Using Blackboard to Supplement Your Course Blackboard ® helps you to use the Internet to communicate and provide resources for your students.

BLACKBOARD -- FALL 2004

Blackboard Login URL: http://blackboard.cup.edu

Blackboard Username and Password automatically created from enrollment database.

Instructor log on procedures:

Username: 15+<Cal Email UserID>

Example: 15smith

Password: <social security number>

Example: 123456789

To change your password after you have successfully logged into Bb:
Click on "Personal Information" > click on "Change Password".

Courses you are enrolled in will automatically be listed on your "Welcome" page after logging into Blackboard.

Keystone University Network information (including info for copying course from Bb 5.5 and the new instructor manual)

http://www.lhup.edu/jbottor1/bbupgrade.htm

Students log on procedure:

Username: <Cal Email UserID>  which is the first three letters of your last name + the last four digits of you social security number

Example: smi1234

Password: <social security number>

Example: 123456789

For Blackboard technical assistance contact

24/7 Online Cal U Support Center

Click on the "Help" button at the top of the "Welcome" page or call toll-free 1-866-434-8878.

http://supportcenteronline.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=806

Using the Internet is an excellent way to stay in touch with your students.  You can provide your students with up-to-date information, online abstracts and full text articles, papers, national and state organizations' information, and many other useful Internet links that can be used to supplement your course.

Besides using my own web site, I like using  the online course authoring tool Blackboard (Bb).  The program Blackboard helps the instructor organize course information into a web site that students can log onto.  Some of the powerful tools of Bb are the online quiz , discussion boards and the posting of grades feature. To develop these tools using a typical web site would be very difficult, thus Bb helps make the online access easier.  Even if you are an experienced web site developer, using Bb in the classroom will provide features that will make designing an online course easier to do.

I use Bb in my classes to do the following :

• post general class announcements
• provide articles  and Internet links for my students to read
• use anonymous surveys to gather data about my class
• use quizzes to assess my students
• get statistics on my quiz (question by question analysis)
• have students post articles (and/or homework) in the discussion board (other students are to read them and comment on them)
• offer virtual chat room office hours (i.e. late evening)
• use electronic journals (KLW) to get a feel of how the students are thinking about the topics we are discussing
• post students' grades

 Links to Blackboard tutorial sites
(please note that the web address used in many of these tutorials are only for the faculty of that university)

• Blackboard 6 flash movies
• Blackboard 6 Instructor Manual
• Blackboard 6 Tip Sheets
• An online survey to see if you have the technical skills needed to succeed in an online course

Off-line testing development tool
 Testing, Assessment, and Survey Applications | Respondus, Inc.

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Joseph F. Zisk

California University of Pennsylvania

California, PA 15419

2004