Blackboard Tools > Learning Units

A Learning Unit can be thought of as a folder. This is a container to hold content. The difference between a folder and a learning unit is the ability to "enforce sequential viewing". If you highlight this option when creating the learning unit the end user will only be able to walk through your content in the order that you have specified.

To Create a Learning Unit
Login to your course site and click on "Control Panel" and then browse to the content area where you'd like to begin adding your learning unit. In the upper right hand corner of the screen click on the dropdown menu and select "Learning Unit" and then click "Go".

Provide a name and description for the Learning Unit and then specify the availability options for the learning unit itself.

The Learning Unit specific availability options are "enforce sequential" viewing and "open in new window".

If you enforce sequential viewing user accounts will be forced to walk through the lesson in the order that you post your content. This provides a nice way for instructors to walk students through a lesson without giving them the ability to skip around to different content.

If you set the learning unit to open in new window the learning unit itself will open in a browser on top of the Blackboard course site. That way a user can easily browse around, close the window when they are finished, and still be logged in to the Blackboard site.

In addition to content you can also append a quiz onto the end of a learning unit. This provides you with a learning module that will walk your student through a series of content items that make up a lesson, then append a quiz onto the end of that lesson to immediately assess their retention of the concepts and information presented in the materials.

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Related FAQ's

Q: I sent an e-mail message via the "Send Mail" tool and I received an error message back stating that the message was not delivered to a few of my students - whats wrong?

When we create blackboard accounts for students we use the UIC e-mail address as the default address associated with their account. If students do not use this address or if they have set their account to use another e-mail address that is no longer active you will receive a message stating that the mail could not be delivered. In order to fix this the students in question must login and set their Blackboard e-mail account to a valid, active account. Any Blackboard user can change this themselves by logging in and clicking the MY UIC tab on the main login page and then the "Personal Information" link.

Q: Can I edit a students submitted assignment and then send it back to them using the "Assignment Manager"?

You can edit a students submitted assignment and then send it back to them using the assignment manager. In order to do this you must login and access the students assignment by clicking on the "Grabebook". Once you are in the gradebook find the assignment in question that the student submitted and click on the exclamation point and then the button labeled "View". To view the assignment click on the link to the file.

In order to edit it you must make your edits and then save the file on your own hard drive before re-attaching a file to send back to them.

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