Blackboard

                           Blackboard

Blackboard is a tool that allows faculty to add resources for students to access online. Powerpoint, Captivate, video, audio, animation, and other applications are created outside of Blackboard and added into Blackboard courses for students to enhance teaching and learning efforts.

Here are some examples of how technology is used to support effective teaching and learning.

🧡Multiple Learning Styles: Blackboard (Bb) can allow you to provide multiple content formats (text, images, sound, audio, animations, graphs, etc.), which allows for students to find material based on their preferred learning style.

🧡Audio/Video: As with this Italian course, students benefit greatly by watching an Italian movie clip. Seeing and listening to native Italian speaking people is at their fingertips anytime, anywhere. Small movie clips can be added into a Bb course or larger files can be linked to the Media Streaming Server.

🧡Games: Who said education can’t be fun? Play Jeopardy, Who Wants to be a Millionaire or provide crossword puzzles for students to use in Bb or in class.

🧡Group Tools: Bb provides a collaborative area for student groups to discuss within a threaded discussion board, chat (synchronously) with their group members, exchange files for review or additions, and/or send email to each other. Students today have many responsibilities and finding a time and place to meet can be very difficult. These Group tools allow all users to meet on their own timelines.

🧡Virtual Classroom Tool: Students and instructors may communicate on a topic in the synchronous chat room within Bb. Real-time communication with Whiteboard tools can be used for collaboration and off-site office hours.

Also here is the link of the video about how to use it; https://youtu.be/1Fhf0qVCIoc