Blackboard
What is it and is it for me?

What is it?  

• Blackboard is a software product for course management. At COS, the Distance Learning and LISTO budgets pay the annual subscription costs for Blackboard.

• COS has our own server to house Blackboard, but it can be accessed from any computer either on-campus or off-campus.

• Blackboard is fairly user friendly, but some training helps a lot. You do not need to be an Internet Expert to use it

Who can use it?

• Any adjunct or full-time instructor may use Blackboard in their classes and take the training workshops listed here.

Why use it?

• Blackboard can help to manage and enhance your course at any point you wish.

• Blackboard can help you reach out to various styles of learning among your students.

How Blackboard is being used at COS

• Enhancing Traditionally Taught Classes

  • Instructors may post announcements or lecture notes or assignments on Blackboard, post web sites, post PowerPoint presentations, or make use of the Discussion board.
    

  • YOU choose how and when to use Blackboard to help you teach your subject.

   

• Presenting Hybrid Classes

  • Some instructors use Blackboard to host part of their class, in addition to videos, on-campus meetings and other methods that work with their particular subject. If you course has not been approved already for online delivery, you'll need to submit a course outline addendum to your division Curriculum Committee and to the campus-wide Curriculum Committee.

   

• Presenting Totally Online Classes

  • Some instructors have moved their entire class online to reach students who can't take a traditional class or whose learning style suits an online environment, or because the instructor feels he/she teaches better in an online environment. Again, . If your course has not been approved already for online delivery, you'll need to submit a course outline addendum to your division Curriculum Committee and to the campus-wide Curriculum Committee.
    

  • Some textbook companies are also selling class cartridges that have mapped out an entire class with assignments, test, and other resources. You can plug the cartridge into Blackboard, adjusting the content to your own teaching methods.

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