Blackboard

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Blackboard

• Products Update

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Agenda

• Product integration Plan
• Which solution for the WebCT customers
• Update on Blackboard Learning System CE
• The Blackboard Solution
• Blackboard Community System
• Blackboard Content System
• Blackboard Outcomes System
• Blackboard Services
• QA Session

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Product Integration Plan
Phase II
Phase I
Phase IV
Phase III
Phase V
Bb Learning Sys
Next Generation Learning System (single code
base)
common API
Evaluation System (Proj Caliper)
PortalSystem (Community Sys)
NEW
WebCT Learning Sys (CE 6 Vista)
common API
Content System
------------------------------------ Bb Learning
Sys Development -----------------------?
---------------------- WebCT Campus Edition /
Vista Development ------------------?
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Engagement, Assessment Openness
ACADEMIC
Research Wiki Assessment Library
Portfolio
OPEN SERVICES
OPEN APIs
Portal Commerce ERP SIS
ADMINISTRATIVE
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Course Management

• Offer courses with online components
• Offer fully-online courses

• Improve instructor efficiency and optimize use of
  face-to-face time
• Encourage student-driven learning and remediation
• Build general education skills through group
  projects

• Extend the reach of your institution
• Provide flexibility for adult learners and
  millennial students
• Create new revenue streams

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Blackboard Learning System CE

• Application Pack 1 in July 2006
• Innovation Tools like Journals, Blogs, Peer
  Rating, Roster Tool, Rubrics, etc
• Possibility to get access to the new portfolio
  product
• Scholar Building Block in December 2006
• Application Pack 2 in July 2007
• Parity issues with CE4 (Export/Import Glossary,
  Statistics for surveys or tests)
• A lot issues fixed in this App Pack 2
• Some nice features for the administrators
  (Queries by enrolments)
• Safe Assign Building Block in July 2007
• Application Pack 3 in July 2007 called the
  Learning Environment Collector
• Can connect CE4 CE6 and Vista 4 customers to
• Community System
• Community Content System
• Community, Content Outcomes Systems

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Centrally-hosted web properties make the power
of the Blackboard client network useful to
faculty, students and administrators in their
everyday teaching, learning and
research. Featuring
Free Social Bookmarking for Education

• Find and share educationally valuable resources
  on the web
• Work seamlessly with Blackboard Learning System
  products

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Engage through the community network
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New Scholar Social Network
Subject to change without notice
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Assess through the community network
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• New plagiarism prevention service by Blackboard
• Integrated with the Blackboard Learning System
  (Enterprise, CE Enterprise and Vista Enterprise
  Licenses)
• Powerful Algorithm and Comprehensive set of
  databases with billions of source material
• Interactive Originality Report for each paper
• Opt-In Global Database
• Its Included.

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Suspected Sources
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Student-Centered Learning

• Enable students to connect their learning
  experiences, deepening engagement
• Facilitate thoughtful review of student-generated
  materials

• Encourage reflection on personal learning paths
• Create active learning opportunities through
  authoring, feedback, and revision cycles

• Determine and track program requirements and
  completion
• Enable student assessment at higher levels of
  cognition

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Why using the Blackboard Portfolio?

• Do you want your students/Teachers to reflect on
  their personal development?
• Do you want to give them full control to their
  portfolio and to be able to share with other
  users inside or outside the institution?
• Do you want them to be able to get feedback from
  other students/Teachers/other people?
• Do you want them to save their course artifacts
  directly to their portfolios?

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Why using the Blackboard Portfolio

• Reflection on personal developments
• Tight integration with a WebCT course
• Full control to the owner
• Reflection Feedback

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Academic Services Collaboration

• Engage students in collaboration with peers,
  faculty, and the community outside the classroom
• Provide convenient one-stop access to student
  services and coursework
• Preserve unique identities online

• Create meaningful connections improving retention
  and student success

• Focus time on teaching, learning and research
• Increase student satisfaction through timely,
  relevant information and services
• Lighten the load on webmasters, academic
  computing, and IT staff

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Why Using the Community System?

• Do you need to publish information based on the
  role of a user?
• Ex a student from a specific department needs to
  access to different kinds of information than a
  student/teacher from another department
• Do you need to communicate to specific
  groups/communities outside course level?
• Do you need to manage several entry pages or
  several look Feel, brandings? 
• Do you need to provide a seamless integration
  with 3rd Party application?

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What to remember about Blackboard Community System

• One stop service / Role based delivery
• Communication Collaboration outside course
  level
• Managing look feel Branding
• Integration with 3rd Party Application

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Academic Content Management, e-Portfolios,
Secure Web Drives

• Exceed the expectations of todays wired students
  and adult learners

• Offer secure access to personal, course, and
  institutional content
• Facilitate group projects with shared work
  building teamwork skills

• Improve quality and efficiency of instruction by
  sharing and reusing learning resources
• Save team time managing iterations of documents

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Why using Blackboard Content System?

