|
Title |
Date |
Podcast
Episode |
Description |
|
"The
Season of Change" |
6/13/08 |
88 |
Dave discusses the impending Blackboard 8 upgrade
and common beginning of semester Blackboard tasks. |
|
"Bullets
Everywhere" |
5/16/08 |
87 |
A checklist of reminders to the PS 9 upgrade, the Bb
8 upgrade, and the spring 2007 Bb class purge. |
|
"Can
You Hear Me Now?" |
4/18/08 |
86 |
Dave explains how to make links to audio files, and
embed audio player controls, in Blackboard. |
|
"Blackboard:
A Class Act" |
4/4/08 |
85 |
Dave discusses uses of Blackboard compared to
classroom tasks. |
|
"An
Apple a Day..." |
2/22/08 |
84 |
Dave goes over some health checkup items for your
Blackboard courses. |
|
"Bb8" |
2/7/08 |
83 |
"Getting ready for Blackboard 8" |
|
"Click
here for more information" |
1/25/08 |
82 |
How to name a link in Blackboard, and what you might
do with the name. |
|
"Hello:
Bb Language Packs" |
1/11/08 |
81 |
How to change languages for the Blackboard
interface. |
|
"Twas
the Night After Finals" |
12/14/07 |
80 |
Year end reminders in the Blackboard life cycle, and
plans for the upgrade to version 7.3 |
|
"That
Old Saw, Again" |
11/30/07 |
79 |
Reminders for the coming semester. |
|
"Some
Kind of Joke?" |
11/16/07 |
78 |
Enabling guest access and item access to make
Blackboard courses available prior to the beginning
date of a semester. |
|
"The
Roses of Success" |
11/9/07 |
77 |
Evaluating the effectiveness of test questions. |
|
"The
Future is Now" |
10/19/07 |
76 |
Blackboard course shell creation for Spring 2008. |
|
"Too
Many Tools" |
10/12/07 |
75 |
Turning off tools you do not use in Blackboard. |
|
"Identity
Crisis" |
10/5/07 |
74 |
Faculty faux student accounts and what they are for. |
|
"We
Need Information: Stat!" |
9/28/07 |
73 |
How to use the Blackboard Statistics Features. |
|
"When
Things Go Wrong" |
9/14/07 |
72 |
Use of the Blackboard announcement feature to
communicate with students when problems arise. |
|
"Format
Fricassee" |
9/7/07 |
71 |
Recommended formats for uploading materials to
Blackboard. |
|
"Building
Castles in the Sand" |
8/31/07 |
70 |
Announcing the Blackboard Sandbox, and what to do
with it. |
|
"Student
Procrastination Detection" |
8/24/07 |
69 |
Using the Blackboard performance dashboard and early
warning system. |
|
"Blackboard
Course Management Tips" |
8/17/07 |
68 |
Making your course available, purging of summer 2006
courses, controlling your My Courses list. |
|
"The
Coming Thing" |
7/13/07 |
65 |
A report from Blackboard World in Boston, including
mention of coming system features including
Blackboard App Pack 3, Elluminate, and SafeAssign. |
|
"Flotsam,
Jetsam, Miscellaneous & Sundry" |
6/15/07 |
64 |
How to make courses available, copy course
materials, import/export course materials, best
practice for course announcements. |
|
"Goodbye
to Wimba" |
6/8/07 |
63 |
We will be disconnecting the Wimba building blocks
from Blackboard. Here is what will happen if
you have Wimba links. |
|
"Drop
the Drop Box" |
6/1/07 |
62 |
David discusses the advantages of the Assignment
Manager over the Digital Drop Box. |
|
"You've
Got Mail!" |
5/25/07 |
61 |
Use of the Email tool, and facts about email
addresses, in Blackboard. |
|
"Announcements,
Announcements, Announcements!" |
5/18/07 |
60 |
Yes. Announcements in Blackboard. |
|
"TGIF" |
5/11/07 |
59 |
"Thank God It's Finals--A Blackboard Checklist."
