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Winter 2018
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Blackboard Grade Center is a Tool for
Providing Feedback to Students On Friday November 17th approximately 100 instructors attended the Blackboard Grade Center workshop hosted by Project GRAD, ODELT, and PASS. The promotional event featured five students who stressed the importance of entering grades in the Blackboard Grade Center throughout the term so that they can know how they are doing in their courses. In addition, five faculty members shared their use of the Grade Center and highlighted its value for helping students know how they are doing on their assignments. The Grade Center serves as a straight-forward way to provide students with feedback. ODELT provided a workshop on Grade Center basics and invited instructors to let us help them use Grade Center functions that work best for them.
Blackboard provides a rich environment for giving constructive, complex feedback including comments within a submission, points earned and levels of achievement in rubrics, and text-based feedback. You can also download student submissions, add your corrections, and attach them to comments.
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Community of Practice: Learning Technologies for Student Feedback
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New Box View completely replaced the Crocodoc (previous comments tool) in your course. Instructors will not be able to edit or remove existing Crocodoc annotations in New Box View as the annotations will be “burned” into a PDF during migration. The transition will not impact your course's rubrics or rubric data.
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Example of Instructor Feedback for Bb Assignments
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1. Single Sign-On. Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi uses Sin-gle Sign-On to login to many soft-
ware systems such as MS Outlook, Blackboard, WebEx, Qualtrics, Ban-ner, System SSO, office desktops, podiums, and labs. Use your user ID and password to login to all those systems. Be aware that once you login to any classroom, lab, or desktop comput-er you will remain logged in to all the above systems. 2. Fall 2017 Bb courses. Login to Blackboard to see if all your courses for Spring 2018 semester are listed.
If they aren’t, make sure you are listed as the instructor of record in S.A.I.L. If you are not listed in S.A.I.L., check with your college to make sure the Registrar's office has processed all the paper work in Ban-ner, because until the paperwork is processed you will not be able to ac-cess your Blackboard course. 3. Copy Bb courses. Your Black-board courses contain the university template. You can copy your course
content from the previous semester using the Course Copy tutorial. https://iol.tamucc.edu/assets/documents/Copy%20an%20Existing%20Bb%20Course.pdf or create new content. - Use Student Preview to view your
course as a student. The link is an icon with 2 curved arrows located at the upper right corner of the Bb screen. - Use Date Management tool in the Control panel – Course tools to re-view and adjust all dates for the Fall semester. - Use Blackboard to send your stu-dents a welcome announcement and syllabus so that they can pre-pare for the semester. Let them know when they can access your online courses.
4. (Optional). If you want to make the course available prior to the start date, follow the tutorial: https://iol.tamucc.edu/assets/Set%20Course%20Availability%20Dates.pdf. By default, blackboard courses are scheduled to become available to students on the first day of class. 5. Request courses or sections to be merged using this procedure http://it.tamucc.edu/gethelp/pdf/blackboardmerge.pdf at least two weeks before the semester starts. Allow 48 hours for your request to be processed. Note: Courses and Labs cannot be merged. 6. To add a TA to your course, fill out and submit this form: http://it.tamucc.edu/gethelp/pdf/Add%20Role%20Request%20Form.pdf.
7. Familiarize yourself with the au-dio/visual equipment in the class-rooms. Media Services is available for tutorials and training on the use of classroom audio/visual technolo-gy. To schedule a training session, please submit a request to [email protected]. Please note that audio visual equipment has been updated in the Center for In-struction, Bay Hall, and Island Hall. 8. Free MS Office 365. Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi is provid-ing Microsoft Office to every stu-dent, faculty, and staff free of charge. Advise your stu-dents to download it from http://it.tamucc.edu/Office365/Office365.html Additional Resources: - Visit the ODELT website (https://iol.tamucc.edu/) to find information on Blackboard resources, tutorials, certificates, award opportunities, and help from the Office of Distance Education and Learning Technolo-gies. Visit the IT website (http://it.tamucc.edu/) for help desk hours of operation, telephone numbers, and email addresses to facilitate IT requests or issues. For Ad Hoc com-puter lab reservations or to see what software is installed in the labs, etc., visit http://it.tamucc.edu/computerlabs/index.html.
