Bb9 Build Workshop

Languages, Linguistics and Cultures

House keeping

• Toilets• Fire• Structure and timings of session– 90 minutes presentation and hands-on– 30 minutes additional support time

Build Workshop

• Portals & Playgrounds• The Bb9 Interface• New Features & Content• The Standard Course Structure (SCS)• Self help options

Portals

• Accessing Bb9 courses through the Portal

Accessing Bb9 courses through the Portal

• The Staff Portal is the entrance way into Bb9

• Access it from www.manchester.ac.uk/portal

• Click ‘Teaching and Research’ tab

• In the ‘My Courses’ portlet, you will see all your courses: Blackboard Vista 8 and/or Bb9: Current, Future and Ended Courses

Little person icon= Blackboard Vista 8 course

Bb9 icon = Bb9 course

(Option to add ‘My Organisations’ portlet)

The Bb9 Interface

• The Blackboard Tab– My Places, Help, Organisations

• Edit mode - replaces Build/Teach/Student tabs• Modules on the Home Page• Course Menu• ACTIVITY 1: EXPLORING THE INTERFACE

Exploring the Blackboard tab

Using ‘My Places’

About Edit Mode

Exploring the Home Page

The Course Environment

The Course Menu

Course Menu Views

Building Content

• Create an Announcement• Adding a Content Area• Add an Item

New Features & Content

• Building content• The Content Collection• External Content• Further Tools• Learning modules• Linking & Organising

Building Content

• Announcements• Content Area• Items

ACTIVITY 2: Create an Announcement

Create an Announcement (2)

ACTIVITY 3: Adding a Content Area

ACTIVITY 4: Adding Items to a Content Area

Adding Items to a Content Area (2)

Adding Items to a Content Area (3)

The Content Collection

• File Manager is now Content Collection• Drag and Drop Files into Content Collection• File management, adding subfolders• Adding an Item with a File Attachment

ACTIVITY 5: Drag and drop practice files into Content Collection

ACTIVITY 6: Adding an Item with a file attachment

External Content

• Mashups • Links

ACTIVITY 7: Adding a Mashup

ACTIVITY 7: Adding a Mashup (2)

ACTIVITY 7: Adding a Mashup (3)

ACTIVITY 8: Adding Links

Links for LLC staff

• Locate course unit descriptions so that they can insert these into BB9 sites, see:

• http://courses.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/undergraduate/#llc

• Insert a copy of the relevant feedback form for your unit too, so that students can see the criteria against which their work is being assessed. See:

• http://www.llc.manchester.ac.uk/intranet/staff/policies/teaching/Feedback/

Further Tools

• Email• Adding Contacts

ACTIVITY 9: Adding a Contact

Add a Contact (2)

1. Expand Tools area on the Control Panel2. Click the Contacts link3. Enter contact information4. Upload a picture5. Click Submit6. Check from the student view

Learning modules

• Learning modules can be used in Bb9• Are useful for sequencing learning• See: How to Create a Learning Module pdf

Organizing the Course Menu Links Add Subheaders and Dividers

Linking & Organising

• Linking to Tools from within the content area• Changing the landing page• Re-organising the course menu via drag and

drop

ACTIVITY 10: Add a link to a Course Tool

ACTIVITY 10: Add a link to a Course Tool (2)

ACTIVITY 10: Add a link to a Course Tool (3)

Activity 11: Changing a Landing Page

ACTIVITY 12: Changing the Order of Items

Self help Options

• Knowledge Base / Help Button• www.manchester.ac.uk/servicedesk – type ‘Bb9’ into the search field to get a full list of

resources.• On-Demand Learning Center

ondemand.blackboard.com • Ask Dr. C discussions.blackboard.com • Blackboard Connections

connections.blackboard.com/pages/home

eLearning Support

• Drop ins– Tuesdays and Thursdays, 12-1pm in Room C1.44,

Ellen Wilkinson• School drop ins– www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/tandl/elearnin

g/bb9/• elearning@manchester.ac.uk