Dave discusses three things you can do to make
working with the Blackboard gradebook easier at end
of semester. |
|
"Blackboard
7.2 Upgrade" |
4/12/07 |
58 |
The new features and bug fixes in the 7.2 upgrade. |
|
"Oops...now
what?" |
3/30/07 |
57 |
What to do if your course copy or export/import
procedure doesn't work correctly. Also, how to
re-load or re-set a load attempt for a course
cartridge. |
|
"Course
Prep Toolbox" |
3/22/07 |
56 |
The tools to be used in copying materials into a new
course shell: Course Copy, Export/Import, Item Copy,
and Course Cartridge tool. |
|
"...the
Water's Fine!" |
3/16/07 |
55 |
David concludes his discussion of question pools,
test/pool design and testing strategies and
deployment. |
|
"No
Running in the Pool Area" |
3/9/07 |
54 |
A discussion of question pool design and deployment. |
|
"Filling the Pool, Part 3" |
3/2/07 |
53 |
David continues describing pool use. |
| "Filling
the Pool, Part 2" |
2/23/07 |
52 |
David describes how to create question pools
manually. |
| "Filling
the Pool" |
2/15/07 |
51 |
How to assemble pools of questions in
Blackboard. |
| "Detour
Ahead" |
2/2/07 |
49 |
How to use Blackboard External Links
and Course Links. |
| "Unpopped
Kernels" |
1/26/07 |
48 |
Dave discusses the many tools
available to Palomar faculty members on the
Blackboard "Select" drop-down list for any content
area. Tools include the built-in Blackboard
tools, such as Learning Units and Assignments, and
the tools we have added to the system, such as a
TurnItIn Assignment or the Horizon Wimba voice
tools. |
| "Adding
an item to a content area in Blackboard" |
1/19/07 |
47 |
The basics on how to add an item. |
| "Please
hold on to the bar" |
1/12/07 |
46 |
Things to remember to do for classes
in the semester just ended and the semester just
beginning. |
| "Stick
a fork in it!" |
12/22/06 |
45 |
Post-mortem on the Blackboard system
upgrade of 12/22/06, end of student access to Fall
2006 classes, and tech support availability over the
holidays. |
| "Looking
Ahead: Winter Break Upgrades" |
12/15/06 |
44 |
Upgrades to Blackboard over the
break, including hot fixes to patch a Safari 2
problem and new building blocks for Pronto and the
Voice Tools. |
| "A
Time for All Things" |
12/8/06 |
43 |
How to copy course materials into new
Spring 2007 course shells, and how to filter the
gradebook to see only student name and final grade. |
| "The
Performance Dashboard" |
12/1/06 |
42 |
New and updated features in the
performance dashboard. |
| "Support
Call Roundup" |
11/17/06 |
41 |
Dave covers the Blackboard "known
issues" and other support calls we have received
recently. |
| "The
Deep End of the Pool" |
11/9/06 |
40 |
David addresses the problem with
publishers' question pools that assign 0 points per
question. |
| "Adaptive
Release" |
11/3/06 |
39 |
Dave defines and describes the use of
adaptive release in Blackboard. |
| "Word
up" |
10/27/06 |
38 |
The Blackboard glossary tool:
how to use it and its limitations. |
| "Spring
is Busting Out All Over" |
10/20/06 |
37 |
A report on the newly created Spring
2007 Blackboard course shells. |
| "Thinking
outside the (digital drop) box" |
10/6/06 |
35 |
How to use the Blackboard Assignment
Feature to manage student submissions. |
| "The
Edit View" |
9/29/06 |
34 |
Dave does a remote from Colorado.
His topic is the Blackboard Edit View, a shortcut
for adding and modifying content in Blackboard. |
| "Discussion
Board Controls" |
9/15/06 |
32 |
Dave discusses some of the DB
controls in version 7 of Blackboard. |
| "Horizon
Wimba Live Classroom" |
9/8/06 |
31 |
Dave talks about the Horizon Wimba
Live Classroom implementation in Blackboard,
describes how to set options, and suggests possible
uses. |
| "The
Faux Student Account" |
9/1/06 |
30 |
Dave discusses the reasons for and
uses of the faculty member's faux student account. |
| "A
Blackboard course copy problem and more" |
8/18/06 |
28 |
- The latest course copy
problem.
- How Blackboard courses are
defined.
- How to copy an item from one
course to another.
- A reminder to faculty members
about how to make your courses available.
|
| "SP1
Post Mortem and Other Matters" |
8/11/06 |
27 |
- A post-mortem on last night's
update of the Blackboard Learning system to
version 7.1 App Pack 1 Service Pack 1.
- A call to archive summer courses from summer
2005.
- An announcement of a new "Teaching with
Blackboard screen video and vodcast dealing with
loading publishers' course cartridges.
