Getting Started (Instructors)

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Getting Started Guides (Instructors)

Blackboard is an online course management system used to deliver web-based distance learning courses and as a technology supplement for face-to-face courses. Instructors can easily post course syllabi and other documents to their course site. Blackboard offers a number of online tools including discussion board, announcements, quizzes, gradebook, calendars, & group collaboration.

Requesting a Blackboard Course

At this time, Blackboard courses are only available to HSC instructors. To create a course in Blackboard, instructors must request a course through the Course Request Form which requires several key pieces of information, including:

The instructors HSC username - this is used to create an account in Blackboard for the instructor
Official PeopleSoft data about the course - course name, catalog abbreviation and number, section number and, if available, classID. This information is usually available through the instructor's college
Semester in which the course is to be taught - Bb course sites may be requested at anytime before the course will actually be offered.

When a course is requested well before the start of the semester in which it will be offered, or anytime the course does not yet have a ClassID in PeopleSoft, the course will be created, temporarily, as a development course. Prior to the start of the semester, this course will be transferred to the permanent, uniquely named production course and student rosters will automatically be uploaded to the Bb course from PeopleSoft data.

Getting Started Guides

Three (3) resources are provided here to help instructors get started using Blackboard. These documents are in Adobe PDF format (free Adobe Reader is required) and may be opened or downloaded by clicking on the resource name below:

HSC Bb 7 Instructor Handbook [ 30 pages] - a customized and simplified version of the Bb Instructor Manual (below) includes a basic overview of course management systems, in general, as well as information specific to the implementation of Bb at the OU Health Sciences Center. This guide provides very basic information on the tools within Bb and how to use them to create online instructional materials.
Blackboard 7 Instructor Manual [ 325 pages] - the complete instructor manual provided by Blackboard. This manual provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on Bb tools and functionality. Note: very large
Adaptive Release and Review Status Manual [ 15 pages]- the section from the full instructor manual on the newest content features: adaptive release and review status

In addition to these print resources, the Course Help and Learning Knowledgebase (CHaLK) team can provide information to users on how to get started using Blackboard. CHaLK team contacts are available on the Blackboard login page.

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