Blackboard essentials for teachers : build and deliver great courses using this popular learning management system / William Rice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rice, William.

Series:

Community experience distilled.

Community experience distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Blackboard systems (Computer programs).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Rice William: William Rice is an e-learning professional from New York City. He has written books on Moodle, Blackboard, Magento, and software training. He enjoys building e-learning solutions for businesses and gains professional satisfaction when his courses help students. His hobbies include writing books, practicing archery near JFK Airport, and playing with his children. He is fascinated by the relationship between technology and society, how we create our tools, and how they shape us in turn. Married to an incredible woman who encourages his writing pursuits, he has two amazing sons.

Summary:

Build and deliver great courses using this popular Learning Management System

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Blackboard Experience; Home page; Announcements; Discussion Board; Gradebook; Content Page; Learning Module; Blog; Forum; Uploaded files; Video; Wiki; Assignment; Test; Groups; Summary; Chapter 2: Organizing a Course with Pages and Learning Modules; Adding Content Areas to hold and organize course content; What is Content Area?; How to add a Content Area; What's next?; Adding a Blank Page tool, which can hold any content or links that you want; What is a Blank Page?

How to add a Blank PageAdding a Blank Page to your course; Adding a Blank Page to the Content Area; What's next?; Composing a page with the HTML editor; What's next?; Creating a sequential path for the student to work through, using a Learning Module; When to use a learning path; How to add a learning path; Adding a Learning Module to a Content Area; What's next?; About the Availability and View settings; Keeping students informed with Course Tools; What are Course Tools?; How to add Course Tools; Adding a Course Tool to the Course Menu; Adding a Course Tool to the home page; Summary

Chapter 3: Adding Static Material to a CourseAdding a file for students to download; File versus item; Content Collections; How to add a file; Adding an item; What's next?; Adding a video to your course; Uploading a video in your course; Linking to a video that is on another site; Embedding a video on a Blank Page; Embedding a video that is hosted on another site; What's next?; Adding a web link to your course; Adding a link to an external website; Adding a link to a Course Asset; Adding an image to your course; Adding an image to a Content Area; Summary; Chapter 4: Discussion Boards

About Discussion BoardsCreating forums with Discussion Board; Making Discussion Board available to students; Adding a link to Discussion Board on the Course Menu; Creating a link to a forum; Managing a forum; Collecting posts in a forum; Grading posts in a forum; Summary; Chapter 5: Blogs and Wikis; About blogs; Individual versus class blogs; Blogs Course Tool link; Creating a blog; Making blogs available to students; Adding a link to the Blogs page; Creating a link to a blog; Managing a blog; Grading blogs; Deleting and editing entries and comments; About wikis; Creating a wiki

Adding a link to the Wikis pageSummary; Chapter 6: Assignments; About assignments; Adding an assignment; Responding to an assignment; Summary; Chapter 7: Testing Students; Creating a test; Creating a blank test; Determining the behavior of questions by using Question Settings; Adding and creating questions on Test Canvas; Adding the test to a page in your course; Setting the Test Options page; Creating questions; Navigating to the Test Canvas page; Enter the type, title, and question text; Adding answers and answer feedback; Adding categories, keywords, and notes; Other types of questions

Calculated formula questions

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9786613832214

9781283519762

1283519763

9781849692939

1849692939

OCLC:

823244965