BLACKBOARD/ELLUMINATE - ONLINE COURSES

Tips and Guides on Teaching With Technology

• Using Audio Files to Comment on Student Essays
• Using Video in Your Online Teaching
• Screencasting in Online Teaching: Using Elluminate Screen Shots to Advance Instruction
• 10 Principles of Effective Online Teaching This is a very practical nuts-and-bolts guide, but its suggestion of a maximum 24 hour turn around time in replying to student postings and emails seems unrealistic. 48 hours seems more realistic.

Faculty: Some Basic Blackboard Skills and Tips

• Blackboard Copy/Archive Courses For Use in Another Term The most surefire method of getting content from course shell to course shell is NOT to copy it from source shell to target shell, but to archive the source content, download the archive to your computer, then import the archive into the target course. Instructions are on this link.
• Blackboard Assignment Submission Function
  • Printable reference: Assignment Submission Function in Blackboard
  • Webcasts: How Students Submit Assignments; How Faculty Receive and Return Assignment
• ELLUMINATE BUG REPORT, When Creating Elluminate Sessions: Note that if you have characters such as / and & in your Webster Course name Elluminate will not be able to create an Elluminate session whose name includes these characters. Rename the session by deleting / or & and the session will be created.

Faculty and Students: Word 2003 and Word 2007 file conversion

• If you have Word 2003 on your computer you will not be able to read .docx files created in Word 2007 unless you download and install this his file converter.

Blackboard - Operating System - Browser compatibility

• Not all browsers and operating systems work equally well with our version of Blackboard, which is 7.1. Refer to this chart to determine if you have the best configuration.