Getting to Know Ted

1. Getting to Know Ted A Guide to the Personality of WebCT’s Successor, Blackboard Learn 9

2. Topics Navigating Ted Imported Courses from WebCT New Courses Content Tools Collaboration & Communication Tools Tests, Assignments, and Grades

3. Little Goodies Open links in new tabs! (Mostly) Don’t get logged out every 15 minutes Java only required for Chat/Virtual Classroom tool No Browser Check Drag to re-order list items

4. Importing from WebCT When you request a course website: • We will migrate the most recent offering of your course to Blackboard • A new blank course site will be created for your current class • You may choose to import as much content as you like Watch a demonstration video: http://iwdc.ucsd.edu/ted/ • click Copy Content from an Imported WebCT site

5. Navigating Ted: Landing Page

6. Navigating Ted: WebCT Equivalents Build Tab Course Menu Syllabus Course Content Instructor/Designer Tools Gradebook, Student Submissions Manage Course

7. Setting Up a New Course • Course menu includes a default set of common locations • All course tools available, via Tools link • Organization • Add tools, content area to Menu • Can add as many Content areas as desired • Add files, folders, and tools to Content Areas • When Edit Mode is off, you see the same items students see • Items hidden from students may be used in Edit Mode

8. Course Content • Files, folders, assignments, and other tools listed along page • Consistent look between all courses

9. Course Content: Adding Content With Edit Mode on, buttons appear allowing you to add content to the page.

10. Course Content: Post a File From the Build Content menu, select File Select the file from your computer

11. Course Content: Adding Tools From the Content page, add links to Tests, Assignments, Discussions, and other class tools. For all tools (except Assignments)

12. Learning Modules: Organized Content New Feature: Enforce sequential viewing order • As with WebCT, Build content designed to be viewed in a sequential order

13. Mail Tools • WebCT’s Mail tool • Messages stayed inside the class website • A copy of the content was emailed to students, but they had to return to WebCT to reply Replaced by two tools with complementary features: • Messages: Send a message inside Blackboard • Maintains a stand-alone mailbox, with Inbox, Sent folders • Student not notified via email • Used as equivalent to Mail in classes imported from WebCT • Email: Sends a regular email to students • Once the message is sent, no involvement in Blackboard • No Sent folder to maintain history of sent messages • No notification to students in Blackboard • Email appears to come from your email address, so students can reply directly to message

14. Mail Tools Available on Tools page … or add directly to the Course Menu Check this if you want students to use the tool

15. Discussions • Topics are organized in Forums. Click Create Forum to add a Forum for each distinct topic of conversation (Papers, Tests, Administrative) • Instructor may choose to moderate posts • Students may opt to subscribe to forums, to receive an email notification when a new message is posted • No longer allowsForums to be organized into Categories

16. Blogs and Journals • Provides a place for individuals or groups to share information and opinions with the class • Journal: Record of progress and notes; only the instructors may respond • Blog: Publish opinions or progress, where others in the course may post feedback comments • Easier to find in Ted: Add via Add Interactive Tool, making them easier to find and add to your course

17. Wiki • Provides a place for students to work together as a class or in groups to create content • Completely contained within Ted • No longer requires using a separate tool on a separate website • Easily set up separate private spaces for groups • Integrated with grading • Assists you evaluating individual students’ contributions

18. Chat and Whiteboard • Chat: Basic messaging • Virtual Classroom: Includes whiteboard and other features • Present other class content to viewers in chat window • Hand-raising • Breakout sessions

19. Calendar • More basic • Fewer options for visibility and viewing • No recurring events • As with the Email tool: Listed on Tools page, may be added to Course Menu

20. Assessments • Now called a Test or Survey • Includes many new question types • Less chance to lose students’ responses • Generally a long list of reduced features (most are rarely-used customizations) • Grading moved to Grade Center

21. Assignments • Functionality largely unchanged • Student attaches file to submission • Instructor decides whether to allow “drafts” • Instructor may return file with grade • Grading moved to Grade Center

22. Turn-It-In Assignments • Little changed WebCT • Use TurnItIn inside WebCT window without a separate username/password • No confusing Settings page, as in WebCT’s Build tab • Instructor may submit on behalf of a student by clicking link to assignment • View Assignment Inbox from Control Panel > Course Tools • Grading moved to Grade Center

23. i>Clicker Registration Student i>Clicker registration is identical to WebCT: • Instructors add a Registration tool to a Content page • Students click Registration tool, and type in their i>Clicker ID • May take up to a minute to load! • Instructor then uses i>Grader tool to synchronize registrations For more information, visit:http://iwdc.ucsd.edu/iclicker

24. Gradebook: Grade Center • Consolidates grade options to one place • In WebCT, there might be many different places whereyou could set a column as Released to Students • Easier column types • All columns “scores”, but can be displayed as • Number • Percent (relative to points possible) • Letter, according to “schema” you define • Score may be entered as letter or number • No more Histogram in statistics • Does have text chart of grade distribution • No more Grading Forms • Can associate a Rubric with an assignment, but does not use it to help with grading

25. Gradebook: Needs Grading • Shows Ungraded Tests, Assignments, and TurnItIn assignments • For Tests and Assignments, may choose “Grade Anonymously” to grade all students’ submissions in random order, with student’s name hidden during grading process

26. Gradebook Equivalents: Grade Center • More spreadsheet-like • Click on a grade to make changes in the same window • Use arrows to move to next student Show only interesting columns Upload/Download Spreadsheet Weighted columns Quicker access to column settings Know at a glance what students see Click on a score to edit in place Highlights To-Do Items

27. Weighted Columns • Much easier to create a weighted score • Easy to exempt a student from an assignment, so the weighted score ignores that assignment

28. Any Questions? … about something covered too quickly? … something you use a lot in WebCT? … something you wish WebCT did differently?

29. Thank you! • More information • Email: iwdc@ucsd.edu • Phone: x23315 • Frequently Answered Questions: http://iwdc.ucsd.edu/ted • This will grow as we get more questions – feel free to contact us! • Resources from Blackboard: Look for the Instructor & Designer Resources - Ted Training class when you log in to http://ted.ucsd.edu