The document describes how to use i-SMS, an interactive SMS tool in Blackboard, to communicate with students via SMS. It explains how to start an i-SMS session to receive student messages and how to switch the session to polling to ask students multiple choice, true/false, or yes/no questions. The polls included sample questions about features in Blackboard like SafeAssignment and Wimba tools.

1. i-SMS (Interactive SMS) Presented by : Sally Loan

2. Launch i-SMS Access any course Click “Communications”

3. Launch i-SMS Click “SMS Messaging Tool” Click “Interactive SMS”

4. Start the i-SMS session Click “Start Session” E.g. student enter the message on phone 302 Can you give some example of problem-based learning?

5. To switch to voting session Click “Vote”, “Start Poll”

6. Check out Educational Technologies @ LaunchPad http://www.cel.nie.edu.sg/launchpad/etsupport/GeNIEus_isms.htm?page=GeNIEus

7. Voting (T/F) Safe Assignment is a plagiarism tools in GeNIEus (Blackboard)? “T” or “t” for True “F” or “f” for False

8. Voting (Y/N) You can send SMS via GeNIEus (Blackboard)? “Y” or “y” for Yes “N” or “n” for No

9. Voting (MCQ) Which software allows you to create the test/survey questions offline and upload to GeNIEus (Blackboard)? “A” or “a”: Wimba Voice Tools “B” or “b”: Respondus “C” or “c”: Hot Potatoes “D” or “d”: Quandary

10. Voting (MCQ) Which feature is used for plagiarism checking in GeNIEus (Blackboard)? “A” or “a”: Digital Dropbox “B” or “b”: Assignment “C” or “c”: SafeAssignment “D” or “d”: Test

11. Voting (MCQ) Which one is not the Wimba feature? “A” or “a”: Wimba Pronto “B” or “b”: Wimba Voice “C” or “c”: Wimba Classroom “D” or “d”: Wimba Music