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Enhancing Student Engagement: Developing an Advanced Blackboard Site for Diverse Learning Areas

In today's session, we explore the development of an advanced Blackboard site aimed at enhancing student engagement and accessibility to course resources across various subject areas. This project aims to embed Destinations in CMS activities, promote the benefits of Blackboard for tutors, and create an interactive site that appeals visually to all undergraduate students. Key challenges include integrating subject-specific information and transitioning from traditional CMS to a more streamlined online platform. We'll evaluate existing materials, gather feedback, and plan the next steps for wider project implementation.

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Enhancing Student Engagement: Developing an Advanced Blackboard Site for Diverse Learning Areas

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  1. Developing an advanced Blackboard site Claire Jones &Tania Lyden Claire Jones &Tania Lyden

  2. Today’s session • Traditional CMS • Aims of the project • Subject areas • Main content area • Thorny issues • Subject specific sites • Wraparound survey • Evaluation • What next?

  3. Traditional CMS • Compulsory to all second year students • 5 Credit module • Based around the DOTS model • Taught sessions + Assignments + Online learning

  4. Aims of the project • Embed Destinations in CMS activities at Reading • Promote the benefits of Blackboard to CMS tutors • Enable all u/grad students to have access to Destinations • Develop a good quality site that is visually appealing and interactive in all subject areas • Increase tutor engagement in CMS • Incorporate use of online evaluation in CMS activities • Evaluate materials produced by the project • Disseminate findings internally and externally

  5. Subject areas • Fine Art • Maths • Systems Engineering • Soil Science • Plant Science • Statistics • Biological Sciences • Film, Theatre and TV • Chemistry • European and Modern Languages • Politics

  6. Main content areas • How to study the course • Taught sessions • Online learning • Assessment • CAS • Staff information • What’s on

  7. Advantages and thorny issues • Engaging students in online learning • Subject specific information • Unwieldy nature of Blackboard • Subject specific tailoring • Increased rigour • Less need for printed information • Differentiate information

  8. Subject specific sites: Fine Art www.bb.reading.ac.uk

  9. Subject specific sites: Biological Sciences

  10. Wraparound survey Computer Science and IT Students 4 3 2 1 0 • What is a wraparound survey? • Benefits: • To the student • To the Careers Advisory Service • To the school/department • Challenges • Completion • Clunky blackboard • Analysis BeforeCMS After CMS

  11. Some feedback… Have you reached any useful conclusions about the career areas you want to explore further and those you do not? Limited conclusions: “If you have made a start on looking at your options and made some limited decisions, then CMS will help you go into things in more depth. Make the most of section that help you explore your options and make sure you reflect on what you want from a job in order to differentiate between them. Session helping you to develop your self awareness might help here. Don’t forget that if you want to consider your options unrelated to your degree then use the Careers Advisory Service for more information.” Some conclusions: “If you are beginning to narrow down the alternatives that’s great. Keep going! If you feel you need more ideas on how to research specific areas then do ask a Careers Adviser. Remember there are many central events that can help you explore career areas further, such as fairs, presentations by employers and Headstart events.”

  12. Evaluation • Student focus groups • Tutor evaluation

  13. What next? • More tailoring • More visually appealing • Roll out the project to all years • Input from other university services • Advertising vacancies

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