Making the move to Bb9.1 in SAHC

Catherine BoothAssistant eLearning Manager

Faculty of Humanities eLearning team

YOUR SCHOOL PILOTSWho is already using Bb9 to support students?

Pilot Phases 1 and 2

Phase 1• CLAH10011 Constructing Archaic Greek History

800-478 BC (Polly Low)

Phase 2• CLAH20042/30042 Greek Mythology (Emma Griffiths)

• CLAH21262/31262 The Poetry of Ovid (Alison Sharrock)

• DRAM20022 Transnational Chinese Cinemas (Felicia Chan)

• HIST20182 European Intellectual History: Rousseau to Freud (Stuart Jones)

• Plus: [organisation – in development]Joint Honours space between AHC and SLLC

Bb9 SUMMARYWhat are the improvements to Bb9?

Bb9 Summary

• Improved interface

• Enhanced File Management

• Media rich content and assessments

• Improved student performance monitoring

• Email direct to students

• MLE Developments

Improved interface

• No tabs - just Edit On/Off

• More control over the course menu

• Using items to build up content

• Drag and drop items around

• Set your own home page/entry point

• Standard Course Structure

Enhanced File Management

• Drag and drop files

• Organise on computer, then upload as a batch

• Structure remains the same

• Display files as required

Web 2.0 content

• Mash up tool

• Adding external content

• YouTube, SlideShare, Flickr

• Wiki

• Simplified Blackboard Wiki

• Easier to use

• Gradeable

Assessing Learners

• New question types in tests

• YouTube

• Calculated formula

• Opinion scale/Likert

• HotSpot

• Quiz Bowl

• Wikis now gradeable

Monitor student performance

• Grade Centre

• Smart views

• Tailored view of student progress, e.g. students who scored less than 60 on Week 1 quiz

• Performance Dashboard

• Notifications/early warning/tracking

• Base on Grade Rules

MLE Developments

• Blackboard Mobile Learn

• Sharing content across the University

• Community

• Provide personalised and targeted information to students integrated with the current portal

• Enables groups to collaborate and communicate using Bb9.1

STANDARD COURSE STRUCTURE

Help for you, consistency for students, meeting the minimum requirements

Why a Standard Course Structure

• Makes it easier to start developing

• Consistency for students: feedback has been that different navigations and different terms are confusing

• Support for staff in meeting minimum requirements

• Additional resources for both staff and students

• Schools can build on this Faculty SCS to add content useful to Schools

UoM IMPLEMENTATION OF Bb9

The Portal and the ‘Playground’

Rationale

• Why have we upgraded?

• Product development by supplier

• eLearning Strategy Goal 2 advancing Manchester 2015 Agenda

• Ongoing investment in eLearning high priority

• Beyond Bb9 – considers whole MLE framework

• Open up ways to manage and share academic content

Portal: staff

• The Staff Portal is the entrance way into Bb9

• Access it from www.manchester.ac.uk/portal

• Click ‘Teaching and Research’ tab

• In the ‘My Courses’ portlet, you will see all your courses: Blackboard Vista 8 and/or Bb9: Current, Future and Ended Courses

Little person icon= Blackboard Vista 8 course

Bb9 icon = Bb9 course

(Option to add ‘My Organisations’ portlet)

• Students access the portal in the same way

• The main difference is that they have a ‘My Studies’ tab (in place of the staff ‘Teaching and Research’ tab)

Portal: students

‘Organisations’ or ‘Communities’

• Provides more flexibility in using the online environment to support students

• Definitely for 2011:

• Programme level spaces

• Delivery date tbc:

• Other academic Communities

Activate your ‘Playground’

• Playground is for testing, NOT for course development

• Please activate it today - but we will use it to support the Practical Workshops so don’t play too much!

• Just click Activate Playground - you will be asked for a name/title, e.g. Cath’s Test Area, then click Activate

Search the Knowledge Base for resources

Lots of Help Articles available on the Knowledge Base 1. Go to www.manchester.ac.uk/servicedesk 2. Click Knowledge base 3. Type Bb9 and then Search

HOW TO MAKE THE TRANSITION

Support for the School in Making the Move to Bb9?

Transition overview

• Aim: Ensure student experience not affected

• All Schools have timeslots between now and July to move content, re-using from Blackboard Vista 8 to Bb9

• eLearning team will provide a range of support, presentations, workshops, drop-ins

• Academics rebuild courses in Bb9 with content from their computers or content downloaded from BbV8

• Other activities working with Schools to: • Develop SCS• Identify courses that might need extra help

Support for your School

• Individual School Plans are online at: www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/bb9/

• SAHC timetable: AHC timetable.pdf (Note: this is a snapshot of the online plan, correct as 17/02/2011; please follow the online link to check for updates)

What now?

• Playground via Portal

• Get to know Bb9 using the Playground and online support

• Wait until your transition date and we will send an email directing you to the Transition Wizard

• Activate your courses for Bb9

• Using support online and face to face re-build/ move content

Finding out more generally

• Blackboard On-Demand Learning Centre:• http://ondemand.blackboard.com

• Knowledge Base articles:• http://www.manchester.ac.uk/servicedesk

• Screen cast of a presentation delivered by Blackboard in June:• http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/elearning/resources/

mle_webinars.html

• MLE Highlights: information about Blackboard 9.1 and the MLE Project, including more information about Mobile Learn and Mobile Central• http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/tlso/newsbulletins/mle/

Questions?