Presentation from the Faculty eLearning team outlining plans for the transition from Blackboard Vista to Bb9 for the School of Arts, Histories & Cultures. 16/02/2011

1. Making the move to Bb9.1 in SAHC Catherine Booth Assistant eLearning Manager Faculty of Humanities eLearning team

2. Your School pilots Who is already using Bb9 to support students?

4. CLAH21262/31262 The Poetry of Ovid (Alison Sharrock)

5. DRAM20022 Transnational Chinese Cinemas (Felicia Chan)

6. HIST20182 European Intellectual History: Rousseau to Freud (Stuart Jones)

9. Enhanced File Management

10. Media rich content and assessments

11. Improved student performance monitoring

12. Email direct to students

14. More control over the course menu

15. Using items to build up content

16. Drag and drop items around

17. Set your own home page/entry point

19. Organise on computer, then upload as a batch

20. Structure remains the same

22. Adding external content

23. YouTube, SlideShare, Flickr

24. Wiki

25. Simplified Blackboard Wiki

26. Easier to use

28. YouTube

29. Calculated formula

30. Opinion scale/Likert

31. HotSpot

32. Quiz Bowl

34. Smart views

35. Tailored view of student progress, e.g. students who scored less than 60 on Week 1 quiz

36. Performance Dashboard

37. Notifications/early warning/tracking

39. Sharing content across the University

40. Community

41. Provide personalised and targeted information to students integrated with the current portal

44. Consistency for students: feedback has been that different navigations and different terms are confusing

45. Support for staff in meeting minimum requirements

46. Additional resources for both staff and students

49. Product development by supplier

50. eLearning Strategy Goal 2 advancing Manchester 2015 Agenda

51. Ongoing investment in eLearning high priority

52. Beyond Bb9 – considers whole MLE framework

54. Access it from www.manchester.ac.uk/portal

55. Click ‘Teaching and Research’tab

56. In the ‘My Courses’portlet, you will see all your courses: Blackboard Vista 8 and/or Bb9: Current, Future and Ended Courses(Option to add ‘My Organisations’ portlet) Little person icon= Blackboard Vista 8 course Bb9 icon = Bb9 course

58. The main difference is that they have a ‘My Studies’ tab (in place of the staff ‘Teaching and Research’tab)Portal: students

60. Definitely for 2011:

61. Programme level spaces

62. Delivery date tbc:

64. Please activate it today - but we will use it to support the Practical Workshops so don’t play too much!

66. How to make the transition Support for the School in Making the Move to Bb9?

68. All Schools have timeslots between now and July to move content, re-using from Blackboard Vista 8 to Bb9

69. eLearning team will provide a range of support, presentations, workshops, drop-ins

70. Academics rebuild courses in Bb9 with content from their computers or content downloaded from BbV8

71. Other activities working with Schools to:

72. Develop SCS

75. Get to know Bb9 using the Playground and online support

76. Wait until your transition date and we will send an email directing you to the Transition Wizard

77. Activate your courses for Bb9

79. http://ondemand.blackboard.com

80. Knowledge Base articles:

81. http://www.manchester.ac.uk/servicedesk

82. Screen cast of a presentation delivered by Blackboard in June:

83. http://www.campus.manchester.ac.uk/elearning/resources/mle_webinars.html

84. MLE Highlights: information about Blackboard 9.1 and the MLE Project, including more information about Mobile Learn and Mobile Central