eLearning

Bb Learn: Open Lab for instructors & TAs (end of semester)

CELT will be offering open lab support sessions for faculty, staff and teaching/graduate assistants to drop-in and get assistance with their Blackboard 9.1 courses. You may clean up your course, get Blackboard Learn assistance, or just have a dedicated place to work on your course – all while having a CELT staff member on hand! [...]

2013 Spring eLearning Workshop Schedule

CELT will be offering numerous workshops on Blackboard Learn, Panopto and more throughout the 2013 Spring semester.

Available Now:

Check out the eLearning schedule of events and register online

Introduction to Blackboard Learn is now available online
Resources from our Developing a Blackboard Learn course

Get up to speed with Blackboard Learn before the start of classes by attending pre-semester [...]

Universal Design and Accessibility for Online Learning self-enroll stand-alone course

This free Bb Learn course for instructors and content developers explores what accessibility and universal design mean and how they can be applied to online learning. You may preview the course or enroll online. The course was created by Blackboard and customized for use at ISU.

Two new tools to manage Blackboard Learn

Use Blackboard Drive to manage files in your course’s Content Collection

Blackboard Drive can be a huge time-saver. You can:

Access your course’s Content Collection as if it were a drive on your own computer.
Open, edit, and save files directly from the Content Collection in your Bb Learn courses without downloading and uploading.

Blackboard has an app

Blackboard just [...]

Blackboard Learn Open Lab a Success!

Over 80 people stopped by during BbLearn Open Lab. BbLearn Open Lab was available for faculty, staff, and TAs to ask specific questions about Blackboard. CELT (Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching) staff were on hand to address questions individually. BbLearn Open Lab will be available weekdays (Monday – Friday from 8am to [...]

Fall 2012 eLearning Workshops Begin August 1

CELT will be offering numerous workshops on Blackboard Learn, Class Climate Course Evaluation System, Mobile Learning, and more throughout Fall semester.

Available Now:

Check out a partial schedule of events on the eLearning site.
Introduction to Blackboard Learn is now available online
Resources from our Developing a Blackboard Learn course.

Get up to speed with Blackboard Learn before the start [...]

Instructors: Final Grade Submission and Wrapping Up the Semester

Instructors may submit Final Grades for Spring semester 2012 from Blackboard Learn or WebCT beginning April 26, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. The deadline to submit grades is 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, May 8, 2012. For step-by-step instructions, see:

Wrapping up the Semester – WebCT

Backup your Grade Book.
Submit Final Grades from WebCT.
Request Creation of a Copy of your [...]

Recent Bb Learn Updates to Classroom Capture and Message Notification – Plus an Important Reminder

Adding Classroom Recordings to Bb Learn
Blackboard Learn courses can now be directly linked with Panopto, the centrally-supported classrom capture system that allows instructors to record lectures or presentations and make them available to students. To learn more about Panopto and how to easily add classroom recordings to your Bb Learn courses, see Adding [...]

Instructors: Get Your Spring 2012 Semester Started!

The new year has started and a new semester is here! To help you make sure that you are on track to start the semester off right, here are a few Blackboard, WebCT, and Clicker tips.

Remember, this is the last semester that WebCT will be available.

Consider using Blackboard Learn this semester.

All WebCT users, [...]

So, how is Blackboard Learn?

The Nov. 17, 2011 edition of Inside Iowa State proclaims that “Blackboard Learn is much better, thank you.” Diana Pounds reports, “Blackboard Learn got off to a rocky start this semester . . . [but] the good news is the Blackboard system now is running fairly well.”

Iowa State University eLearning: http://www.celt.iastate.edu/elearning