Monday, March 22, 2010

Blackboard Learn: The Move from Course management to Learning Management

Acosta, U. Houston

Blackboard 9 is an LMS, more interactive than typical CMS system.
  • Community engagement from outside of course
Should move students to being creators of knowledge.

Learn 9 has more collaborative tools than previous versions.


Student performance features
  • Alert system for students
  • Dashboard for tracking
  • Basic statistics for grades
  • Can manipulate grades
  • Gradebook reporting
  • Adaptive release

Student needs
  • More robust reporting features by students, class, group
  • Participation column for attendance, postings, peer reviews
  • Showcase of student work
  • Refereed journals
  • Faculoty writing
  • Search engine for data mining for searching specific works.
BB tutorials now available for BB Learn 9.1

Wish list includes
  • Commenting within a document for assignment comments
  • Audio commentary
Currently available for Group tools
  • Students create won groups
  • Wikis
  • Group files storage
  • chat room enhancements
General student resoruces
  • Available
  • Disctionary and tehsaurus
  • Scholar for bookmarking
Wish list
  • APA and etc. style guides
  • Note taking
  • Calculators
  • Maps
  • Graphing tools
  • Clip art

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