Teaching TechieYou can be one too!

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THINKING ABOUT YOUR OBJECTIVES AND GOALS

Site Organization

Best Practices: Effective Design Tips

Enrollment Practices at MCC

Textbook Publisher Content Support

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Site Organization• Use of minimal buttons

– Use folders to organize within areas• Consistency is Key• Use pdf and rtf files … but

– Provide text content so that downloads are not necessary to view content

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Effective Design Tips• Communicate regularly with students via

eMail and Announcements• Make students responsible for reading

announcements 3+ times a week• Consistent Organization of site• Remember to make site available!

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Enrollment Practices at MCC• Daily interface with WebAdvisor to update class list

– Students will be hidden when there is a hold issue with the registrar

– List is updated daily• Enrollments for Incompletes must be requested through

OIT• Enrollments for Directed Study must be created through

the registration (datatel) process

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Ask Your Textbook Publisher• Course Cartridge• Other electronic content• Look for Instructor CD and other resources

(often listed in the Teacher’s Edition or on publisher website page for your textbook)

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LEARNING OBJECT TYPES

Folders and Items

Assignments

Tests and Quizzes

External Links

Course Links

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Folders and Items• Best practice: make folders first

– Next Add items– Use Course Links to drive students to other

areas in your course site• Upload items when needed for download,

provide text view on screen (copy/paste)

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Assignment Feature• Within any content area, use the dropdown list to create

assignments (and grade center item!)• Students will be provided with a View/Complete link to

upload a file• No need to create a separate grade center column• ! In green box will indicate paper has been submitted to

you

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Tests and Quizzes• Use POOL MANAGER to create reusable

questions• Use TEST MANAGER to create tests• Use the test link in a course content area to

deploy a test – set options with Test Options link• Grade Center column automatically created

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Test Center Options• Timed quizzes – allow at least 2 minutes

per question (reading and thinking time)• Randomize Questions – students will see

questions in a different order from others• Use Random Block or Pool Upload to use

questions from a pool

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Question Types• Use dropdown list to select question types

– many available!• Can use images for questions and/or

answers• Use Creation Settings to set options for

test, uncheck options not needed

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Links• Use External Links to link to a website on

the Internet (you can set to open in the Blackboard window or a new window)

• Use Course Links to link from one area of your course to another (great for leading students to discussion board directly!)

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