Blackboard

Documentation/How-Tos:

What is It?

Blackboard is an integrated suite of online tools for secured online course websites. Among the many capabilities, NC State faculty use it to:

• • • Distribute digital versions of course content via content areas

    • Link to and embed web content

    • Publish recorded supplemental lecture material

    • Publish secured student grades to individual students in real time

    • Allow students to submit assignments electronically

    • Offer secure, automated, self grading quizzes and tests(formative or sumative)

    • Interact with the instructor and classmates via secured discussion boards

    • Collect on the fly anonymous class surveys

and more. Primarily, Blackboard is used to "enhance" regular face to face NC State courses, but it is also used as a platform for "Hybrid" (part online and part regular face to face meetings) courses and fully online courses.

What Access do We Have to it at NC State?

All NC State course sections offered each quarter have a Blackboard course site automatically created for it. These Blackboard course sites are not made automatically available to students, but rather each faculty member has to manually make each course site available to their students (PDF printer friendly instructions | Narrated video tutorial instructions - 2 minutes, 26 seconds) for that section each quarter.

See also: How Access to Blackboard Works Overview (PDF)

How do I Get Started With It?

• Dive Right In!

  • Grab the Faculty How to Login to Blackboard PDF and start playing! Use the Blackboard Documentation as needed...

  • (Contact the DL Department if you encounter problems with your userid or password or you get stuck: 419.545.0808 | dl@ncstatecollege.edu)

• Take a Workshop or  1on1 Consult

• Check the Live Faculty Training Schedule. or contact the DL Department to setup a 1 on 1 consult: 419.545.0808 or dl@ncstatecollege.edu 

• Figure Out Where/How It Would be a Good Fit First

  • Use the Case Studies below and or the procedures for How/Where to Start with Technology to determine your objective with your first Blackboard implementation. Then use  the Blackboard Documentation or a Live Workshop or 1on1 Consult (419.545.0808 or dl@ncstatecollege.edu) to figure out how to make your implementation for your needs.

Related Trainings:

• • • Blackboard 101

    • Blackboard Boot Camps

    • Blackboard Open Labs

    • Using Blackboard to Communicate Higher Expectations

    • Using Blackboard to Enhance Learning Faculty Learning Community

    • Using Blackboard to Increase Active Learning

    • Using Blackboard to Increase Faculty-Student Communication

    • Using Blackboard to Increase Prompt Feedback

    • Using Blackboard to Increase Student to Student Communication

    • Using Blackboard to Improve Student Time on Task

    • Using Blackboard to Support Diverse Student Talents

See when these are scheduled to be offered next at the Live Faculty Training Schedule.

Alternately, contact the DL Department to setup a 1 on 1 consult: 419.545.0808 or dl@ncstatecollege.edu 

All Blackboard documentation

External Resources:

Case Studies/Scholarship:

• • • Top 10 Ways NC State Students Say Blackboard Has Enhanced Their Learning (Spring 2010) - PDF

• • Utilizing Blackboard to Enhance Learning Outcomes, Performance Evaluation & Accountability in ECE119

  • -Heiden Eichorn, Adjunct Instructor, Early Childhood

• • Improving Student Self Reflection & Assessment in a Clinical Setting via Video with Blackboard

  • - Jen Phenicie, Asst. Professor, Early Childhood

• • Using Blackboard as a Tool in the Blended Learning Model

  • -Amy Tyree, Adjunct Instructor, Biology

Local Experts:

• • • Suzanne Carmack,BUS/FIN

    • scarmack@ncstatecollege.edu | Fallerius

    • Heiden Eichorn, Early Childhood 

    • heichorn@ncstatecollege.edu | Fallerius

    • Carolyn Kaple, Nursing,

    • ckaple@ncstatecollege.edu | 240 Health Sciences

    • Bob Lewis, PSY

    • rlewis@ncstatecollege.edu | 219C Bromfield

    • Carmen Morrison, CIS,

    • cmorrison@ncstatecollege.edu | 163 Kehoe

    • Jen Phenecie, ECE,

    • jphenecie@ncstatecollege.edu | Fallerius

    • Paul SIlinsky, PHY/ENR,

    • psilinsky@ncstatecollege.edu | Kehoe