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Pre-semester Checklist
Removal of 2015 Courses from Blackboard. In accordance with records retention requirements, IT will
delete Blackboard courses that were delivered in 2015. The deletion will take place January, 2018. Instructors
who wish to retain their content can copy courses into their development shells or archive (zip) their courses.
A tutorial for copying and archiving a course is available at: https://iol.tamucc.edu/assets/documents/Backing-up%20course%
20content1.pdf. For assistance contact the IT Help Desk at 825-2692.
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Inline Grading in Student Submissions Updates
Blackboard was recently updated to
Software as a Service (SaaS). The
update required that Bb be
unavailable from January 2-5, 2018.
The update will eliminate downtime
and enhance user experience. It
includes several new features and
enhancements and a slight
change in the look and feel
of the user interface. For full
information on changes go
to https://help.blackboard.com/
Learn/Administrator/Hosting/
Release_Notes/Whats_New
The inline grading of Bb Assignments transitioned from the current Crocodoc (current comment tool) to New Box View. The New Box View will support annotations on these file formats: PDF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, PPT, PPTX, ODP. It will work with over 100 different file types, including video, audio, image, and programming code. After the transition, users can’t change the existing annotations made in Crocodoc as all annotations are read-only in New Box View. Users can add new annotations with the New Box View annotation tools, but they can't interact with annotations created in Crocodoc. The grades have to be posted before students can view annotations. You can add or edit New Box View annotations after a grade is assigned.
Bb Learn Update Overview
Bb Learn Updated Apps Now Available
Blackboard has updated their apps and is no longer providing support for the previous versions. The new versions and links are listed below:
Blackboard App - replaces the Bb Student app. Students can find more information and links to
download the app at: https://help.blackboard.com/Blackboard_App/Student/Quick_Start
Blackboard Instructor App replaces the older “Blackboard Mobile.” Instructors can find more
information and links to down load the app at: https://help.blackboard.com/Blackboard_App/Instructor/Quick_Start
Bb Grader App is used to grade assignments. Instructors can find more information and links at:
http://www.blackboard.com/mobile-learning/bbgrader.html
Reports on Students’ Activities in Your Bb Course
Four dynamic reports describing phenomena in your class are available in Course Management ->Evaluations->Course Analytics:
1. Course at a Glance: This report can help analyze how a course is designed, how a course compares to other course sections in the same department, and how the students are using the course.
2. Activity and Grade Scatter Plot: This report will create a scatterplot comparing the grade earned in a course with student interactions in the given course. It can help analyze how different student interactions do or don’t relate to the grades.
3. Activity Matrix: This report displays grade center and activity data to help analyze activity and grade patterns in a course, and help find students with different usage and performance profiles.
4. Course Submission Summary: This report identifies the last time students submitted to the course and the type of submission. It displays trends and numbers of submissions compared to the average across all students in that course.
Research Report. Every year the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) https://
onlinelearningconsortium.org/ creates a report of tracking online education in the
US. Their key findings reported in 2017 are: 1) A year-to-year increase of 226,375
distance education students represents a 3.9% increase over the previous two
years. 2) More than one in four students (29.7%) now take at least one distance
education course (a total of 6,022,105 students). 3) Public institutions command
the largest portion of distance education students, with 67.8% of all distance
students. 4) The number of students studying on a campus has dropped by almost
one million (931,317), between 2012 and 2015.
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Flexible Certificate Workshop Options Respond to Faculty Needs
Meet Shivaji Kumar— TAMUCC EIRAC
The TAMU-CC Student Information
System, Banner, is being upgraded
to comply with new technological
standards. The upgrade includes a
modern user interface, enhanced
navigation along with process
management tools, and new
functionality across the student
platform. It will also allow us to run
Banner on any browser and on
mobile devices. There is no need to
learn a new application, just the
new interface. The upgrade will be
completed in 3 major phases:
Phase I - The upgrade of the Banner
administrative pages was done on
November 18, 2017 and allows users
the opportunity, for a limited time,
to use either Banner 8 or Banner 9
navigation to access available
student information.