- That ever popular reminder: Don't
forget to make your Fall courses available so
your students can login to them.
|
|
"Anatomy of a menu" |
7/28/06 |
26 |
What
Blackboard menus can contain, how to enable
them, how to add content, how to control their
appearance and style, how to control the tools
menu area. |
| "Publishers'
course cartridges" |
7/21/06 |
25 |
The
good, the bad and the ugly about course
cartridges. How to obtain and install
them. |
| "Getting
Ready for Fall" |
7/14/06 |
24 |
What
Blackboard activities to do to get ready for the
Fall semester for:
- Those with pre-existing Blackboard content.
- Those with pre-existing Blackboard content
from another institution.
- Those starting from scratch.
Screen videos are referenced. |
| "Personal
Information Settings" |
6/30/06 |
23 |
Privacy, password, email and text box settings
are discussed. Student eServices are
referenced. Screen
captures included. |
| "Three
Features" |
6/23/06 |
22 |
- Reminders to faculty - don't forget to make
your Blackboard courses available and if you are
having trouble with passwords, reset your
password in eServices. By the way,
TELL-A-FRIEND.
- How to see all replies to a thread in the
new Blackboard discussion board version 7.1.
- How to set up student voice email, so that
students can send you audible mail.
|
| "Using
HTML with your Blackboard menu" |
6/9/06 |
21 |
How
to modify your Bb menus using html tags.
A screen shot and design
references are included. |
| "Reminders to faculty in advance of the
beginning of the 6 and 8 week summer classes." |
6/2/06 |
20 |
Copying Course Content into Another Course
Set your Faculty Blackboard Email Address in
eServices
Making Your Course Available
|
| "The
joys and despairs of upgrading Blackboard" |
5/26/06 |
19 |
The
experience of upgrading to Blackboard version
7.1 and integrating a new database server into
the Blackboard system. |
| "The Wimba
Voice Tools" |
5/19/06 |
18 |
Description of the Wimba voice tools, including
audio discussion boards, audio email, and audio
announcements. |
| "The
Blackboard Life Cycle of Courses and Accounts" |
5/12/06 |
17 |
When
and how courses and user accounts are created,
and when they go away. |
| "The
upcoming upgrade to Bb 7.1" |
5/4/06 |
16 |
The
features that will be available in Blackboard
version 7.1. |
| "Review
Status Control" |
4/21/06 |
14 |
Part
of adaptive release: How to turn on review
status in the control panel. |
| "Integrating
Blackboard discussion boards into other course
content areas" |
3/31/06 |
12 |
How
to perform this procedure. |
| "Export/import
in Blackboard" |
3/23/06 |
11 |
At
this time, course copy in Blackboard did not
work, and was turned off. We describe here
how to use export/import in its place. As
of 5/20/06 course copy was turned on again for
instructors. Written
instructions [pdf] and a flash screen video are
referenced. |
| "Features
of Blackboard 7.1" |
3/17/06 |
10 |
Discussion of the range of features available in
the upcoming upgrade to version 7.1 of
Blackboard. |
| "Controlling
the view in the Blackboard gradebook" |
3/10/06 |
9 |
A
detailed description of controlling the view in
the Blackboard gradebook, specifically, how to
filter to see only student name and final grade.
A flash screen video is included. |
| "Discussion
board user settings" |
3/3/06 |
8 |
This
refers to the discussion board as it existed
prior to version 7.1 |
| "How
to remove old or extraneous courses from your My
Courses list." |
2/24/06 |
7 |
The
procedure is described. Written
instructions are provided. |
| "How
to set the course entry point" |
2/16/06 |
6 |
The
control panel procedure is described. |
| "The document unpackager" |
2/9/06 |
5 |
This
Blackboard tool allows upload and unpackaging of
complex file structures. Written
descriptions are supplied. |
| "The
performance dashboard" |
2/2/06 |
4 |
The
performance dashboard can be used as a retention
tool. |
| "The
Discussion Grader" |
1/27/06 |
3 |
A
discussion of how to use the discussion grader.
This was prior to version 7.1, where the
discussion grader changed to Blackboard's own,
built-in discussion grader. |
| "The
course identifier in the subject line of all
emails" |
1/20/06 |
2 |
This
very useful email filing feature is described. |
| "What's
new in Blackboard version 7" |
1/13/06 |
1 |
A
variety of features from the installation of
Blackboard version 7. |
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