 Getting Started—Faculty
What is Blackboard?
Blackboard is a web-based integrated
teaching and learning environment. Course site development
and navigation is accomplished through a consistent
and easy-to-use web browser user interface. The advantage
of Blackboard is that it requires no knowledge of html
and allows you to build a customized course site. Any
instructor can request a course site for their class.
We recommend using Blackboard since
you can utilize the following features:
- Customized navigation and design
- Announcement posting
- Discussion forums — group or individual
- Assignment submission – including safe assignment plagiarism tool
- Quizzing
- Gradebook
Requesting a Blackboard Site
Training
If you are new to BlackBoard, you
and your TA(s) need to schedule a training session.
To get information on future training sessions, contact
Lindsey
Bruso or Julie
Kong. In addition, the Instructional Technology
Lab (ITL) at UIC offers personalized training for faculty.
Faculty can make an appointment with ITL online at:
http://www.uic.edu/depts/accc/itl/rsvp.html.
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