Teaching your first Blackboard/WebCT CE 6 Course

Riverside Community College is upgrading to Blackboard/WebCT CE 6 for the winter session and will be completely switched over by January 7, 2008. Open Campus is currently migrating WebCT CE 4.1 online, hybrid, and web-enhanced courses to the new courseware. Contact Open Campus by filling out the CE 6 Development Migration form in the left navigation bar under Faculty Links.

If you are teaching a winter 2008 course and you have not attended a CE 6 training session yet, please contact Open Campus for information. There are online tutorials available below. If you'd like to be automatically alerted when new tutorials are added, subcribe to the CE 6 Tutorials RSS Feed.

the Teach tab

About the Home Page in Blackboard/WebCT CE 6:
The homepage layout contains three tabs at the top: Build, Teach, and Student View. The Build tab is used by the designer to set up the tools to be used and to upload course content files. Tools are located on the left side of the of the screen.

The instructor interface is on the Teach tab. This tab view contains tools and features used to present course material, to communicate with students, and to evaluate and grade their work.

Course Tools. Course tools are all of the content, organizational, communication, and evaluation tools that a designer has added. A designer uses these tools to create content and learning activities. As the Section Instructor, you use these tools to present content and learning activities to students. Students use these tools to view content and perform learning activities. If new content become available in course tools, a New items available icon appears next to each tool. If a tool is hidden from students, the link is marked with (H) and does not appear for students.

Designer/Instructor Tools. Instructor tools can include the following:

  • Manage Course. You use the Manage Course area to add, hide, show, or remove tools. You can also manage the course menu, edit tool settings, and customize course appearance.
    • Assessment Manager. If available, you use Assessment Manager to deliver assessments, including quizzes, surveys, and self tests, to students. You can also view and mark quizzes completed by students.
    • Assignment Dropbox. If available, you use Assignment Dropbox to view and mark assignments submitted by students. You can also return assignments to students if you want them to revise their original submission.
    • Grade Book. You use Grade Book to view, enter, and manage grades for students.
    • Group Manager. You can use Group Manager to place students into groups if you want them to work collaboratively.
    • Tracking. You use Tracking to create reports on various student activities in the course.
    • Selective Release. You can use Selective Release to control the release of content and specific items in a course. For example, you can release an assignment to certain students only.

The course menu is the area on the left side of the CE 6 setup and is the primary navigation feature in a Blackboard/WebCT CE 6 course. You can use the course menu to access all tools and content in a course. When you access a tool or content, it appears in the content display area in the center of the screen. You view and work with tools and content in this area. Your current location in a course appears in the breadcrumbs at the top of the screen. Breadcrumbs also list the path of screens that you have visited. You can click a breadcrumb to return to a previous screen.

The Student View tab contains features that you use to preview and
test a course.

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