Use of the Adaptive Release tool of the Blackboard

1. Use of the Adaptive Release tool of the Blackboard Evgenii Prosolupov e.prosolupov@spbu.ru

2. Agenda • Introduction • Adaptive Release • GTP and AR • Adaptive Release Advanced • Special Situations • Problem solving • Conclusion

3. Expectations • What are your expectations? • Important moments? • Your practical problems?

4. When Access Restrictions can be helpful • Date and Time in future • Limited period of availability • Individual Assignments • Show material if some test passed

5. Add/Edit element of content

6. 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

7. 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.

8. Sequence of testing

9. Schema of criteria

10. Adaptive Release The practice of using the tool

11. Road to a content

12. Contextual menu option

13. Date criterion After a date Until a date Within a timeframe

14. Date criterion

15. Membership criterion Membership in groups List of usernames

16. Membership criterion

17. Grade Center criterion Score is grater then Score is less then Score is equal to Score is between two values Execution attempt

18. Grade Center criterion

19. Review Status criterion If a review status for the student is set

20. Review Status criterion

21. Adaptive Release page • One condition for every criterion • Can see the content if all met

22. Using handouts

23. Solving problems Adaptive Release

24. Chickering and Gamson’s Good Teaching Practices

25. Good teaching... • encourages contact between students and faculty, • develops reciprocity and cooperation among students, • encourages active learning, • gives prompt feedback, • emphasizes time on task, • communicates high expectations, and • respects diverse talents and ways of learning.

26. Good Practice Uses Active Learning Techniques Interaction with learning system • Grade center criteria • Review status criteria

27. Good Practice Gives Prompt Feedback Grade Center criteria • Give additional help • Open access to further information

28. Good Practice Emphasizes Time on Task • Date/Time criteria • Become disciplined

29. Good Practice Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning • Individual assignments • Different content for different groups

30. Adaptive Release: Advanced

31. Multiple roads to a content • Can see the content if any of rules met

32. ARA contextual menu option

33. Adaptive Release: Advanced page

34. Manage Criteria page

35. Advanced Adaptive Release • One Date criterion and one Membership criterion per rule • Multiple Grade and Review Status criteria

36. Solving problems Adaptive Release: Advanced

37. Special situations What you need to remember when using Adaptive Release

38. Empty Rule

39. Empty Rule

40. Restrictions priority • Availability/Visibility of the element • or Adaptive Release rules?

41. Two Date conditions • A way to set two Date restrictions?

42. Two Date error message

43. Groups intersection • in Group A and in Group B

44. No negation of criterion • To hide A if B is Reviewed?

45. Cyclic conditions • Test 1 is available if Test 1 is passed

46. Copy, Archive and Export Rules and User Progress included during • Full course copy • Archive / Restore Not included during • Copy of course materials • Export / Import

47. Solving Problems Complicated problems & Additional situations

48. Conclusion • Adaptive Release purpose • Capabilities • Good Teaching Practices • Limitations • Exercises

49. Any questions? • http://help.blackboard.com • e.prosolupov@spbu.ru • Ask now!