Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Getting Started with Blackboard Vista Sasi K Benzigar Educational Technologist

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Before the workshop Go to Workshop agenda PDF Download workshop files

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Important concepts in Vista (learning contexts, roles) Create and prepare your class Manage students and grades in the grade book Create headers and footers on organizer pages Create and add a syllabus Use the basic Vista tools and add them to the toolbar Add links to files, folders, and external web sites Use the file manager to upload and download class content Agenda

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Access Blackboard Starting Fall 2009, Blackboard sections are automatically generated for every for-credit courses. Instructors and students are automatically populated from the registrar data. Instructors and Course Roster Viewers can enroll TAs in Blackboard using an external application. Scheduling Deputy can enroll TAs in Banner.

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Vista Roles Domain: Purdue University Designers and Administrators Institution: West Lafayette Group: School of Education Course: EDCI 270 Designers and Instructors Section: EDCI270- T Newby Designer Instructor Teaching Assistant Student Auditor Need to be FERPA certified

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop FERPA Certification: What & Why Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act (FERPA) governs access to students Education Records Federal Law and Purdue University policies require FERPA Certification (annual) before you can access student records on Vista min. training/certification can be completed online. –Go to –Under quick links, click FERPA Training

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Blackboard Page v For West Lafayette courses:  Click on the key to login For Open Campus:  Click the text link “West Lafayette Open Campus” at the bottom For a list of all institutions:  Go to

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Browser Issues – Using Vista Integrated browser checker included (Blackboard and Login pages) Issues:  Mac users: must have Mac OS X or higher  Must still wait for security warning to log in (or risk browser lockup)

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Getting Started Go to Select Purdue Non-Academic Campus Login with your Purdue ID & Password

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Activity: My Settings Change your personal settings Select My Settings Edit Profile –Add an address Turn the HTML Creator on by default Turn on Mail Forwarding Save

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Roles and Tabs Users who have both Instructor and Designer roles will see all tabs. Users assigned the Section Designer role only will see the Build and Student View tabs. Likewise users assigned the Section Instructor role will see the Teach and Student View tabs.

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Add Tools to the Course Menu Syllabus URL Tool Organizer Page Learning Modules

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Grade Book Interface Columns Rows.

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Grade Book Tabs Grades Members View All Custom View SCORM Grades

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Setting up the Grade Book You can customize Grade Book by: –creating and editing columns. –modifying column settings to control alignment, number of decimals, and whether the column is released to students. –modifying how some elements of the Grade Book are displayed and the order and visibility of columns.

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Setting up the Grade Book Default Columns: –Last Name, First Name, User Name, and Role –Midterm and Final Automatically Created Columns: –Assessments, Assignments, & Discussions –SCORM

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Setting up the Grade Book Some column types need further editing: –Calculated Column Create the Formula for the calculation –Letter Grade Create the numeric ranges that determine which letter grade is assigned –Selection List Terms Define all possible list values

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Activity: Enrolling Members First, we need to populate our training section with students. Using Enroll Members, enter the names of these students. – sbenziga – pon

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Activity: Creating and Editing Columns Create numeric columns titled Project1 and Project2. These columns should be grade-related and released to students. Enter grades in these columns. Create a calculated column titled Projects. This column should also be grade-related and released to the students. Create a formula which averages Project1 and Project2 to create values for this column.

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Setting up the Grade Book Grade Book Options: –Column Settings –UnFreezing and Freezing Columns –Find & Show All members –Audit History (global) More Options: –Reordering Columns –Audit History (granular) –Export/Import to/from a Spreadsheet –IDP Scoring

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Activity: Export/Import Grades Create an archive of your Grade Book by exporting grades to a spreadsheet Add a new column in Excel and import back.

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Sending grades to the Registrar Submit grades directly from Blackboard to SIS Must be Instructor of Record or Course Roster Viewer Grades from the “Final” column alone can be submitted

Distance Education Faculty Technology Workshop Campus Resources –ITaP Customer Service Center 44000; –ITaP Teaching & Learning 63257; –Blackboard Users’ Group Visit: