Student Preview – New Blackboard Feature

I would like to introduce a new Blackboard Learn feature, Student Preview. The Student Preview allows you to view your course as a student without creating a test student account. This means you can move between instructor and student view with a push of a button. In Student Preview you can take tests, participate in discussions, and view grades as a student would. You also have the ability to wipe out all “preview” student data when you turn off the student preview.

Here is a video on how to use this feature.

Blackboard Student Preview Video http://youtu.be/JCrAQewg7Is

Hello Everyone,

This week’s tip is in the form of homework.  If you have not attended any of the workshops provided as part of our Blackboard migration or just want to learn more about the tools available in Blackboard, Open SUNY has provided a set of self-paced courses for our faculty.

The two self-paced course include an Introduction and Intermediate to Blackboard Learn.  The Introduction to Blackboard Learn training course is design to prepare you to work within a hybrid course or web-enhanced course, but is not sufficient for creating a new fully online course. Intermediate Blackboard Learn training is the second training course offered for faculty new to Blackboard Learn, and it is recommended that you first complete the Introduction to Blackboard Learn course.  The intermediate course covers more advanced features of the Blackboard Learn system and is appropriate for any instructor teaching fully online, hybrid or web enhanced courses.

As faculty/staff you can self-enroll in either of these courses.  Links to these courses can be found on the home page of the NCCC Blackboard Faculty User Group or on the Resource & Policies tab under “Faculty Resources”.

 

 

Once you have enrolled in a course it can be accessed from your course list on the My Institution page or Courses page.  You will be enrolled as a participant in each of these courses.  To practice any of the stills that you learn you can use one of your fall course shells.

If you have any questions about these courses please feel free to contact me.

Donna Simiele

1. Quicker and impartiality – Do you find that your grading standards change when grading paper twenty as opposed to paper number one on the pile? If your answer to this questions is no, an honest no, then maybe you don’t need a rubric. If your answer is no than rubrics can keep you on task, grade equally, and speed up the process.
2. Provides feedback – Rubrics provide examples, guides, and feedback before and after completing assignments. How often do your students come back to you after receiving a grade and ask “why did you take points off for…”. A well-structured rubric requires very little additional explanation. In the LMS, such as Blackboard, students can view rubrics before and after completing an assignment. This also gives you more time to provide personal feedback to each student.
3. Bloom’s Taxonomy – rubrics can be aligned to student learning outcomes based on the theories of Bloom’s Taxonomy. Here is a link to an article from Educational Technology and Mobile Learning by Med Kharbach mentioning two examples of Andrew Church. This article provides examples of how to integrate Bloom’s into your grading rubrics by Church. Here is a link to Andrew Church’s full list of 20 rubrics that can be downloaded.

Donna Simiele, eLearning Technology Support Coordinator

Other Resources:

“Creating and Using Rubrics – Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation – Carnegie Mellon University.” Creating and Using Rubrics – Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation – Carnegie Mellon University. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 June 2014. <http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/assessment/assesslearning/rubrics.html>.

 

“Rubrics – Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation – Carnegie Mellon University.” Rubrics – Teaching Excellence & Educational Innovation – Carnegie Mellon University. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 June 2014. <http://www.cmu.edu/teaching/designteach/teach/rubrics.html>.