   New Look and Course Themes Now with its cleaner look, you will see only the tools you need by hovering over the item you want to modify. You can also change the “skin” of an individual course by changing its course theme.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvqGbjN6_Dk&feature=youtu.be (1:58)
Course to Course Navigation You can now move from course to course within a course
rather than having to go through the modules page. Because you will go to the
same area in the next course, you can move easily from one Grade Center to the
next, one Assignments section to the next, etc.
http://ondemand.blackboard.com/r91/movies/bb91_tools_course_to_course_nav.htm (1:32)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmAb8V4vlRc&feature=youtu.be (1:16)
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Content Management System
Content Management will provide better and easier sharing of information and true document management. You can access files directly from the course and manage one version of the file across multiple courses or sections. You can also manage who has permission to files, add comments and see who made changes.
Offers secure URL (web) links to share documents and collaborate on files with individuals both inside and outside the Bryant community, without having to email attachments.
Provides personal and shared storage folders for easier collaboration. Improves collaboration!
Document search to quickly locate files.
ePortfolio tool to enable students and faculty to collect and organize files and other digital content representative of their learning into custom Web pages. Students can grant access to anyone within or outside the University to view their ePortfolio. This makes it easy to share artifacts with potential employers, colleagues, friends and family.
e-Reserves for librarians to make digital version of copyright cleared reserved readings available directly in the course.
The Community Engagement System helps promote online collaboration and communication for research teams, students or faculty by offering online collaboration spaces.
Supports multiple organizational units with different needs - for example, different schools, departments, colleges on a single instance of Blackboard Learn providing a more customized user experience for every level.
Targeted messaging based on user role – student, teacher, first year, business major etc…
Notification dashboard is a rollup of all the courses students are in, allowing them to quickly see all their updates and key information in one location.
The system supports branding, optional guest access to your courses or content, opinion polling, advisor/tutor roles, tab grouping and a host of other features.
Outcomes Assessment
The Outcomes Assessment System provides a broad suite of tools supporting the entire cycle of assessment and evaluation with multiple measures of engagement.
This solution provides assessment management, authentic measurement instruments, reporting, tracking and collaboration tools.
You will be able to align activities and standards, incorporate rubrics, set objectives and goals to course delivery, measure the success of goals and standards with curriculum maps, set evidence collection aligned to institutional & program goals, provide artifact templates and more.
Click here for more information on Blackboard's Content Management and Community Engagement modules.
Click here for more information on Blackboard's Outcomes Assessment module.
The change to Blackboard 9.1 is complete! We wish to thank everyone for their support and patience during the upgrade.
If you wish to hone you Blackboard skills, a number of workshops will be offered by Bryant's Center for Teaching and Learning. Workshop topics include Discussion Boards, Assignments, TurnItIn, Testing, Respondus, Grade Center and many more. For a full listing of workshops topics and schedules, see the Center's website at www.bryant.edu/ctl. For any questions, comments or suggestions on the workshops, please contact Sam Grabelle (sgrabell@bryant.edu, x6039).
Sam is also the primary contact for faculty and staff Blackboard support. Students with Blackboard questions should contact Laptop Central (laptopcentral@bryant.edu, x6550).
Continue to check this site for additional information, tutorials and instructions that will assist you in getting the most out of Blackboard.
Blackboard Learn, is a much needed improvement to the user interface of Blackboard as well as enhanced features that have been added to allow students and instructors to be "engaged collaborators" in learning.
The new interface introduces "drag and drop" editing capabilities, which makes it easy to customize the look and feel of an instructor’s courses and employs "in-line" editing throughout (no more flipping to and from the Control Panel).
Drag and drop has also been incorporated into the file system - no more clicking through multiple screens and no more uploading one file at a time to your site! Keep an eye out for additional information and training material as the summer goes on. In the mean time, click this link to get started with the new Blackboard environment.