• Do you need to centralize contents for an
  efficient deployment to several sections/courses?
• Do you need to provide virtual hard drive to
  different population of students/Teachers/Users?
• Do you need to engage in active learning,
  focusing on attaining skills and core
  competencies?
• Do you need to demonstrate specific competencies
  and achievement of learning outcomes of your
  students?

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What to remember about Blackboard Content System?

• Effective Content Management (Versioning,
  Pass,Web Folder, Meta data, Workflow) through
  central repositories
• Virtual Hard Drive
• Enable Students/Teachers Collaboration
• An efficient tool for sharing personal
  reflections demonstrating competencies

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Content and Community for CE / Vista
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CE / Vista channels in the Community System

• Branding and customisation options instead of
  MyWebCT page!
• Role based delivery and ownership of content.
• Direct access to CE/Vista information.
• Integrated administration.

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New Tab Structure, Familiar Course Capabilities

• Once inside the course environment, things will
  look very familiar!
• Course tools, including Menus, Calendars,
  Discussions, Search, etc. are the same
• Note the Blackboard tab architecture remains
  across the top, allowing access to other areas of
  the Blackboard Academic Suite.

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New! Integrated Content Picker for CE6 and Vista

• Users can still link to items in My Files as well
  as items on their hard drives.
• A new option includes Content Collection, which
  allows users to link to items stored on the
  Blackboard Content System.

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Institutional Assessment

• Support academic and administrative assessment
  processes
• Comprehensive toolset integrated with your
  academic technology

• Improve visibility
• Connect decentralized assessment efforts for
  wider impact
• Develop better assessments through sharing of
  best practices

• Facilitate a culture of assessment by making it
  easier and better understood
• Collect and evaluate student work
• Survey attitudes and interests
• Manage departmental improvement projects

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Educational Institutions Want to Understand their
Effectiveness

• Inquiry for Improvement
• Inquiry for Accountability
• Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes
• Examples
• Curriculum Design
• Classroom Assessment
• Quality Initiatives
• Regular Programme Reviews
• Strategic Planning
• Regional Accreditation
• Specialised Accreditation
• Institutional Research

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Assessment is About Continuous Improvement

• PLAN
• Plan department objectives
• Plan program learning outcomes
• Plan course objectives
• Define measurement methods
• Establish rubrics
• Discussions

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Getting more impact from assessment activity

• Curriculum maps
• Identifies gaps and redundancies in curriculum
• Inform other departments about relationships
• Document relationships between program outcomes
  and course outcomes

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Assessment is About Continuous Improvement

• PLAN
• Plan department objectives
• Plan program learning outcomes
• Plan course objectives
• Define measurement methods
• Establish rubrics
• Discussions

• MEASURE
• Survey employers
• Interview students
• Collect examples of student work
• Run course evaluations
• Construct portfolios

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Eliminate barriers to embracing a culture of
evidence

• Surveys
• Learn from on-campus and off-campus stakeholders
  via this email-based solution
• Align questions with standards, goals, and
  objectives
• Built-in flexible analysis and reporting

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Assessment is About Continuous Improvement

• PLAN
• Plan department objectives
• Plan program learning outcomes
• Plan course objectives
• Define measurement methods
• Establish rubrics
• Discussions

• MEASURE
• Survey employers
• Interview students
• Collect examples of student work
• Run course evaluations
• Construct portfolios

• IMPROVE
• Review survey results
• Look for demographic trends on data
• Discussions
• Develop program change recommendations

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Eliminate barriers to embracing a culture of
evidence

• Reports
• Make evidence-based decisions
• Common questions answered in standard reports
• From across departments
• Linking planned outcomes and measured outcomes
• Custom reports via services
• Export for deeper analysis

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Assessment is About Continuous Improvement

• PLAN
• Plan department objectives
• Plan program learning outcomes
• Plan course objectives
• Define measurement methods
• Establish rubrics
• Discussions

• MEASURE
• Survey employers
• Interview students
• Collect examples of student work
• Run course evaluations
• Construct portfolios

CYCLE

• IMPROVE
• Review survey results
• Look for demographic trends on data
• Discussions
• Develop program change recommendations

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Multiple levels of quality assurance

• Strategic planning, institutional research,
  institutional audits.

Intended outcomes
Measured outcomes

• Programme review, curriculum planning,
  discipline-specific accreditation, course design

• Course development, testing, assignments,
  portfolios, course re-design

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What to remember about Blackboard Outcomes System?

