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Reflective Journal 4

Topics Covered:

This module was all about building our lesson into the Blackboard LMS.

Overview / Summary of Topics:
  • Building lesson folder
  • Including lesson introduction and objectives
  • Creating sections for lesson chunks
  • Building tests
  • Setting up a discussion board
  • Building Rubrics
  • Creating course links

Item of Interest:
I think I found most interest in making sure that everything worked properly. No broken links, internal links went to the correct page, etc. I am a little bit of a perfectionist, so I probably went through my final course about ten times and made adjustments each time. Hoping I got it right!

Areas of Help or Clarification:
The act of building the tests was a little tricky and it is definitely not something I could have figured out without the how-to video, so I am thankful for that. I think I figured it out though.

Comments

  1. Ronda NicholsonMarch 26, 2020 at 9:58 AM

    Hi Amber, I really enjoyed with Blackboard Coursesites. I do agree with you that building the tests was tricky, especially the part of "pulling from the pool." The video's were helpful; thank goodness we had them. Thank you Professor Gale! I built a website in the past so I probably added more content than was needed for this lesson; however, I felt like I needed to provide "my imaginary students" with enough detail for complete understanding. I used the preview mode numerous times to make sure my information was clear enough that most anyone could understand it. At this point, I feel like I am ready to build a course and teach it. I am super excited to see what we learn from the capstone class.

    Ronda Nicholson

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  2. JenniferMarch 28, 2020 at 10:35 AM

    Hi Amber! I also enjoyed going back and looking over the folders and materials created.
    I am going to say this hoping my tests turned out as they should, but the test generator was not that difficult for me. This is possibly due to the classes I am currently teaching have been transformed to online as everyone else in our state. I use Canvas, which in my opinion is more user friendly, and have been creating tests through that LMS. There are differences between the two, but I feel the current experience I've had with that helped me some with building the test in Blackboard. If you would like to ever meet on Zoom, I will do my best to help in any way possible. Again, I hesitated in saying all of that since my Blackboard assignment hasn't been graded yet. I'm hoping the randomized pooling worked for me. :)
    Take care and I kind of miss talking with you. Our Zoom meetings might have been a little stressful in that class, but we definitely gained connections.

    Jennifer Ryan

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  3. SusanMarch 29, 2020 at 3:52 PM

    Hello Amber! The multiple choice test was an item I had to go back an work on. I actually missed the Randomize option my first try but after going back and editing the test and selecting the Randomize option, the pool questions worked appropriately. I found Blackboard fairly easy to use and the video tutorials were a big help. I hope to get a chance to create another lesson in Blackboard soon and use more of the tools and become more familiar with Blackboard.

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