UNSW Blackboard Staff Support

• Glossary of Blackboard elements
• UNSW Blackboard overview
• Course home page
• Planning course structure and design  
• Setting Edit Mode ON
• The course menu—creating content area links
• The course menu—creating tool links
• Content areas—adding items and tools
• Content areas—editing items
• The Control Panel
• Course home page settings
• Using modules
• Customising your course style and tools
• Setting your course availability and duration
• What's new in Blackboard 9.1

• Course site administration—creating and updating sites
• User roles
• Working with templates
• Recycling course content each semester
• Downloading student data from your course

• Setting up your computer
• Logging in and finding your way around Blackboard

• Manual migration overview
• Respondus support

• Analysing your students’ needs 
• Starting with the learning outcomes
• Building graduate capabilities 
• Course schedule planning
• Resources planning
• Student workload planning

• Online assessments 
• Group assessment tasks—planning 
• Lesson plans
• Online learning activities 
• Assessing online participation

• The default menu
• Blackboard templates
• Alternative menu structures
• Organising content—folders or learning modules?

• Preparing your students for online learning
• Communicating with students
• Providing feedback
• Managing your workload

• Reviewing your design
• Design Review Checklist

• Tools to help you facilitate your course

• Blackboard tools overview
• Using modules

Keeping Students Informed

Enhancing Communication

Storing and Presenting Content

Student Collaboration

Assessing Learners

Keeping Students On Track

• Design Review checklist
• Pre-Semester checklist
• End of Semester checklist

• UNSW Blackboard staff user group