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A Brief Overview of Blackboard Backpack

A Brief Overview of Blackboard Backpack. Access Organize Interact. Key Student Benefits:. Key Student Benefit: Access. Students can access course content anywhere, anytime. Take Courses with Them. Blackboard Backpack provides an “offline” smart client

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A Brief Overview of Blackboard Backpack

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  1. A Brief Overview of Blackboard Backpack

  2. Access Organize Interact Key Student Benefits:

  3. Key Student Benefit: Access • Students can access course content anywhere, anytime

  4. Take Courses with Them • Blackboard Backpack provides an “offline” smart client • Configure and connect to Blackboard server using same URL, username, and password • Single-click content mobilization • Give students a convenient way to access and maintain an up-to-date personal copy of their course materials

  5. Take Blackboard Offline • Blackboard Backpack enables students to synch key course elements from their institution’s Blackboard server to their local computer. • Synched items include: • Course Content Items • Announcements • Assignments • Calendar Items • Tasks

  6. Key Student Benefit: Organize • Students can organize assignments, due dates, and content

  7. Students Get Organized • Scheduled course events are automatically integrated with personal calendar and tasks including: • Assignments • Quizzes • Tests • Provides a flexible way for students to integrate coursework into their daily schedules • Students never have to miss another lab, assignment, test or quiz

  8. Multiple Calendar Views: Today’s View • Presents unified view of Blackboard and personal appointments • Bold dates on mini calendar indicate activity • Announcements and Tasks are integrated into Today’s View

  9. Multiple Calendar Views: Week and Monthly Views • Enables students to manage a busy schedule a week or month in advance • Users can easily drag and drop calendar items to reschedule • Provides ability to track completed tasks

  10. Organize Materials • Students can organize more than just their classes • Activities/Clubs • Personal • Student Business • Easily create, personalize and move tabs • Demote tab to folders or sub-folders

  11. Key Student Benefit: Interact • Students can interact with, annotate, search, and manage their learning environment

  12. Interact with Learning Resources • From one place, students can: • Annotate course materials • Search every word on every page • Access an unlimited supply of “digital filler paper” for note taking • Save on paper printing by printing to “digital paper”

  13. Annotate Course Materials • Using their laptops, students can personalize course and research materials in real time by: • Adding notes during lectures • Highlighting key research findings • For students with Tablet PCs, Blackboard Backpack as native digital ink support – making annotation even easier.

  14. Search Any Word on the System • Every word in the system is indexed and searchable • Students can search for terms across Blackboard content items, lecture notes, etc. • Searching is fast and students can easily navigate to search term hits • Search results are highlighted for easy viewing

  15. Digital Filler Paper Enables Note Taking • Note taking is made easy through an unlimited supply of digital “filler paper” • Digital paper type can be changed to fit subject • Notes can be e-mailed to other students or instructors • All notes (including handwritten ones) are searchable for easy organization and retrieval later on

  16. Create Digital Paper Effortlessly • Blackboard Backpack adds a special “printer” to capture any document under a tab or folder • Allows students to turn any static page into an annotatable, searchable and interactive resource

  17. Instructor Efficiency • Classroom: • On the fly student feedback • Share notes • Better delivery • Research: • All resources in one place • Available offline • Fully searchable "Backpack helps me use a more dynamic presentation style by making it easier to visibly include student feedback in the lecture material on the fly. Also, my students appreciate that I share my notes with them. And another really significant benefit is my ability to easily capture, store, and search these comments to improve my delivery for future presentations.." Steve LiddleAssociate Professor of Information SystemsBrigham Young University

  18. Try Blackboard Backpack Today! Visit www.blackboard.com/backpackto download your personal trial copy

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