Lunch & Learn: Dennis Hood — Groups in Blackboard

Wednes­day, April 25, 12:00 noon Frist Mul­ti­pur­pose Room B

Get Your Group On

Den­nis Hood

Mak­ing the Most of Blackboard’s Capa­bil­i­ties for Teach­ing and Man­ag­ing Sections

This pre­sen­ta­tion explores the var­i­ous ways groups in Black­board sites can be cre­ated and pop­u­lated, the com­mu­ni­ca­tion and teach­ing tools avail­able to groups, and fea­tures avail­able to aid in grad­ing.  We looked at the sec­tion­ing tool, group cre­ation through SCORE, and build­ing groups indi­vid­u­ally and in sets.  Manip­u­lat­ing, view­ing and print­ing group mem­ber­ship lists and pho­tos was cov­ered. For teach­ing and com­mu­ni­ca­tion, in addi­tion to the com­monly used group email and dis­cus­sion boards, we cov­ered group blogs, jour­nals, tasks, file exchange, and real-time col­lab­o­ra­tion tools. We saw how lab instruc­tors, pre­cep­tors, etc., can make read­ings and instruc­tional mate­ri­als avail­able exclu­sively to their groups in the course con­tent areas. Finally, we talked about how to eas­ily access your groups in the grade cen­ter through Smart Views and Favorites, and how to make grad­ing fairer and eas­ier through anony­mous grad­ing and use of the new inter­ac­tive grad­ing rubric.

Den­nis makes his out­line avail­able to you in this Word doc­u­ment: 20120425_hood

About the speaker:

Den­nis Hood is in his 12th year of man­ag­ing Black­board for Prince­ton. He is also using Black­board in teach­ing his speech com­mu­ni­ca­tions course at John Jay Col­lege of Crim­i­nal Jus­tice, CUNY.