Making the move to Bb9 in SAHC

1. Making the move to Bb9 in SAHC Linda Irish Catherine Booth Assistant eLearning Managers Faculty of Humanities eLearning team

2. Who is already using Bb9 to support students? Your School pilots

3. 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

4. What are the improvements to Bb9? Bb9 Summary

5. Bb9 Summary • Improved interface • Enhanced File Management • Media rich content and assessments • Improved student performance monitoring • Email direct to students • MLE Developments

6. 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

7. Enhanced File Management • Drag and drop files • Organise on computer, then upload as a batch • Structure remains the same • Display files as required

8. Web 2.0 content • Mash up tool • Adding external content • YouTube, SlideShare, Flickr • Wiki • Simplified Blackboard Wiki • Easier to use • Gradeable

9. Assessing Learners • New question types in tests • YouTube • Calculated formula • Opinion scale/Likert • HotSpot • Quiz Bowl • Wikis now gradeable

10. 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

11. 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

12. Blackboard Learn for Academic Collaboration Mobile Learn

13. Help for you, consistency for students, meeting the minimum requirements Standard Course Structure

14. 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

15. The Portal and the ‘Playground’ Uom implementation of Bb9

16. 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

17. 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 (Option to add ‘My Organisations’ portlet) Little person icon= Blackboard Vista 8 course Bb9 icon = Bb9 course

18. Portal: students • 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)

19. ‘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

20. 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

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

22. Support for the School in Making the Move to Bb9? How to make the transition

23. 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

24. Support for your School • Individual School Plans are online at:www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearning/bb9/ • SAHC timetable: AHC Diary Dates

25. 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

26. Finding out more generally • Search for BB9 in the VLS for an overview of Pilot Phase 1 in SAHC with Dr Polly Low • http://stream.manchester.ac.uk/Play.aspx?VideoId=6185 • 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 include more information about Mobile Learn and Mobile Central • http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/tlso/newsbulletins/mle/

27. Questions?