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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
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Preface

Assigning and entering grades


Now that you can find the items you want in Grade Center, it's time to give them grades. In general, there are two ways to give an item a grade. You can open the item, which will take you deeper into Grade Center where you will view just the item that you are grading. You would do this if you needed to examine the item before giving a grade. Or, you can enter a grade right into Grade Center. You would do this if you already knew the grade that you wanted to give.

Screen Reader Mode

In the following screenshot, Grade Center is in Screen Reader Mode. In this mode, you cannot enter grades directly into Grade Center. This is a fast way to locate items that you know need to be graded, and enter grades for them. You must select the item and select View Grade Details for that item, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Grade Details page looks slightly different for each kind of activity. However, its features and functions are consistent. In this example we will...