how to manage projects in blackboard

What is a blackboard?

Blackboard is a global market leader changing the way higher education operates every day. They provide educational institutions with advanced software and educational consultancy to help manage student life and enable faculty to simplify their jobs from every angle, including classroom management, remote learning, accessibility issues, student IDs, and more. They also offer educational services to help their users maximize every feature.

Why is teamwork important for managers?

Managers are also finding that using Teamwork makes it easier to communicate best practices to their team members. Tools like task templates give them the ability to imbed reference documents, SOPs, and preferred task progression directly into workflows. Best practices are reinforced by simply following the task list.

What is shared environment?

In a shared environment, it is a give and take relationship between institutions, and roles should be clearly defined to prevent possible mishaps with admin settings. It is useful to focus on how the experience for the staff member that serves students and faculty is in practice.

What is a national university?

The National University System (NUS) is a non-profit educational system that serves learners of all ages through its affiliates. Founded in 1971, its main affiliate, the National University, is an accredited private non-profit university with a one-course-per-month format. National University offers flexible online and onsite programs, serving adults and veterans with flexible online education options. More than 70 degree programs are available fully online across all NUS affiliates, including: 1 National University (NU): Graduate, undergraduate, associate and extended learning 2 John F. Kennedy University (JFK): Graduate, undergraduate and extended education 3 City University of Seattle (CityU): Doctoral, master’s, bachelor’s, and associate degree programs delivered on-site and online 4 National University Virtual High School: An accredited online high school

Should institutional hierarchy be forced?

Institutional hierarchy should not be forced. This means being very mindful of the course management permissions for different users and tool availability, such as feature customization for a smaller student body with different needs, or an LTI integration.

Is National University a non profit?

Founded in 1971, its main affiliate, the National University, is an accredited private non-profit university with a one-course-per-month format. National University offers flexible online and onsite programs, serving adults and veterans with flexible online education options.

To listen

Listen to your users. Learn from your students. Deliver on what they ask you for. The result is a great experience.

Show Your Students What They Expect to See

Upon a new LMS implementation over an institution, it’s not unusual to get detailed instructions from academic leadership, instructors, marketing, or other departments, stating they know their users, how to structure the virtual campus and what must be in a particular place of a given template.

Success Case: Valencian International University

Two years ago, I switched from my ubiquitous consultant role to a more stable position as the campus keeper at the Valencia International University (VIU) in Spain.

A Never-Ending Story

UX strategy is not a linear process. If an institution wants to be in the cutting-edge of technology, things like the virtual campus have to be revisited cyclically. If you launch a UX process to renew something only once, the result will have an expiration date.

Recommendation Is the Key

I talked about the Net Promoter Score or NPS earlier. This is a measurement on how your clients (students, users) are likely to spontaneously recommend your institution to other peers. Do you recall being asked this question?

Are You Ready to Invest the Time and Effort?

Although all I’ve explained might sound ideal and unaffordable, it’s not. Our team in the Valencia International University is not big, but devoted. There are several institutions that are ready to implement User Experience strategies, and some that already have.

What is Blackboard Learning?

Within Blackboard, you can communicate with students, allow students to communicate with each other, post-learning content, manage student-facing grades, and more! Blackboard is fully capable of host a robust fully online course, being a resource repository and grade center to accompany a face-to-face course, or virtual space to flip content in a blended or videoconference course.

What is LMS in education?

In Higher Ed, the Learning Management System (LMS), like all education technology, is specifically used to promote or enhance education . There are many possibilities for content configuration and potential supporting tools in the educational technology realm–some of which are seamlessly incorporated into the LMS, some of which can be adapted to you instructional need, and some that could create potential challenges because of the LMS structure, student access, hardware or software requirements–the list goes on…

Step 1

From the Control Panel, select Evaluation and then Course Reports ( 1 ).

Step 2

Select the Action Link and then select Run ( 2) next to the report you want to generate. In this example, Course Activity Overview is selected.

Step 3

On the Run Reports page, select the Report Specifications ( 3 ) (Start Date and End Date) then select Submit to run the report.

Step 4

The report file displays in a new window ( 4 ). You may need to enable pop-ups for your browser. Report Options ( 5) allows you to select a Printable View of the report or Download to Excel. Selecting Download Report ( 6) will download the report to an Excel spreadsheet.