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LEARN@POLYUAn Learning Management System in PolyU

Blackboard

For InstructorUser Guideline

CONTENTSBlackboard User Guideline for Instructor

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Introduction of Learn@PolyU

Course and enrollment

Teaching materials sharing

Video content editor and sharing by Panopto

Set learning pathAdaptive Release and Achievements

Assignment and assessmentBlackboard Assignemnt, Test and Lockdown Browser

Features for increasing student activitiesDiscussion Board, Group

Communication tools with studentsAnnouncement and Send Email

ITS eLearning support channelIT Help Center holine, HOTS

Learn@PolyUIntroduction

LEARN@PolyU (理學網) is PolyU’s own version of Blackboard, a Learning Management System (LMS) that enables you to provide a user-friendly, engaging and interactive online environment for your students.

This guide has been designed to introduce you to core features in LEARN@PolyU (理學網) so that you will be able to benefit from the advantages of the LMS for your students and yourself. It assumes previous knowledge of Blackboard and online teaching. Common tools found within an LMS are:

CommunicationAnnouncements: Academics may post announcements for students to read. Blackbaord Collaborate: Online chat in real time with teacher and students in a class section.Discussions: This feature allows students and academics to create a discussion thread and reply.Mail: Enables students and teachers to send mail to one another.

ContentCourse content: This feature allows teachers to post articles, assignments, videos etc.Assessments: This allows academics to post quizzes and exams and allows students to access them online.Assignments: This feature allows assignments to be posted and students to submit assignments online.Grade Book: Academics may post grades for students to view.

Start to use Learn@PolyU

1. Go to Learn@PolyU - https://learn.polyu.edu.hk

2. Use PolyU Net ID and Net Password to login

3. Go to your Blackboard Course

Google Chrome / Firefox

*Recommend browser :

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Learn@PolyUCourse and enrollment

Before each semester start, we send a Course Creation Form to each departmental Blackboard Coordinator(s) who are responsible for updating Course information in the form, inculde Course ID* for copying content from another Course, list of instructor/TA enrollment and student Section Component Codes (provided by AS). After the Blackboard Coordinator(s) returned the form to ITS, new Courses will be created on Learn@PolyU.

Subject Code Academic Year(2017 - 2018)

Semester

MM4011 _ 2017 2 _B

What is Course?A subject site in Learn@PolyU.

What is Course ID?Example: MM4011_20172_B

Your Courses list

Procedure of New Coures Creation

You will see your Courses displayed under "My Courses" module and your Role under Course title.

Your Role in the Course

Your logged in account

Course instructor nameCourse ID & Course titleClick to open your Course

Term/Semester

How to add staff account into your course to be TA or instructor role?

1. Login as instructor/TA2. Navigate to Users and Groups under the Control

Panel and click on Users3. Click Find Users to Enroll button on the top left corner4. Click Browse to search users by NetID

(use commas to separate several users)5. Select appropriate role from the drop-down menu6. Click Submit button

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Left menu

Learn@PolyUTeaching materials sharing

Student Preview Mode funcation

Create ContentIn your course, navigate to "Content" page accordingly on left menu, click Build Content button, select a type of your content:

Use Student Preview you can experience your course exactly as your students do. When you are in Student Preview Mode you will see a yellow bar at the top.

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Create Folder (e.g. Chapter 1, 2, 3...)

Upload notes (PDF, PPT, WORD...)

Share website link

Use Content Editor* toformat text, add files, images, links, and addmultimedia contents

Chapter 1

Chapter 2Use Panopto (see page D)

Share YouTube Video

Content Editor

Learn@PolyUVideo content editor andsharing by VCMS/Panopto

You need to provision your Blackboard course into Panopto system first. After provisioning, a course folder will be created in the Panopto system and enrollment information will be synchronized into Panopto system as well. Then, you can start to do the capture or video upload activities to that folder and users within that course can view the video directly after captured/ uploaded. Please see the next page to provision Panopto in your Blackboard course.

