Overview

• Getting Started with BB CE 6

• Add Course Content

• Communication and Collaboration Tools

• Assignment and Assessments

Focus on

• Homepage• Syllabus• Learning Module• Discussions• Assignment• Assessment• Weblink• Grade Book

Part 1: Getting Started with BB

• What is Blackboard? (Example)

• WebCT name to change

• Login website

• How to migrate my WebCT course to BB?

• How to copy my previous BB course to new course?

• Browser Check

Part 1: Getting Started with BB

• Explain the interface of Blackboard CE 6

• Navigate through Blackboard CE 6

• Define the three Taps: Build/Teach/Students View

• Add/Remove tools to “Course Menu”

• Customize “Course Content Homepage”

• Create “Course Content Homepage”

What is Blackboard?

• Blackboard is software that allows educational institutions to create and host

courses on the Internet. Courses created with Blackboard software can serve

as entire online courses (fully online) or as a supplement to traditional classroom

courses (hybrid or web-enhanced)

• You can use Blackboard to design and organize materials similar to those

used in classroom courses, such as lessons, reading lists, learning

objectives, assessments, and assignments.

Blackboard CE 6 Login Website

http://bb.pdx.edu

Pop-up Blocker Check

Allow popups for this site

Blackboard Browser Check

Correct functioning of the system depends on specific browser settings.

Blackboard Browser Check

How to migrate my WebCT course to BB CE 6?

• Go to: http://psuonline.pdx.edu/

WebCT CE 6/Blackboard CE 6

• Blackboard, Inc. purchased WebCT in Fall 2005.

• In Fall of 2006, Blackboard re-branded all of the WebCT products as Blackboard Learning System.

• WebCT CE 6 was renamed Blackboard CE 6• Blackboard CE 6 is the new learning

management system at PSU

How to migrate my WebCT course to BB CE 6?

How to copy my previous BB course to new course?

Part 2: Add Course Content

• Upload single and multiple files

• Create learning modules

• Use File Manager

• Zip and unzip files

Part 3: Communication and Collaboration

• Add syllabus

• Create announcements

• Set up a calendar

• E-mail in Blackboard

• Identify Roster

Three formats of adding files

• Word Document

• PDF

• HTML

Add syllabus/files as html• How to create html page

– Using word save as webpage, webpage filter– Using Dreamweaver/Frontpage to create html page– Using html creator in Blackboard

• Pros: – Open in the Blackboard window– Convenient to update

• Cons:– save word doc as webpage causing problems– save word doc as webpage filter solving some problems,

but not guarantee– Using Dreamweaver solve the problem, but expensive for

the license

Add syllabus/files as html

Add syllabus/files as word