1. Using Blackboard:Getting Started Adam Warren a.j.warren@soton.ac.uk02380 594486

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

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

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

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 online learning activities: formativetests and online submission multimedia resource collections instructionsand tasksequence structured discussions,blogs andwikis • administrative information: • handbook • timetable • reading list • assessment • lecture support: • handouts • presentations • worksheets • additional reading • selected web links • communication: • announcements • email to students • discussion forums • FAQ • course blog

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 Banner Arbitrary Course All courses are created automaticallye.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 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 Students

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

11. Information and advice • iSolutions • training and technical support • http://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/computing/elearn/blackboard/staffindex.html • Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit • educational advice, support and training • www.soton.ac.uk/lateu