Phase II - the upgrade of the
Registration Model is expected to
occur around mid-March 2018.
Phase III - the upgrade of S.A.I.L./
Self-Service is expected to take
place during Summer 2018.
The Division of Information
Technology will host drop-in
sessions at the library on January
9th and 11th for Faculty and Staff
to log in and view the Banner 9
Admin Pages and to ask questions.
For more information check out our
website:
http://bannerupgrade.tamucc.edu
ODELT’s Online Course Design, Development, and Teaching Certificates program is offered to support instructors as they integrate technologies into their courses to improve instruction and provide students with highly engaging learning experiences. Flexible scheduling allows instructors to earn their certificates in a number of ways. They do not have to commit to receiving the workshops in just one of the ways below. Rather they can flexibly combine the offerings in any way to ultimately receive credit for the entire program. 1. Face-to-face workshop series
offered several times per year. 2. `A la carte workshops offered
across both the Fall and Spring semesters.
3. An intensive online course available each Fall semester (3-credit hour equivalent).
4. On demand for a big enough group.
We welcome instructors in any single workshop at any time. The next offerings are across the 2018 semester. Schedules and registration are available on https://iol.tamucc.edu.
Please welcome Shivaji
Kumar who has joined
the island university as
the Electronic/
Information Resources
Accessibility
Coordinator (EIRAC). In
this role, he will ensure
that the University is properly serving
students with disabilities. Shivaji has the
experience of website and document
accessibility testing in accordance with
Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
(2.0). He has conducted manual and
automated accessibility evaluations of
Desire2Learn’s learning management
system and Ebsco data bases. MSWord,
PDF, and Power-Point as well as website
accessibility with keystroke level testing
and HTML and CSS remediation have
been of particular interest to him. He has
developed and delivered training for
instructors and web developers. Shivaji
has tested for CPACC (Certificate in
Professional of Accessibility Core
Competencies) and has acquired a
certificate from Deque Systems in
accessibility management. He has
advised offices of disabilities services
and mentored students with disabilities
for college readiness. He has been a
faculty member at home and abroad and
instructed courses consistent with
universal design learning principles.
Shivaji received his Ph.D from Ohio
State University.
Banner Upgrade Delivers Important Enhancements
Identity Management Tool Streamlines Islander Account Processing and Maintenance The TAMUCC IT Department is continuing to implement the identity management initiative with Phase II coming Spring 2018. It will include Islander account processing with all the aspects of account maintenance, the claiming of the Islander Account, updating Account Recovery information, and Password resets. The improved features will provide an automated means for Islander ID account upkeep. Subsequent updates will include the automation of Account Access requests from manual paper copy to system supported requests and approval processing. Stay tuned for more information on how TAMUCC IT is working to provide information resources and data security to keep pace with changing technology and university growth.
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Day/Date Time Location
Tuesday, January 16th 5:30-7:00 pm Corpus Christi Hall, rm. 123
Wednesday, January 17th 5:30-7:00 pm 7:00-8:30 pm
Corpus Christi Hall, rm. 123
Wednesday, January 24th 5:30-7:00 pm Corpus Christi Hall, rm. 123
Blackboard and IT Resources Workshops for Students
We invite your students to the Bb and IT resources hands-on workshops that are held at the beginning of each semester and are open for all students on a walk-in as needed basis. Each 90-minute workshop provides an overview of Blackboard navigation and hands-on activities for learning tools such as the discussion forum, wikis, blogs, journals, and quizzes. Please, advise your students to attend if they need more hands-on learning. Workshops are also available online using WebEx web conferencing software. Contact us at 361-825-2122 to make a reservation to attend a workshop in a web conference.
