U of S Course Tools (Blackboard)
(You can also log in by selecting the "Course Tools" icon in PAWS)
Having trouble logging in?
U of S Course Tools (Blackboard) is a full-featured and widely
adopted virtual learning environment. It provides an integrated set of
tools to support online content delivery, learning communities, and assessment. It can be used to support courses that are completely online or used to augment a course delivered face-to-face, by satellite, etc. With this system, you can:
- distribute course materials (more....)
- provide an online syllabus (more...)
- communicate with students (more...)
- online assignment distribution and submission (more...)
- facilitate student group work (more...)
- deliver online quizzes and exams (more...)
- manage student marks (more...)
Creation of courses, identification of instructors, and placing students into courses in Blackboard is handled automatically based on current information in the student registration system. Alternatively, courses which do not correspond to a class in the student registration system can be created and populated manually.
See HELP DOCUMENTATION NOW
In This Section
Features
Integration with PAWS
Courses are accessible from within PAWS > Academics Tab > My Courses (channel)
Automatic Management of Class Lists
Students appear automatically in the U of S Course Tools (Blackboard) class grade book when they register for a class.
Comprehensive Quizzing Capabilities
Instructors may build a variety of questions based on the questions types available within the system. The questions may be chosen to be included in online quizzes, randomly if so desired. Many of the questions in the quizzes may be graded automatically, a timesaving feature for instructors and a possible automatic method of feedback and grading to students. (more...)
Support for Individual and Group Assignments
Instructors can easily create, distribute, grade, and return assignments online, complete with notes to students, using standardized grading forms such as Rubrics.
Students can easily obtain, and hand in their assignments online. (more...)
Multiple Communication Methods
A variety of ways to communicate with students within the system, includes discussions, course blogs, student journals, chat rooms, shared whiteboards, email, and more.
Many of these tools may be graded based on instructor-defined criteria. (more...)
Support for Student Group Work
Students can self enroll or be assigned groups and may be graded individually or altogether.
Groups may have private work areas, discussion boards, chat rooms and shared resources. (more...)
Support for Multiple Teaching Methodologies
A variety of teaching methodologies is supported. Instructors may:
- control the dates of visibility of course content to students.
- hide certain content until students have demonstrated mastery of previous content.
- choose to use quizzes can be used as a study tool (multiple quiz attempts with different questions each time)
- provide Wiki and Blog spaces
- provide individual or group assignments.
- include podcasts, lecture capture, multimedia materials
- (more...)
Support for Multiple Teaching Technologies
Instructional Managment System (IMS) Content Packaging, IMS Quiz and Test Interoperability, and SCORM modules are supported.
Instructors can easily use course content and quizzes developed by other people, even if those people use a different learning management system.
Course materials developed in BBLearn can easily be shared with colleagues.
More WebCT/Blackboard News »
