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Blackboard Essentials for Teachers

By : William Rice
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Blackboard Essentials for Teachers

By: William Rice

Overview of this book

Blackboard is the world's most popular commercial learning management system. With Blackboard you can construct and deliver professional quality elearning courses with ease. Its many features, which allow you to manage courses, grading and assessments, and social collaboration, are the standard against which other learning management systems are measured. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers shows you how to use Blackboard's most essential features by guiding you through the development of a demonstration course, built on Blackboard's free site for teachers, coursesites.com. You will also learn more about Blackboard's most important features, such as the gradebook, using clear instructions to guide you every step of the way. By following an example course, this book will guide you, step-by-step, through creating your own Blackboard course. Start by adding static material for students to view, such as pages, links, and media. Then, add interaction to your courses, with discussion boards, blogs, and wikis. Most importantly, engage your students in your course by communicating with them, assessing them, and putting them into groups. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers will enable you to take your elearning course from inception, to construction, to delivery.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Blackboard Essentials for Teachers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Adding a Blank Page tool, which can hold any content or links that you want


The Blank Page tool enables you to create a Blank Page. You can add a Blank Page to your course, or to the Content Area. When you add a Blank Page to your course, a link to the page is added to the Course Menu. When you add a Blank Page to the Content Area, a link to the page is added to the Content Area.

What is a Blank Page?

In Blackboard, a Blank Page is a simple web page. You can add text, graphics, and HTML code to the page. You can also attach an item to the page.

When you want to add a page of information, and you want that information to stand by itself, a Blank Page is a good solution. Let's look at some situations where you might consider using a Blank Page.

For one of the topics, your class is taking a field trip. Under that topic's Content Area, you might add a Blank Page. On this Blank Page, you can add information about the trip, and embed a Google map.

The class has a strict code of conduct and standards...