• Assessment initiatives inside your institution
• Curriculum Design
• Classroom Assessment
• Quality Initiatives
• Regular Programme Reviews
• Strategic Planning
• Regional Accreditation
• Specialised Accreditation
• Institutional Research
• Better Visibility of the initiatives that are
  running in your institution
• Control the student learning outcomes

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Blackboard Services
Accelerate and deepen your success while focusing
on your core competencies
Trusted Advisors

• Consulting Services
• Address your institutions unique mission
  imperatives
• Comprehensive from strategic analysis to project
  management to technical integration
• Efficient and expert custom applications
  development

• Training and Professional Development
• Offerings to improve quality
• Train your trainers
• Create power users
• Application Service Provider (ASP)
• Manage the infrastructure
• Reduce the burden on your IT staff
• Provide capacity for growth

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Using Services to help managing your installation

• Installation of WebCT CE6
• WebCT shall remotely (with respect to Client
  site) install all Target Application components
  for a single, non-clustered instance on Clients
  hardware.  In addition, WebCT shall hold a
  pre-service call to plan for the installation,
  and shall conclude the service by providing
  Client with documentation that shall detail the
  installation
• Health Check of WebCT CE6
• Blackboard Services will connect remotely and
  will verify the right installation of the server.
• Campus Edition Production System Mentoring
• WebCT shall provide one (1) consultant for this
  onsite service, to provide mentoring to the
  Clients technical management, and system
  administration staff tasked with monitoring and
  maintaining Clients Target Application
  installation.  This mentoring will focus on those
  topic areas which are of most importance to
  Client  and may include
• Migration process
• WebCT Technical Services will assist customers by
  migrating a WebCT installation from one server to
  another or a WebCT installation from a very early
  Version. We strongly recommend that customers
  seek assistance for this process instead of
  attempting it on their own.A migration is
  defined as the moving of WebCT course content and
  the WebCT global/course databases intact, from
  one WebCT server to another and/or from a very
  early release of WebCT.
• SIS integration
• This will depend if you want some assistance to
  help you understanding how to do the integration
  or if you want us to provide a customized service
  engagement to help you to finalize your SIS
  integration. For the second case,  we need to do
  a scope call with your team to see wha you are
  using and iuntil which extend we can help you.For
  the first item, we provide a standard service
  Blackboard SIS Integration Design Service

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Face to Face Training

•  CE Administration - 1 day
• One daye Face to face Training about the
  Administration in CE6
•  CE Essentials - 2 days
• Two days Face to face workshops - introduces
  users to all of the designing and teaching
  features in the Blackboard Learning System - CE.
• CE Educational Development Program 4,5 days
• CE Administration 2 days
• CE Essentials 1 days
• Program Plan Development (including report
  follow-up) 1,5 days

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About Blackboard Training Online Courses

• System Administrators
• Blackboard Learning System CE License
  Administrator Certification
• One week in duration
• Comprehensive GUI course
• Suitable for replacement administrators and
  clients who are in need of more flexible training
  offerings
• Faculty, Teachers, Staff, Course
  Developers/Designers
• Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise
  License Blackboard Learning System Vista
  Enterprise License
• Product Specialist Program
• Part I Designing Your Course
• Part II Teaching Your Course
• Part III Creating and Managing Assignments and
  Assessments
• Each course is one week in duration

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Online Training Solutions Administration Courses

• Blackboard Learning System Administrator
  Certification Series
• Comprised of two courses
• Blackboard Learning System GUI Administrator
  Certification
• Blackboard Learning System Server Administrator
  Certification
• Suitable for replacement administrators and
  clients who are in need of more flexible training
  offerings
• Blackboard Learning System CE License
  Administrator Certification
• One week in duration
• Comprehensive GUI course
• Suitable for replacement administrators and
  clients who are in need of more flexible training
  offerings

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About Blackboard Training Materials

• Face-to-Face Training Package
• Can be used for faculty and staff training
  initiatives
• Training curriculum for workshops that can be
  conducted in 2-3 hour segments by a training
  contact at an institution
• Modular format allows institutions to select
  workshops that best meet the needs of faculty and
  staff at various points in the adoption lifecycle
  (i.e., Getting Started, Making the Most of
  Discussions)
• Includes workshop agendas, presentations,
  manuals, and demonstration course
• Online Training Package
• Can be used for faculty and staff training
  initiatives
• Consists of three online training courses that
  can be delivered in an asynchronous format,
  allowing faculty and staff to flexibly
  participate in training opportunities

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Support Help Desk Services
Bandwidth Storage Servers
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Hosting Solutions
WebCT Shared Hosting
WebCT Dedicated Hosting Additional Unit
WebCT Dedicated Hosting for 8,000 Users

• Description
• Shared hosting Environment for CE 6 or Vista
• Oracle Standard Edition
• 99.7 uptime
• Subscription Users Levels
• 500
• 1000
• 1500
• 2000
• 2500
• 3000
• 3500

• Description
• Intel Xeon Multiprocessor Application and
  Database Servers
• Oracle Standard Edition
• 200 GB of Storage with RMAN
• 512 Kbps of Bandwidth
• 99.7 Availability SLA
• Advantages
• Custom integrations
• Portfolio hosting
• Choose maintenance
• Choose Version
• Time zone

• Description
• Additional Intel Xeon Multiprocessor Application
  Server
• System Administration Server for application
  load-balancing
• Oracle Standard Edition as necessary
• Additional 100 GB of Storage
• Additional 512 Kbps of Bandwidth
• Up to 7,500 Users per Unit
• 99.7 Availability SLA

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