Do Group Projects and Presentations
Online Alternatives for Group Projects
Create Groups in Blackboard
Use Blackboard’s Group tool to create an online collaborative space for students to work.
Provide text or audio feedback through Blackboard.
Humber Resource: Create and Manage Groups
Blackboard Help: Breakout Groups
Blackboard Help: Collaborate Ultra Help for Participants
Use Google Suite of Apps for Education
Students can collaborate using Google’s suite of apps (e.g. Slides, Docs, Sheets, Sites, Jamboard, Hangouts (videoconference))
Students can submit links to Google files through the Assignment in Blackboard.
Students can give the instructor commenting access to their work to receive feedback.
If you are unfamiliar with using Google Docs, here’s a resource by Stephanie Hedge on Teaching with Google Docs
How to do Group Presentations Online
Have students do presentations through Blackboard Collaborate Ultra
Promote them to “Presenter” status while they are presenting.
If they need to show a video, have them provide the link to the video for people to watch, rather than stream over Blackboard Collaborate Ultra.
Consider having the presentation be a Discussion forum instead
Have the group “presenting” responsible for the discussion forum about their topic.
The group can post any videos, slides, etc in the discussion forum and then respond to classmates questions/feedback.
Online alternative activities for in-class discussions
Create Discussion Forums in Blackboard
Blackboard Overview Video (2.5 minutes): Use Discussions in the Original Course View
Blackboard Help: Create Discussions
Humber resources: How to Build a Discussion Forum
Create a Padlet Board
Padlet Help: Getting Started
University of Westminster video: Using Padlet
Russell Stannard’s Teacher Training Videos: Padlet 2019-A full introduction to Padlet
Teacher’s Tech video: Learn Padlet
Create a Flipgrid Topic
Consider creating a Topic in Flipgrid: post a discussion prompt or conversation starter and students respond to the prompt and to each other through short videos.
Flipgrid Help: Getting started with Flipgrid