All about Blackboard Overview of Blackboard What is

"All about Blackboard"

Overview of Blackboard What is the platform you have chosen? Blackboard

Summary/Overview • Blackboard is shaping the future of education with big ideas that are transforming the face of education. • Blackboard is an Internet-based application, it allows instructors to put class materials on the Internet and provides a variety of tools to facilitate teaching and learning. • Blackboard is a web-based learning management system (LMS) designed to support fully online courses or provide a space for face-to-face course supplementation.

Summary/Overview • Blackboard is one of the more popular LMS software available today. It is a commercial paid LMS and it is frequently used in online education. Blackboard helps you make learning more effective in and beyond the traditional walls. • Blackboard helps you make learning more effective in and beyond the traditional walls. Blackboard provides educators an easy way to clearly connect with students. And also to allow teachers to design courses and add materials whenever, anytime.

Summary/Overview for Blackboard Who Blackboard serve? • K-12 and higher education to adult learning and workplace training. • Blackboard nurture learners and support those who are deeply involved in making education possible.

Communication with students Blackboard. • Students and teachers are able to connect using both asynchronous and synchronous methods. • Students can participate in discussion boards which are done at any time if the student completes them be the assigned date. • Students can also watch video lectures and audio recordings. • Students and teachers can participate in synchronous web conferences.

Communication with students on Blackboard. Asynchronous/Synchronous • Students are able to participate in discussion boards which are done at any time. • Students can also watch video lectures and audio recordings. • Students and teachers can participate in synchronous web conferences. • Some of the Blackboard tools that can be used as asynchronous tools include Mail, Discussions, Announcements, and even Learning Modules, Assessments, and Assignments.

Communication Functionality List for Blackboard. • Announcements - Use announcements to post important and timely information for your students. If you are using the default settings your students will see the announcements area first when logging into your class. • Digital Drop Box Allow your students to submit their assignments to you without using attachments. Faculty can grade and return assignment through the digital drop box. • Grade Center Keep track of student grades on all assignments using the Grade Center. Students have the ability to check their own grades and to see where they are.

Organization for Blackboard • Blackboard offers a variety of ways to organize content in your course site. Good course design allows students to easily locate the information they need. You may choose to organize by topics, sections or weeks. To contain each topic/section/week's materials you can use a Content Folder or a Learning Module.

Strongest Feature's of Blackboard • The strongest organizational feature for Blackboard is the course menu which is designed with tabs. • Blackboards menus are designed to be user friendly and visually appealing. • Blackboard Portal functionality leverages flexible modules and tabs to provide a one-stop shop for all academic and campus information. ”

Weakest Feature's of blackboard • The weakest organizational feature in Blackboard is that there is not a standard format for Blackboard because it is so customizable. • That means that some courses are designed differently from others and students need to learn the individual course layout

Response’s to using Blackboard from users

Student Responses • Online education has been greatly improved by the use of LMS software. • There are many different LMS’s available today and how a student responds to the software effects a schools decision when choosing an LMS. • Respond well to Blackboard because: it is user friendly, easy to use easy to understand visually appealing. Students enjoy the freedom that online education provides for them.

Likes and Dislikes • Understanding. • Easy layout Not fully functional with some versions of some browsers.

Benefits for Students • students access important course information anytime, anywhere. • students participate in courses during their busy lives. • submit assignments electronically work with a variety of built-in Web-based tools such as eportfolios, wikis, and blogs

Benefits for Teachers • check assignments mobile app for Blackboard • respond at his/her convenience • convenient office hours

How blackboard is used Blackboard will be used as a new learning experience that helps you provide safer schools, broader community engagement, and personalized learning environments that help every student reach their optimal level of achievement.

Blackboard being beneficial • Yes, Provides quick and easy access to critical and timely information regarding a user’s institution, contributes to a user’s success and presents it in one location

Resources: • Blackboard Best Practices. (n. d. ). Retrieved November 06, 2016, from http: //www. celt. iastate. edu/teaching/blackbo ard-best-practices • Role, B. (n. d. ). K-12 Solutions for School District Leaders | Blackboard. Retrieved November 06, 2016, from http: //www. blackboard. com/k 12/schooldistrict-leaders. aspx

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