Blackboard

Integrating Technology into your University Coursework

Carla Piper, Ed. D.

How to Begin!
Go to Chapman Website http://my.chapman.edu Contact Kevin Silva (silva@chapman.edu) or call 714-997-6868 Provide the following information:
Your faculty name and ID# Course name and course number Term and campus information

Course roster can be populated from Datatel Chapman Help

Blackboard Help http://www.chapman.edu/academics/online/help.asp

Blackboard 6 Help http://www.chapman.edu/computing/helpdesk/bb6login.asp

Blackboard Help Desk: 714-997-6600

Locating Your Course

My Announcements My Calendar My Courses My Organizations

Empty Course Shell

Great Starting Places

Announcements Course Information
Syllabus Course Outline Glossary

Course Documents
Organize Course Handouts Weekly Folders Quizzes (Later!)

Discussion
Weekly Topics

Control Panel
Where the real work is done! Students do not have the control panel only the instructor author Author controls settings of all course components

Click Here for Control!

Control Panel

Control Panel Options

Course setup is done in Content Areas and Course Tools Go to Course Options and click on Settings to select colors/buttons/style, etc. Add Assessment options later!

Announcements
Great way to post topics and assignments due for the week! Add a topic and type your message. You can get fancy with fonts, styles, colors, alignments, etc.
Submit!

Editing

Course Information
Cuts down on printing! Instructor can post all documents and students can print on their own or just read online.

Adding Course Documents

Course Documents

Creating Folders

More Course Documents

Adding Discussion Forums

Discussion Prompts

Threaded Discussion Prompt

Base topics on reading assignments Review professional websites, research, resources Use for case studies!

Student Responses

Student Example

More Tools

External Link

Dropbox

Example of Dropbox

Customize Layout

Customize Style

Creating a Gradebook

Gradebook Spreadsheet

Quizzes

Multiple Choice

Assignments

Web-Compatible File Formats

Image formats .gif or Graphical Interchange Format is a commonly used graphics file format for image filing on the Internet. .jpg or .jpeg - abbreviation for Joint Photographic Experts Group - standard for compressing still images Typical video and audio formats: Quicktime mov. - Quicktime Movie from the Apple for video and audio mov., qt, .aif, .aifc, .aiff, . Windows Media Formats - .wav, .avi, .asf, .asx, .rmi,, .wma, .wax Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) - .mid, .rmi Real Audio or video - .ra, .ram, .rmm, .mp3, plus other file formats MPEG - Moving Picture Experts Group - currently gaining in popularity due to smaller file size without losing quality (mpg, .mpeg, .m1v, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .mpe) UNIX formats - .au, .snd MP3 Files - .mp3

Tutorials for Photo Editing

Irfanview http://eport.soundpiper.com/pictutor/irfanview.ht ml

Kodak http://eport.soundpiper.com/pictutor/kodak.html

Microsoft Paint http://eport.soundpiper.com/pictutor/paint.html

Photoshop http://eport.soundpiper.com/pictutor/photoshop. html

Finepix http://eport.soundpiper.com/pictutor/finepix.html