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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

Learning Module


In the following screenshot, the student has clicked into the Learning Module. (S)he is viewing a web page that was created and displayed entirely in Blackboard:

Notice Table of Contents for the Learning Module, on the left-hand side of the previous screenshot. This gives the module a level of organization that was missing from our content page.

Also, notice the student viewing the first item in this learning module. The link for the second item has become available. The links for three items and beyond are greyed out, because they are unavailable. In the Learning Module, you can also force the student to view the material in order. This gives the Learning Module a structure that is missing from a simple Content Page.

In general, if you can add it to a Content Page, you can add it to a Learning Module. The Learning Module gives you another level of organization, a table of contents, and the ability to enforce a viewing order for the material. This makes it a good choice for the course material that must be highly structured and learned in a specific sequence.