What is Blackboard Collaborate?
Blackboard Collaborate is an all-in-one web conferencing platform that allows instructors to hold classes online in real time or record lectures or short videos to post to your course site.
What is the phone number for Blackboard?
Anyone, from any campus, in need of Blackboard support should call the Division of Information Technology Service Desk at 803-777-1800 and follow the prompts.
What is Blackboard Ally?
Depending on the accommodation needed, you may be able to provide the accommodation using the Blackboard Ally tool, which provides Alternative Formats (audio, Braille, ePub, HTML, etc) of your course materials. Instructor Feedback can also provide the instructor with guidance to meet accessibility standards.
Does Blackboard collaborate have closed captioning?
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra does not automatically closed caption a meeting. Live captioning means there is a person in the Blackboard Collaborate meeting who provides closed captioning as the meeting is happening.
General Characteristics
- Below are some general characteristics of First Generation College Students. 1. Not a monolithic group, but have some shared experiences, traits, and patterns of behavior 2. Likely to attend college close to home 3. May work full-time 4. May serve as cultural brokers or translators at home 5. Often, but not always low-income 6. May feel separated from family and friends at hom…
Obstacles to Success
- FGS may face a variety of obstacles, including: 1. Lack of self-esteem and self-efficacy 2. Financial challenges 3. Psychological barriers 4. Lack of support from home 5. Trouble fitting in on campus 6. Balancing social life with academics
Student Attrition
- Many obstacles that FGS students face contribute to student attrition. Student retention is an important metric of student success. Inadequate student support is one of the general factors of attrition. Student attrition is also related to academic boredom, anxiety, lack of academic preparation, social isolation, finances, self-doubt, struggling to navigate higher education termin…
Effective Strategies
- Recognize obstacles that first generation students may face and allow flexibility as appropriate.
- Create clear, simple and measurable course learning outcomes. Create measurable weekly learning objectives. Connect course activities and assessments to outcomes and objectives.
- Learn the names of students in your course and use names when addressing students. Try t…
- Recognize obstacles that first generation students may face and allow flexibility as appropriate.
- Create clear, simple and measurable course learning outcomes. Create measurable weekly learning objectives. Connect course activities and assessments to outcomes and objectives.
- Learn the names of students in your course and use names when addressing students. Try to get to know everyone in the course so that each person in your course feels valued. Ask students to share i...
- If you are first generation student, share that you are a first generation student with your students early in your course. Consider sharing your experiences with class.
Additional Resources
- Cal State LA. First-Generation Students Checklist
- Inside Higher Education. Teaching First-Generation Latinx Students
- MiraCosta College. Teaching First Generation College Students Guidebook
- Stanford University. Faculty Voices on Promoting First-Generation College Student Academic Success
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