Use of the Adaptive Release tool of the Blackboard

Evgenii Prosolupov

e.prosolupov@spbu.ru

Agenda

1. Introduction

2. Adaptive Release

3. GTP and AR

4. Adaptive Release Advanced

5. Special Situations

6. Problem solving

7. Conclusion

Expectations

• What are your expectations?

• Important moments?

• Your practical problems?

When Access Restrictions can be helpful

• Date and Time in future

• Limited period of availability

• Individual Assignments

• Show material if some test passed

Add/Edit element of content

Adaptive Release additional capabilities

• Give access for a list of students or groups of students

• Set conditions on student’s grades

• Check student’s revision of other content

• Combine some criteria

Example of situation

• March 11 - Live Assessment

• If the score > 60, can see Next Module

• If the score < 60, need to pass Online Test

• If the Online Test score > 60, can see Next Module also.

Sequence of testing

Schema of criteria

Adaptive Release

The practice of using the tool

Road to a content

Contextual menu option

Date criterion

• After a date

• Until a date

• Within a timeframe

Date criterion

Membership criterion

• Membership in groups

• List of usernames

Membership criterion

Grade Center criterion

• Score is grater then

• Score is less then

• Score is equal to

• Score is between two values

• Execution attempt

Grade Center criterion

Review Status criterion

• If a review status for the student is set

Review Status criterion

Adaptive Release page

• One condition for every criterion

• Can see the content if all met

Using handouts

Task Element Rule Description

1 An Item Show until 9:30 12/03

If Test A grade > 70

Test B Only for Group A

and if An Item

is reviewed

Solving problems

Adaptive Release

Chickering and Gamson’s Good Teaching Practices

Good teaching...

1. encourages contact between students and faculty,

2. develops reciprocity and cooperation among students,

3. encourages active learning,

4. gives prompt feedback,

5. emphasizes time on task,

6. communicates high expectations, and

7. respects diverse talents and ways of learning.

Good Practice Uses Active Learning Techniques

Interaction with learning system

• Grade center criteria

• Review status criteria

Good Practice Gives Prompt Feedback

Grade Center criteria

• Give additional help

• Open access to further information

Good Practice Emphasizes Time on Task

• Date/Time criteria

• Become disciplined

Good Practice Respects Diverse Talents

and Ways of Learning

• Individual assignments

• Different content for different groups

Adaptive Release: Advanced

Multiple roads to a content

• Can see the content if any of rules met

ARA contextual menu option

Adaptive Release: Advanced page

Manage Criteria page

Advanced Adaptive Release• One Date criterion and one Membership

criterion per rule

• Multiple Grade and Review Status criteria

Solving problems

Adaptive Release: Advanced

Special situations

What you need to remember when using Adaptive Release

Empty Rule

Empty Rule

Restrictions priority

• Availability/Visibility of the element

• or Adaptive Release rules?

Two Date conditions

• A way to set two Date restrictions?

Two Date error message

Groups intersection

• in Group A and in Group B

No negation of criterion

• To hide A if B is Reviewed?

Cyclic conditions

• Test 1 is available if Test 1 is passed

Copy, Archive and Export

Rules and User Progress included during

• Full course copy

• Archive / Restore

Not included during

• Copy of course materials

• Export / Import

Solving Problems

Complicated problems

&

Additional situations

Conclusion

• Adaptive Release purpose

• Capabilities

• Good Teaching Practices

• Limitations

• Exercises

Any questions?

• http://help.blackboard.com

• e.prosolupov@spbu.ru

• Ask now!