To be able to have a course site that meets your instructional goals, it is recommended that faculty use an instructional design method. The simple course site design steps below may be helpful in setting up a Blackboard course site.
- Analyse - Be aware of your students' general background, knowledge and their technology skills. Identify what type of computer your students might have.
- Plan - Think of and list all documents you want on your course site. Create a flowchart to map out the organization of the course content.
- Develop - Start uploading the contents, modifying tools, creating assignments and tests.
- Implement - Deliver the contents you have developed and conduct the class activities.
- Evaluate - Conduct the regular testing of you course site. Test all the links to make sure they all work. Update the information and check the links and documents regularly to make sure they all still work correctly
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Posted on November 10, 2009
Attention Blackboard 9 Pilot Users (Downtime for Bb 9)
On Thursday, November 12th, Blackboard 9 will be down for maintenance from 9:30pm until 11:00pm and therefore unavailable to Bb 9 pilot participants. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Posted on October 30, 2009
Winter 2010 Course Creation in Blackboard 9
All courses scheduled for Winter 2010 Quarter will be automatically created in Blackboard 9 (Bb 9) Pilot environment by November 3rd at 5 p.m. Please note that Winter 2010 Quarter student enrollment will not occur until the Blackboard quarterly maintenance. For details, please see Blackboard 9 Migration section.
Posted on May 8, 2009
Blackboard 9 Upgrade
Blackboard has released Version 9 with many new and improved features. And Cal Poly Pomona will be upgrading our Blackboard environment to this new version, Bb9, starting in Summer in a limited, pilot test mode. During the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 Quarters pilot testing of Blackboard 9 will continue while most of the courses are taught in the current version. If all goes well with the testing, all courses will be migrated to the new version in time for the Spring 2010 Quarter. Please review "What's New in Bb9" for a brief summary of the new features.
Posted on September 2, 2008
Blackboard Weekly Maintenance
Effective beginning April 5th, Blackboard weekly maintenance, which performs weekly course backups, will move from Sunday 2:00 a.m. to 4:15 a.m. to Saturday from 2:00 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. During this weekly scheduled time, Blackboard will not be available.
As far as the Blackboard 9 Pilot weekly course backups, it is scheduled on every Saturday from 1:00 a.m to 3:30 a.m. During this scheduled time, Blackboard 9 Pilot will not be available also.
Posted on March 13, 2008
Other Possible System Maintenance
Campus networks and services may experience maintenance outages between 5:00 a.m. and 8:00 a.m. on Sundays and between 9:30 p.m. and midnight on Thursdays. These outages may affect Blackboard. For more information, see the Alerts, Status, and Maintenance. http://www.csupomona.edu/~ehelp/
alerts.html