussion forums + messages
Course rollover
03-04-Unit name-12345
04-05-Unit name-12345
content
content
settings
settings
discussion forums + messages
discussion forums
students
students

11. Information and advice
iSolutions
training and technical support
computing/elearn/blackboard/staffindex.html
Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit
educational advice, support and training

12. discussion forums + messages
Course rollover
06-07-Unit name-12345
07-08-Unit name-12345
content
content
settings
settings
discussion forums + messages
discussion forums
students
students