You only need basic computer skills to follow this course on creating web pages and interactive features for your students using Blackboard. Building and managing powerful eLearning courses has never been simpler.

Key Features

Learn to use the essential features of Blackboard to create and administer great courses
Add interaction to your courses with discussion boards, blogs, and wikis
Create meaningful tests and graded assignments

Book Description

Blackboard is the world's most popular commercial learning management system. With Blackboard you can construct and deliver professional quality elearning courses with ease. Its many features, which allow you to manage courses, grading and assessments, and social collaboration, are the standard against which other learning management systems are measured. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers shows you how to use Blackboard's most essential features by guiding you through the development of a demonstration course, built on Blackboard's free site for teachers, coursesites.com. You will also learn more about Blackboard's most important features, such as the gradebook, using clear instructions to guide you every step of the way. By following an example course, this book will guide you, step-by-step, through creating your own Blackboard course. Start by adding static material for students to view, such as pages, links, and media. Then, add interaction to your courses, with discussion boards, blogs, and wikis. Most importantly, engage your students in your course by communicating with them, assessing them, and putting them into groups. Blackboard Essentials for Teachers will enable you to take your elearning course from inception, to construction, to delivery.

What you will learn

Create web pages using Blackboard s editor
Organize your course with pages and modules
Add files and media for students to download
Interact with students using discussion boards, blogs, and wikis
Test your students by building and administering full-featured online tests
Assess your students with submitted assignments
Ease your workload by managing groups of students
Communicate with your students using messages and announcements

Who this book is for

If you are a teacher or course builder, you need only basic computer skills to get the most from this book. You don't need any background in online teaching or building Web pages.

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