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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! It’s ok to come late or leave early. Bring your work, and your laptop (this is a must). Ask specific questions. Some familiarity with Bb Learn is recommended.
Bb Learn open labs are designed for faculty, staff, and teaching / graduate assistants who have attended training but need some extra help working in their course. Since this is NOT a training, just an open question and answer session, there is no registration needed and you may come and go as you please.
Blackboard Learn: Open Lab
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Monday, April 29 to Friday, May 3
Monday, May 6 to Friday, May 10
1151 Communications Building
Registering for a time(s) on http://isubbhelp.appointy.com merely helps our staff.
Blackboard Learn Service Pack 11 will be installed at ISU May 17, 2013.
Most of the updates included in SP 11 are new features (e.g. a new Global Navigation Menu). There are also some major improvements to current functionality (e.g. a completely redesigned Calendar). These updates will not require any user to do things any differently within their courses, but it is strongly recommended that everybody take a minute for a quick review of the new features.
New Features for Instructors / New Features for Students
NOTE: Blackboard will be unavailable during installation of Service Pack 11, from Thursday, May 16th at 5:00 p.m. – Friday, May 17th at 6:00 a.m.
CELT will be offering numerous workshops on Blackboard Learn, Panopto and more throughout the 2013 Spring semester.
Available Now:
Get up to speed with Blackboard Learn before the start of classes by attending pre-semester workshops beginning January 7, 2013.
Visit the CELT Calendar of Events for registration information and discover more Teaching and Learning events, which will be posted in mid-January.
Instructors may submit Final Grades for Fall semester 2012 from Blackboard Learn beginning Dec. 6 at 8:30 a.m. The deadline to submit grades is 2:15 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 18. For step-by-step instructions, see:
Also, be sure to:
Five Tips for Submitting Final Grades from Blackboard Learn
- You can calculate Final Grades by using Total or Weighted Columns.
- If you want to review or adjust the Grading Schema (e.g., 94% to 100% = A, 90% and less than 94% = A-, etc.) that Bb Learn uses, see Changing Grading Schemas.
- Extra Credit columns work correctly only if you specify 0 Points Possible. See How to Create an Extra Credit Column in the Grade Center. If you use extra credit, it is possible that a Final Grade calculation may result in some students scoring more than 100%. If that happens, it will cause a grade submission error. If that happens, see tip 4.
- Blackboard Learn Grade Center does not allow any manual adjustments of grades in calculated Total or Weighted Columns. If you need to make changes, see Making Adjustments to Individual Grades in Calculated Columns.
- Lastly, you must use ISU AdminTools to submit Final Grades from Bb Learn, but you must first Set the Final Grade Column as External Grade.
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.
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 released the new Blackboard Mobile Learn app, which allows instructors and students to access all of the content and most of the functions and features within Blackboard Learn. The app works:
- on Android and iOS smart phones and tablets
- using any carrier and network
NOTE: This new app, which requires a small fee, replaces a previous version that was free—but had less capability and was not available for all carriers and networks.
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 5pm) during Mid-Terms (October 1-12, 2012) and Dead Week/Finals Week (December 3-14, 2012). An online sign-up registration will be made available in October. Until then, if you have questions or would like a consultation now please contact us via our support form or email.
CELT will be offering numerous workshops on Blackboard Learn, Class Climate Course Evaluation System, Mobile Learning, and more throughout Fall semester.
Available Now:
Get up to speed with Blackboard Learn before the start of classes by attending pre-semester workshops beginning August 1.
And check back once the semester starts for the full schedule of events for Fall 2012.
Visit the CELT Calendar of Events for registration information and discover more Teaching and Learning events, which will be posted in mid-August.
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
Wrapping up the Semester – Bb Learn
Five Tips for Submitting Final Grades from Blackboard Learn
- You can calculate Final Grades by using Total or Weighted Columns.
- If you want to adjust the Grading Schema (e.g., 94% to 100% = A, 90% and less than 94% = A-, etc.) that Bb Learn uses, see Changing the Grading Scale.
- An Extra Credit column works correctly only if you specify 0 points possible. See Adding and Calculating Extra Credit (and note special instructions if you have more than one extra credit column). But if you do use extra credit, it is possible that a Final Grade calculation may result in some students scoring more than 100%. If that happens, it will cause a grade submission error. To correct the problem, see the next tip.
- You can change an individual student’s Final grade, but you can’t do it directly in a calculated Total or Weighted column. See Making Adjustments to Individual Grades.
- Lastly, you must use ISU AdminTools to submit Final Grades from Bb Learn, but you must first Set the Final Grade Column as External Grade.
The target deadline is July 15, 2012 for instructors currently using WebCT to transition to Blackboard Learn. The transition applies to instructors using WebCT as their current Learning Management System or as a platform to store course files. CELT offers the following options to assist instructors with the transition process:
Additional Reminders
- Student access to WebCT as a teaching and learning tool will no longer be available beginning May 8, 2012.
- Instructor access to WebCT will be allowed for transition of content to Blackboard Learn until July 15, 2012. Access to WebCT after the deadline will be considered on a case by case basis (for Instructors only).
- The phase out of WebCT at ISU is necessary because the product will no longer be supported by Blackboard, Inc. Blackboard, Inc. acquired WebCT in 2005 and has committed to incorporating the best features and functionality of WebCT into upcoming updates of the Blackboard Learn platform.
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