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Blackboard 8What is new?
Ir. Willem van Valkenburg
Blackboard Beheer
Overview
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What has changed?
• Grade Center• Self- and Peer Assessment• SafeAssign• Content System enhancements• Discussion Board enhancements• New lay-out
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Grade Center
• New toolbar
• Create reports
• Inline editing
• Grade calculations:
• Average, Minimum/maximum grade, Improved weighted grades
• Smart view: subset of students and grades• A multitude of ways to customize the display
of the Grade Center • History of all changes in grades.
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New toolbar
• Adding columns • Managing Grading Periods • Grading Schema • Smart Views • Emailing Students • Creating Reports • Viewing Grade History
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Reports
• The Instructor can control what grades are displayed in the Report as well as what student information appears. A signature line and any comments can be added. Reports can then be printed from the screen and distributed.
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Grade Calculations
• In the Grade Center, an Instructor can calculate grades by combining multiple Columns to attain performance results, such as class averages, final grades that are based on a weighted scale, or total points, and so on.
• These include Weighted grade, Total points grade, Average grade, and Minimum/Maximum grade.
• Each of these functions allows the Instructor to choose the Columns included, such as all Columns from a Grading Period, all Columns, or selected Columns.
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Smart Views
• Instructors have the ability to customize the Grade Center to display a subset of Students based on selected criteria. Called Smart Views these customized displays can be saved and used again.
• Students can be sorted based on Course, Group, performance measurements, or other criteria.
• Once built and saved, Smart Views become a selectable list item on the Current View drop-down menu of the Grade Center page, enabling easy navigation from one view to another.
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Grading Schema• Administrators and Instructors can create
Grading Schema and then use it in grading.
• Grading Schemas may be edited or added to an ongoing Course and grades will be updated to reflect the changes.
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Self and Peer Assessment
• Greater understanding of grading criteria (Self Assessment)
• Constructive feedback between students (Peer Evaluation)
• Feedback without bias (Optional Anonymous Evals)
• Focus reviewers on specifics (Criteria & Criteria Points)
• Summarise evaluations (Results Report)
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SafeAssign• Plagiaat prevention service.• Assignment is checked against:
• Internet • ProQuest ABI/Inform database with over 1,100
publication titles and about 2.6 million articles• Institutional document archives containing all papers
submitted to SafeAssign by users in their respective institutions
• Global Reference Database containing papers that were volunteered by students from Blackboard client institutions to help prevent cross-institutional plagiarism. Over 1 mln papers.
• SafeAssign supports Word (DOC), Plain text (TXT), Rich text format (RTF), PDF, and HTML formats.
• Direct submit: upload a zip with multiple papers.(max 10 MB and 300 papers per zip-file)
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Content System Enhancements• New 360° view allows you to see what’s going on with a
piece of content:• Gain insight into how content is being used and by
whom with tracking data.• Know when to delete old or irrelevant files.
• Recycle Bin• All personal or group Content Area’s now have a
Recycle Bin that serves as a staging area for deleted items.
• Unique ID• Links to the Content System files and folders are no
longer stored as absolute paths. • Content System items may be moved freely within the
application.
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Discussion Board Enhancements
• Mark posts Read when collected. It’s now takes only two clicks to marks every post in a collection as read.
• Quick Collect unread posts in a forum. One click collects every unread post in a forum.
• Return of the tree view.• Tagging of messages.• Forum Availability on date and time
restrictions.
New Design
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Planning
• Blackboard update starting 13th of July 18:00 until Tuesday 15th.
• New courses wil be generated on 1st of August.
• Instructor courses available in the week of 18th to 22nd of August
Recap
• Easy-to-use Grade Center
• Active learning with Self and Peer Assessment
• Protect originality with SafeAssign
• Institution-wide Content Management
• Academic debate with the Discussion Board
• Blackboard not available 13th to 15th of July