About PanoptoPanopto stands for Video Content Mangement System. More information: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/video

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Upload your video/audio

Learn@PolyUVideo content editor andsharing by VCMS/Panopto

How to provision your Blackboard course with VCMS?Step 1. To provision directly from a course, first login as an instructor for the course you'd like to provision.Step 2. On the course page, click "Tools" in the left navigation pane.

Step 4. Click "Panopto Content".Step 5. Click "Configure"Step 6. Click "Add Course to Panopto".Step 7. A message telling you that the course has been successfully provisioned. Click "OK" to finish.Step 8: The selected folders should be the course you choose, click "Submit" to finish.

You can click POLYU Video to upload your video in your Blackboard Course.

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Left menu

Learn@PolyUSet learning path

Adaptive ReleaseInstructors can create a set of rules to control how content is released to students in their courses. The rules may be related to availability, date and time, individual usernames, membership in course groups, review status of another item in the course, and Grade Center items such as scores, attempts, and calculated columns.

For below example: student can open the folder/file after they got less than or equal to 10 score in the quiz.

AchievementsYou can use Blackboard achievements to create opportunities for students to earn reco gnition for their work. You designate criteria for issuing achievements to students in the form of both badges and certificates. Students can see which badges and certificates they have earned and what is required to receive additional recognition. They can gain insight into learning progression toward defined competencies.

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Click User Progress on folder/item menu to doublecheck who can see thefolder/item.

Example

In Content Area

Learn@PolyUAssignment and assessment

Create Blackboard AssignmentAssignments are a form of assessment that adds a column to the Grade Center. Use the Grade Center to assign grades and give feedback to each student.

1. On left menu, navigate to Assessments2. Click Assessments button > Assignment

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Learn@PolyUAssignment and assessment

TestYou can use tests and surveys to measure student knowledge, gauge progress, and gather information from students. You create tests and surveys and then deploy them in a course area. When you add a test or survey to a content area, it is Deployed. You assign points to test questions for grading evaluation, but survey questions are not scored. Survey results are anonymous, but you can see whether a student has completed a survey and view aggregate results for each survey question.

1. On left menu, navigate to a Content Area2. Click Assessments button > Test3. Clcik Test to create / deploy exisiting Test4. Click Create question, question type:

Lockdown BrowserA custom browser that locks down the testing environment within Learn@PolyU. Students are unable to copy, print, access other applications, or visit other websites during an online exam. Welcome to contact IT HelpCenter to know more this tool.

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Learn@PolyUFeatures for increasing

student activities

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Discussion BoardAllows participants to carry on discussions online, at any time of the day or night. Some ways that discus-sion boards are used include: Instructors post questions on a course discussion board, which students respond to before a class session; Instructors have students post their work to a discussion board so other students can see it; students post reading responses to a discussion board.

GroupCourse groups are students own areas to collaborate on coursework. These spaces are equipped with tools to assist in the collaborative process. Your course groups may only meet in their group areas to discuss course content or trade files. But, you might also create assignments that you want students to collaborate on. Students can access all their group assignments on their group homepages.

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Left menu

Learn@PolyUCommunication tools

with students

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AnnouncementAnnouncements are an ideal way to post time-sensitive information critical to course success. Add announcements for these types of course activities: Due dates for assignments and projects; Changes to your syllabus; Corrections/clarifications of materials; Exam schedules.You can add, edit, and delete announcements from the Announcements page. When you add an announcement, you can also send it as an email to students in your course. Students will receive the announcement even if they don't log into your course.

Send EmailE-mail is quite possibly the quickest methodof contacting students, TAs, staff, co-in-structors, or groups of students. Recognizethat you have the option to selectivelychoose those students to whom you wish tosend a message.

Learn@PolyUITS eLearning

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IT HelpCenterCall hotline : 2766-5900 OR submit your request / problem to HOTS : https://www.polyu.edu.hk/hots

Thank you.