Blackboard Training Series

Cohort 1 Agenda Webinars (2 Hours)

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Webinars Date Time

Designing e-Learning CoursesMonday, June 29, 2020

10:00 AM EDT

Support and Success for the Online Learner

Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:00 PM EDT

Designing Engaging Discussions

Monday, July 13, 2020 10:00 AM EDT

Mastering the Grade Center Monday, July 20, 2020 10:00 AM EDT

Assignments, Assessments, and Rubrics

Monday, July 27, 2020 10:00 AM EDT

All Cohorts Office Hours (1.5 hours)

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Date TimeWednesday, July 1, 2020 10:00 AM EDT

Thursday, July 9, 2020 2:00 PM EDT

Wednesday, July 15, 2020 2:00 PM EDT

Friday, July 24, 2020 1:00 PM EDT

Thursday, July 30, 2020 2:00 PM EDT

Thursday, August 6, 2020 1:00 PM EDT

Thursday, August 13, 2020 1:00 PM EDT

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 1:00 PM EDT

Your Trainer

Professional Experience for Andrea

• 25 years corporate sales/marketing

• 10+ years adjunct faculty, community college and university; online, face-to-face, hybrid

• 7+ years senior functional consultant, trainer, course developer

Andrea WhiteSenior ConsultantBlackboard Global Client Experience

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Your Trainer

Professional Experience for Jeff

• 11+ years higher education

• 11+ years adjunct faculty, community college and university; online, face-to-face, hybrid

• 9+ years consultant, trainer, instructional designer

Jeff GeronimoManager, Educational Consulting & TrainingBlackboard Global Client Experience

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Designing Engaging Discussions

Objectives • Identify the benefits of discussion forums.

• Discuss how to create meaningful discussions.

• Experiment with creating, managing, and grading discussions.

• Develop questions using Bloom’s Taxonomy.

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Overview of Discussion Boards

• Social interaction among peers

• A medium for collaboration

• A tool to pose questions

• Demonstrate understanding or application

• Record of discussion

Benefits

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Discussion Meaningful Discussions

• What netiquette guidelines will you share with your learners to support meaningful online discussions?

• How can you make a discussion prompt effective in order to have meaningful online discussion?

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Accessing the Discussion Board

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Discussion Lifecycle

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Discussion Lifecycle

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RECIPE SHARING

Discussion Forum Structure (with replies possible at each post)

PIZZA PIE SOUR

CREAM

MASHED

POTATOS

BAKED MAC

AND

CHEESE

NEW

THREAD

YOUR

FAVORITE

POST A

POST B

POST C

POST A

POST B

POST C

POST A

POST B

POST C

POST A

POST B

POST C

Practice Posting and Replying to a Forum

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• Access https://learnonline.blackboard.com/

• Username = your email without @ccri.edu (not case sensitive)

• Password: CHANGEME1234 (Case sensitive)

• Go to Webinar Practice: Discussions; post based on first letter of last name

• A-E, contribute to the Pizza Pie thread.

• F-L, contribute to the Sour Cream Mashed Potatoes thread.

• M-Q, contribute to the Baked Mac and Cheese thread.

• P-Z, create a new thread of your own choosing, or add to one of the new threads.

Practical Post and Reply to a Forum

Engaging with the Discussion Boards

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Discussion Board Roles

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Reorder forums

Collect posts

Search discussions

Filter posts

Sort posts

Tag threads

Managing Forums

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• Encouraging participation

• Providing better organization and flow

• Assigning a moderator

Best Practices for Discussions Boards

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Creating Discussions

Access individual tools from the course menu

Access tools from the Tools link on the course menu

Access individual tools from a course area.

Method 3Method 2Method 1

Adding Tools to Content Areas

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Add the Discussion

Determine settings

Create a new thread

Moderate thread for new

posts

Creating a New Discussion Board

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Items to Consider

Do you want to allow learners to have the ability to:

• Delete or edit their own posts?

• Post anonymously?

• Create their own threads?

• Publish their own posts?

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Posts: Read vs Unread

View: List vs Tree

Status: Lock vs Unlocked

Message Actions: Flag vs Unflagged

Email Alerts

Grading Discussion Posts

Interacting with Forums

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Writing Effective Discussion Questions

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Discussion Successful and Engaging Discussions

• Identify at least three things that will make discussion threads engaging.

• Identify at least two things that will set learners up for success when participating in a discussion thread.

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• Establish discussion etiquette

• Descriptive subject lines

• Keep posts short

• Include something new

• Back up your statements

• Use professional language

• Use attachments or links

• Stay on topic

• Be respectful

• Quantity and quality

Discussion Etiquette

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Practical Create a Discussion

Grading Discussions

Participation and Grading

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Create Participate Grade View Grade

Discussion Grading Process

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Practical Assessing Discussions

Questions

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