Blackboard 9 Training for Faculty

Part 3 – Quality Design and Customize Your Blackboard Course

Quality Design

An important component of quality designed courses are dynamic learning tools that enhance student engagement and accountability. 

These essential design approaches apply to web-enhanced, hybrid and online courses.

Two of these tools are SafeAssign™  and Respondus Lockdown Browser. 

They will be explained further in the following slides along with other interactive tools that are available in Blackboard 9.

Safe AssignWhat is SafeAssign™?

SafeAssign™ is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard to its Blackboard Learning System Enterprise, Vista Enterprise and CE Enterprise clients. 

SafeAssign ™ is available for Blackboard enterprise clients at no additional cost.

This service helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers.  In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and the importance of proper attribution of any borrowed content.  

Safe Assign (cont’d) From the Add Interactive Tool contextual menu, click on the chevron and

select Safe Assignment.

Fill in the name of the assignment, grade points, etc. The assignment appears with the Safe Assignment icon.

Instructors can view or upload papers through the Safe Assign Course Tool in

the Control Panel.

Respondus Lockdown BrowserRespondus, used by over 3,000 institutions worldwide, is a

powerful tool for creating and managing assessments.

Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom browser that locks down the testing environment in online courses. There is no better way to deter cheating by students and to increase instructor confidence in online testing.

Respondus Lockdown Browser (cont’d) Select Respondus Lockdown Browser from the

Tools menu. Enable Respondus in your test by clicking on Modify

Settings:

After modifying the settings, Respondus is enabled in the test.

Interactive ToolsBlackboard 9 offers a variety of interactive tools to choose

from to enhance your course.

Click on the chevron next to “Add Interactive Tool” to make your selection.

DISCUSSION BOARD

The discussion Board creates a streamlined experience where users interact with each other in the same area where they discover content. A link can connect to an existing forum or a new forum can be created and linked.

Forums are made up of individual discussion threads that can be organized around a particular subject.

Interactive Tools (cont’d)BLOG

A Blog is a collaborative tool that allows Students to post their personal reflection about the Course or discuss and analyze Course related materials.  

JOURNAL

A Journal is a self-reflective tool that allows students to post their personal reflections about the Course or discuss and analyze Course related materials.

WIKI

Wikis are used to create a collaborative space within the Course where all students can view, contribute, and edit content. Wikis can also be used as a resource for students to view information and content relevant to their Courses.

MashupsBlackboard 9 allows you to add a variety of mashups to

your course.

Flickr Photo SlideShare Presentation YouTube Video NBC Content

These tools are accessible when you select the Build Content contextual menu.

A mashup is a digital media file containing any or all of text, graphics, audio, video, and animation, which recombines and modifies existing digital works to create a derivative work.

NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News offers a vast archive of educational resources to instructors and students through videos on demand as well as hundreds of other types of digital content. This resource will give your students an in-depth look at historic events and issues as they were reported by NBC. Current events are also included.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev3JYGMRut4

How to Add NBC Content in Blackboard 9

The following video will show you how to add this import content to your Blackboard 9 course.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffwTdOIXk34

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