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Blackboard Essentials for Teachers. You only need basic computer skills to follow this course on creating web pages and interactive features for your students using Blackboard. Building and managing powerful eLearning courses has never been simpler

Blackboard Essentials for Teachers. You only need basic computer skills to follow this course on creating web pages and interactive features for your students using Blackboard. Building and managing powerful eLearning courses has never been simpler

William Rice, William Rice

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Blackboard is the world's most popular commercial learning management system. With Blackboard you can construct and deliver professional quality elearning courses with ease. Its many features, which allow you to manage courses, grading and assessments, and social collaboration, are the standard against which other learning management systems are measured. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers shows you how to use Blackboard's most essential features by guiding you through the development of a demonstration course, built on Blackboard's free site for teachers, coursesites.com. You will also learn more about Blackboard's most important features, such as the gradebook, using clear instructions to guide you every step of the way. By following an example course, this book will guide you, step-by-step, through creating your own Blackboard course. Start by adding static material for students to view, such as pages, links, and media. Then, add interaction to your courses, with discussion boards, blogs, and wikis. Most importantly, engage your students in your course by communicating with them, assessing them, and putting them into groups. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers will enable you to take your elearning course from inception, to construction, to delivery.
  • Blackboard Essentials for Teachers
    • Table of Contents
    • Blackboard Essentials for Teachers
    • Credits
    • About the Author
    • About the Reviewers
    • www.PacktPub.com
      • Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
        • Why Subscribe?
        • Free Access for Packt account holders
    • Preface
      • What this book covers
      • What you need for this book
      • Who this book is for
      • Conventions
      • Reader feedback
      • Customer support
        • Errata
        • Piracy
        • Questions
    • 1. The Blackboard Experience
      • Home page
      • Announcements
      • Discussion Board
      • Gradebook
      • Content Page
      • Learning Module
      • Blog
      • Forum
      • Uploaded files
      • Video
      • Wiki
      • Assignment
      • Test
      • Groups
      • Summary
    • 2. Organizing a Course with Pages and Learning Modules
      • Adding Content Areas to hold and organize course content
        • What is Content Area?
        • How to add a Content Area
        • Whats next?
      • Adding a Blank Page tool, which can hold any content or links that you want
        • What is a Blank Page?
        • How to add a Blank Page
          • Adding a Blank Page to your course
          • Adding a Blank Page to the Content Area
        • What's next?
      • Composing a page with the HTML editor
        • What's next?
      • Creating a sequential path for the student to work through, using a Learning Module
        • When to use a learning path
        • How to add a learning path
          • Adding a Learning Module to a Content Area
        • What's next?
      • About the Availability and View settings
      • Keeping students informed with Course Tools
        • What are Course Tools?
        • How to add Course Tools
          • Adding a Course Tool to the Course Menu
          • Adding a Course Tool to the home page
      • Summary
    • 3. Adding Static Material to a Course
      • Adding a file for students to download
        • File versus item
        • Content Collections
        • How to add a file
          • Adding an item
        • What's next?
      • Adding a video to your course
        • Uploading a video in your course
        • Linking to a video that is on another site
        • Embedding a video on a Blank Page
        • Embedding a video that is hosted on another site
        • What's next?
      • Adding a web link to your course
        • Adding a link to an external website
        • Adding a link to a Course Asset
      • Adding an image to your course
        • Adding an image to a Content Area
      • Summary
    • 4. Discussion Boards
      • About Discussion Boards
      • Creating forums with Discussion Board
      • Making Discussion Board available to students
        • Adding a link to Discussion Board on the Course Menu
        • Creating a link to a forum
      • Managing a forum
        • Collecting posts in a forum
        • Grading posts in a forum
      • Summary
    • 5. Blogs and Wikis
      • About blogs
        • Individual versus class blogs
        • Blogs Course Tool link
        • Creating a blog
        • Making blogs available to students
          • Adding a link to the Blogs page
          • Creating a link to a blog
        • Managing a blog
          • Grading blogs
          • Deleting and editing entries and comments
      • About wikis
        • Creating a wiki
          • Adding a link to the Wikis page
      • Summary
    • 6. Assignments
      • About assignments
        • Adding an assignment
        • Responding to an assignment
      • Summary
    • 7. Testing Students
      • Creating a test
        • Creating a blank test
        • Determining the behavior of questions by using Question Settings
        • Adding and creating questions on Test Canvas
        • Adding the test to a page in your course
        • Setting the Test Options page
      • Creating questions
        • Navigating to the Test Canvas page
        • Enter the type, title, and question text
        • Adding answers and answer feedback
        • Adding categories, keywords, and notes
        • Other types of questions
          • Calculated formula questions
          • Calculated numeric
          • Either/OrTrue/False, Yes/No, Right/Wrong, Correct/Incorrect
          • Essay
          • File Response
          • Filling in the Blank and Multiple Blanks
          • Hot Spot
          • Jumbled Sentence
          • Matching
          • Multiple Answer and Multiple Choice
          • Opinion Scale/Likert
          • Ordering
          • Quiz Bowl
          • Short Answer
      • Random blocks versus question sets
        • Question pools, the source for random blocks
        • Question sets: fewer limits, greater choices
        • Which should I use: Random Block or Question Set?
      • Creating a question pool
      • Creating a random block
      • Creating Question Set
      • Summary
    • 8. Working with Groups
      • Creating groups
        • Creating a single group with manual enrollment
        • Creating a group with self enrollment
        • From the student's point of view self-enrollment into a group
        • Creating multiple groups at once
      • How group settings affect activities
      • Sending e-mails to members of a group
      • Summary
    • 9. Communicating with Students Using E-mails, Messages, and Announcements
      • The difference between e-mails, messages, announcements, and alerts
      • Sending an e-mail to your students
      • Sending messages
      • Posting announcements
      • Summary
    • 10. Using Collaborate/CourseSites Live
      • Making your first online meeting a test session
        • Making Collaborate available to you and your students
        • Launching the Collaborate tool
        • Configuring audio and video
        • Showing a PowerPoint slideshow
        • Using basic whiteboard tools
        • Using the chat
        • Using emoticons during a Collaborate session
        • Talking in Collaborate
        • Taking your students on a web tour
        • Dropping your students on a web page with Web Push
        • Sharing an application on your computer
        • Giving a student the ability to share an application
        • Whiteboarding over a shared application
      • Summary
        • Before the session
        • During the session
        • After the session
    • 11. Grading Students
      • Viewing Grade Center
        • Finding things that need to be graded
        • Smart Views
        • Creating Grading Periods
        • Creating categories
        • Showing, hiding, and moving rows
        • Some examples of filtering and finding
      • Assigning and entering grades
        • Screen Reader Mode
          • Manually overriding an automated grade
        • Entering all of the students' grades for an activity
      • Preparing a report for grades
        • Adding a calculated column
        • Reporting versus downloading grades
      • Summary
    • Index
  • Title: Blackboard Essentials for Teachers. You only need basic computer skills to follow this course on creating web pages and interactive features for your students using Blackboard. Building and managing powerful eLearning courses has never been simpler
  • Author: William Rice, William Rice
  • Original title: Blackboard Essentials for Teachers. You only need basic computer skills to follow this course on creating web pages and interactive features for your students using Blackboard. Building and managing powerful eLearning courses has never been simpler.
  • ISBN: 9781849692939, 9781849692939
  • Date of issue: 2012-07-26
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3bck
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing