Bb PLC

AGENDA
Meeting Date: Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014
Time:

11:30 AM- 12:30 PM

Location:

Webex

Topics: Best Practices, Graded Discussion Boards, DB Rubrics/Links

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III.

Bb current issues
a. Compliance report, discussion board
i. Compliance report showed that the Discussion Board had the least
compliance. Approximately 21% of faculty were not compliant with
regard to the Discussion Board Professional Expectation.
1. Campuses will be discussing/pressing this issue in January at the
Winter quarter kick-off.
ii. Quality was lacking in those who did attempt to use the Discussion Board.
Approximately only 64% of faculty were entirely compliant in regards to
the discussion board.
1. This again will be addressed at the Winter kick-offs.
b. AH- Receiving positive feedback based on results
c. AP- Blackboard help pages, create alternate quick reference
d. Report- How are we reading it across the campuses/system?
e. Resources- Universal web site, Academics & ITSC working together to develop
site. Eventually a tab in Bb.
i. Mandy is going to move the resources document to the Blackboard PLC
Groups folder. If you share out please preface that this is not to be
distributed at large and it is very much in DRAFT phase.
Presentation
a. Topic: Grade Center (Advanced Features)/ Assignment Links
i. Grading a linked assignment
ii. Setting up categories
iii. Setting up letter grades
Relevant examples
a. Setup- Assumptions before-hand: Note that since you have already got going
with your course, you will already have assignments within the Grade Center
b. Why behind the what- Why would you need to setup the grading scale, and why
am I setting the grade center schema this way (highs and lows, midpoint related
to entering letter grade
c. New masters that load, the grading schema are setup

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i. Note in instructor resources for health sciences instructors for them to

select the correct grading scale
ii. Grade scale adjustment is good for instructors teaching with older course
master
iii. How do faculty know if they need to update their grade scale within their
courses?
d. Expose additional resource people to tool prior to providing them with the toolsTrain the Trainer type of situation
Skill building and practice
a. Conclusion (3-5 mins)
b. Next meeting: 12/10/14 @ 11:30 AM

After Discussion:
How do we share this?
Week 5 meetings
Bringing others into the discussion, live WebEx or recorded session
Gold Cords, pushed out to groups
Canned response via email
Link to meeting recording:
Meeting was not recorded, please refer to notes above and hyperlink to video resource
generated by Mark V.