| Blackboard: Keeping Students on Track |
| Audience: |
Instructors who have completed the introductory Getting Started workshop or similar orientation training. |
| Format: |
Face-to-face hands-on workshop |
| Length: |
2.5 hours |
| Location: |
Grasselli Library - Electronic Classroom (top floor) |
| Sessions: |
Dates and times will be announced via the daily FSA e-mail. |
| Overview: |
This workshop provides a hands-on introduction to the tools that help instructors keep students on track and improve retention and results. They will learn to customize the release of content, monitor student progress, and view course statistics.
Participants will first look at how to mark content as reviewed as they progress through a course as a student. They will also look at the types of criteria that can be applied to content items to control the release of content. Then, turning to the instructor perspective, they will learn how to create basic and advanced adaptive release rules, how to monitor student progress through specific items or through the course in general, and how to view course and item statistics. Along the way, they’ll discuss pedagogical and practical issues related to using these tools to keep track of course usage and student progress.
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| Topics: |
The Student Experience
- Marking items as reviewed
- How content is released
- Best Practice: Explaining content release to students
Using Adaptive Release
- About rules and criteria
- Setting a basic adaptive release rule
- Examples of using basic adaptive release
- Best Practice: Approaches to adaptive release
- About advanced adaptive release
- Creating an advanced rule
- Creating multiple rules
- Examples of using advanced adaptive release
- Modifying rules
- Managing rules
Monitoring Student Progress
- Enabling review status for an item
- Monitoring an item’s release and review status
- Monitoring student performance
Viewing Usage Statistics
- About course usage reports
- Running and reading the course summary report
- Enabling content statistics tracking
- Running content usage reports
- Printing and saving statistics
Workshop Wrap Up
- Spotlight on YOUR Course
- Resources
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| Objectives: |
After completing this workshop, participants will be able to:
- mark content items as reviewed
- understand how customized content release works from the student perspective
- explain content release to students
- explain rules and criteria and name the four types criteria that can be used for Adaptive Release
- explain the difference between basic and advanced Adaptive Release rules
- set basic and advanced Adaptive Release rules
- list examples of when you might use basic or advanced rules
- do some basic troubleshooting to find out why items aren’t visible
- modify, copy, rename, and remove rules
- enable the Review Status tool to track review of an item
- monitor the release and review status for a specific content item
- monitor each student’s overall performance from the Performance Dashboard
- explain the types of course usage reports and when you might use them
- run the course summary report and explain uses for each section
- enable tracking by content item
- run content item usage reports
- print and save statistics
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