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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