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Blackboard 8What is new?

Ir. Willem van Valkenburg

Blackboard Beheer

Overview

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What has changed?

• Grade Center• Self- and Peer Assessment• SafeAssign• Content System enhancements• Discussion Board enhancements• New lay-out

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Grade Center

• New toolbar

• Create reports

• Inline editing

• Grade calculations:

• Average, Minimum/maximum grade, Improved weighted grades

• Smart view: subset of students and grades• A multitude of ways to customize the display

of the Grade Center • History of all changes in grades.

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New toolbar

• Adding columns • Managing Grading Periods • Grading Schema • Smart Views • Emailing Students • Creating Reports • Viewing Grade History

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Reports

• The Instructor can control what grades are displayed in the Report as well as what student information appears. A signature line and any comments can be added. Reports can then be printed from the screen and distributed.

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Grade Calculations

• In the Grade Center, an Instructor can calculate grades by combining multiple Columns to attain performance results, such as class averages, final grades that are based on a weighted scale, or total points, and so on.

• These include Weighted grade, Total points grade, Average grade, and Minimum/Maximum grade.

• Each of these functions allows the Instructor to choose the Columns included, such as all Columns from a Grading Period, all Columns, or selected Columns.

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Smart Views

• Instructors have the ability to customize the Grade Center to display a subset of Students based on selected criteria. Called Smart Views these customized displays can be saved and used again.

• Students can be sorted based on Course, Group, performance measurements, or other criteria.

• Once built and saved, Smart Views become a selectable list item on the Current View drop-down menu of the Grade Center page, enabling easy navigation from one view to another.

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Grading Schema• Administrators and Instructors can create

Grading Schema and then use it in grading.

• Grading Schemas may be edited or added to an ongoing Course and grades will be updated to reflect the changes.

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Self and Peer Assessment

• Greater understanding of grading criteria (Self Assessment)

• Constructive feedback between students (Peer Evaluation)

• Feedback without bias (Optional Anonymous Evals)

• Focus reviewers on specifics (Criteria & Criteria Points)

• Summarise evaluations (Results Report)

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SafeAssign• Plagiaat prevention service.• Assignment is checked against:

• Internet • ProQuest ABI/Inform database with over 1,100

publication titles and about 2.6 million articles• Institutional document archives containing all papers

submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions

• Global Reference Database containing papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism. Over 1 mln papers.

• SafeAssign supports Word (DOC), Plain text (TXT), Rich text format (RTF), PDF, and HTML formats.

• Direct submit: upload a zip with multiple papers.(max 10 MB and 300 papers per zip-file)

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Content System Enhancements• New 360° view allows you to see what’s going on with a

piece of content:• Gain insight into how content is being used and by

whom with tracking data.• Know when to delete old or irrelevant files.

• Recycle Bin• All personal or group Content Area’s now have a

Recycle Bin that serves as a staging area for deleted items.

• Unique ID• Links to the Content System files and folders are no

longer stored as absolute paths. • Content System items may be moved freely within the

application.

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Discussion Board Enhancements

• Mark posts Read when collected. It’s now takes only two clicks to marks every post in a collection as read.

• Quick Collect unread posts in a forum. One click collects every unread post in a forum.

• Return of the tree view.• Tagging of messages.• Forum Availability on date and time

restrictions.

New Design

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Planning

• Blackboard update starting 13th of July 18:00 until Tuesday 15th.

• New courses wil be generated on 1st of August.

• Instructor courses available in the week of 18th to 22nd of August

Recap

• Easy-to-use Grade Center

• Active learning with Self and Peer Assessment

• Protect originality with SafeAssign

• Institution-wide Content Management

• Academic debate with the Discussion Board

• Blackboard not available 13th to 15th of July

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Questions

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