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A Blackboard Course Site

Education Development Office

City University of Hong Kong

CityU’s Blackboardin a nutshell

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CityU’s Blackboard in a Nutshell

CityU’s Blackboard Blackboard Academic Suite that CityU adopted, is an

institution-wide e-learning platform which comprises of a Learning Management System, an e-Portal, and a Content Collection to provide a seamless teaching and learning environment.

Collection

PortalPages


Accessing courses CityU Blackboard Learning Management

System is for CityU staff & students Having login to the system with the CityU

electronic ID, for staff, courses taught in the current

semester will be listed for students, courses enrolled and made

available by instructors will be listed for immediate access

What is my electronic ID, EID? CityU’s Blackboard (Production): https://eportal.cityu.edu.hk CityU’s Blackboard is best viewed in 1024x768, with Internet Explorer 6 or above, JavaScript enabled


Course site creation


I need a Blackboard course site Make request

Login e-Portal, select AIMS and then “Faculty & Advisor Menu” and then “Blackboard Course Management”

Click the course that you are teaching and add your EID as instructor to the course

Should there be any instructor, TA, course builder or “guest student” to add, fill in their EIDs in the respective fields for application

We will notify you when the request is completed via email

URL of e-Portal / Blackboard https://eportal.cityu.edu.hk/ Contact EDO if you have any question, [email protected] or 3442-6727


How to control Blackboard

courses availability to students?

Within the course site, select [Control Panel] and then [Settings]. Select [Course Availability] and set it to [Yes] or [No] to allow access or make course unavailable.

Show me steps in sequence!


Getting Started!

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Course Site Design

For the optimal alignment of the class teaching & the use of technology, the course site design is important. Several essential questions for

What is the role of the course site? How important will it be?

• on a continuum from essential to important to peripheral How will it be integrated with the usual day-to-day learning?

• Essential• Completely web-based • Fully integrated (e.g. peer review system)

• Important to Peripheral• Complementary (e.g. pre-teaching preparation)

• Reinforcing (e.g. virtual laboratory experiments similar to ones in class)

• Supplementary (i.e. additional information for more complete understanding)

• Peripheral only• Warehousing (i.e. storing and distributing lecture/tutorial notes)

Credit to Stephen Richards

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Objectives of the Use of a Course Site

Create a course information and resource centre Assist in-class instruction Encourage student before class preparation Facilitate student presentation and portfolio creation Motivate peer interaction, discussion and cooperation Facilitate communication Encourage research Promote and enhance self study Examine students' mastery of the subject Encourage academic exchange Gain experience in web teaching and learning Collect data and research

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A Blackboard Course Site Course Content

• Learning Management System LMS• Content Collection• Library Resources

Tools• Communications• Groups• Glossary• Shared Portfolios

Assessments• Assignments• Test• Gradebook

Functions• Adaptive Release• Course Statistics• Performance Dashboard• Course Availability

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PortalPages

Collection

Course Content There are mainly two distinctive areas namely, Learning Management

System (LMS) and Content Management System (CMS) for putting up, disseminating and managing course content materials

Learning Management System (LMS)

Content Collection previously named

Content Management System (CMS)

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Course Content in LMS

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Course Content inContent Collection

For a better management & convenience, gather all materials in the CMS and establishes link(s) from & between the course site to CMS. Materials in CMS can be shared among instructors and course builders with version control. They can also be shared among different course sites without the need of duplicating materials and putting up here & there repetitively

Collection

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Putting Up Course Content

You may choose to use LMS or CMS for storing course content In LMS, instructors can

• Attach document files• Type in content direct• Display media files• Add links to other sites• Make link(s) to a file/folder within the course• Design a learning path with learning units

Advantages of storing content in CMS:

• Efficient file uploading with Web Folder/ Web DAV • Content can be linked individually or in a batch to course sites• Content sharable across different course sites • Content administration centralised but also sharable with other

colleagues with version control• Most LMS capabilities preserved

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Library ResourcesIs there any library resource? Yes!

• Simply add “Content System Content”

• browse to locate library resources and course reserves

• Select the folder for your department in the “Subject-based Library Resources” folder under “Library” in the Institution Content area.

• Select “Highlighted Library Resources” and/or corresponding course reserves

• Students can then access these materials from the course site

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Functions for Teaching Communications

• Announcements (1 to many)

• Discussion Board (1 to many, peer, interactive & dynamic; group/ topic based; FAQ)

• Voice Board (1 to many, peer, interactive & dynamic; voice enhanced; FAQ)

• Emails (1 to many by default, subject to instructors’ preferences)

• Voice Emails (1 to many, peer, voice enhanced)

Group works• course members can be grouped according to data in Banner system

• within a course site or (highly suggested)

• into different course sites

• manually by instructors for different learning purposes

• optional group tools to use• discussion board• file exchange

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Functions for Assessment Assignment

• Bb Online Assignment tool combines the benefits of the gradebook with the digital dropbox in one easy-to-use tool that can facilitate paperless homework

Test/Quiz• Bb allows quizzes and exams to be given online. Whether or self-evaluation,

practice or actual course-related assessment, online tests offer a number of advantages for students including instant scoring and feedback. Security features allow exam questions to be randomly selected and ordered, use of passwords and time limits

Course Statistics• Bb has built in course statistics to let you monitor student movement in a course.

Course statistics can let you know when students are logging and where they are looking

Gradebook• A tool for recording and tracking grades is included in Bb. Posting grades in Bb

allows students to see their progress, while protecting the scores of other class members


Jump Start e-Learning! STEP 1 - Putting up course content materials

You can compose simple content direct in the course site upload document files for students and add external links for reference

STEP 2 – Managing Course & Staff Information Course Information & Syllabus Staff Profile

STEP 3 - Adopting course tools Some commonly used course tools,

Announcement Discussion Board

STEP 4 - Enabling students access Though student data is loaded to the course, instructor still has to MAKE AVAILABLE the course site for granting real access to students.

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At the end of the semester

Make unavailable your course site if you want to prevent access immediately

During semester break, all Blackboard course sites will be made unavailable to students automatically

Instructors remain access to the course sites for ongoing modification and development

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Help & Support The Education Development Office supports the work of the Dean of

Student Learning to strengthen the culture of teaching and learning at CityU into one that is student-centred, data-informed and results-focused, supported seamlessly by systems and technology. With a major responsibility in student learning, professional development of staff, as well as e-learning and other IT for education initiatives of the University, the EDO provides the tools and support that accelerate the teaching experience of teachers and the learning experience of students

Contact us• Our website: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/edo• Enquiry email – [email protected]• Phone # (852) 3442 6727

Thank you!

Enjoy your teaching!

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