in this video you will learn how to use blackboard which is a learning
management system to teach online courses so let's get started hello my
name is Tahir and I make videos about the technology which teachers and students
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new video so now I will go on my computer and I will show you how to get
started with the blackboard which is the world leading learning management system
so in order to access blackboard interface you have to create an account
on course sites comm and if you want a teacher access then you have to create a
teacher account you can also create a student account and this is my teacher
account here so when you log in you will see this interface here on the left hand
side you have various features available to you for example on this institution
page you can see that there are some resources for educators and instructors
for example recently blackboard has started a new user interface they call
it ultra previously they were using the classical or the original interface and
those instructors who are migrating from original course sites to this ultra
sites they have some FA cues for them there are some tutorial videos as well
then in the Activity Stream as you can see here that you have all the actions
for all of your courses up to a minute so these this is what is happening in
your courses you can have a look at this and then there are other tools such as
calendar you can send messages or grades and there are some content tools here so
for example portfolios and content collections if you click on content
collection you will see some course contents and institution contents and
other things here so let's go back and we go straight into the courses now so
if you click on courses so these are some dummy courses available
here five of them these colorful are in new ultra
interface and these are some of the classical interface courses so let's
start from this first one one thing I would like to mention that this is a
very secure LMS blackboard because they have three different level of protection
one is at the administrator level then one is at the course level and then one
is at the teacher level or the instructor level so it's a very secure
system and once you are in this course page you can if you look at the top
right side you have access to some of the tools so in this new ultra user
interface they have organized this nicely on the right-hand side as you can
see that you can add contents then that you have calendar discussion boards red
books you can send messages and analytics so all these tools are
available to you if you click on this roster here you can add students by
clicking on this plus button you if you click plus button then you will be
presented with this dialog box and you can put a student email here and then
when you send this student will get a message this is the preview of that
message they will receive a message that you have invited the student and then
they can enroll in in the course so it's a very simple process they can they will
get a link and they can enroll in in the course then you have the ability to
create course groups and then course room course room is just like a chat
room if you want to take some live session so you can create a session and
then you can edit the settings of those sessions for example if you want to
allow the students to upload the video contents or to turn on their my car to
turn on their webcam you can put all these settings into your sessions here
and then when they when you have created a session so they can join the session
so let me join a session so just click on course room
then you will be presented with this because there is no one inside the room
but here you can see that they can turn on their mics if you allow them they can
turn on their webcam if you allow them to use it in your settings or if you
normally you allow only to raise hands so they can just raise hands and they
can type their question just like in any chat room and then you can reply to them
when you are taking a live session for example if it's a blended type of
delivery it's a very useful feature similarly you can create a attendance
and that you can also put this attendance as part of the grading of the
students and this will be this will appear in their grading similarly you
can create announcements if you want to announce something about your course a
lot of tools available here this is one of the popular LMS on the market it's a
little bit pricey but it has a lot of features so now let's look at the
original interface so I just click on one of my courses which are just dummy
courses and when this is on the right hand side when this edit mode is on so
you have the access to teacher controls as you can see that there are a lot of
course tools available in blackboard you may not use all of these tools in all of
your courses but these are very handy to have you also have customization options
but this all depends on your institution because the institution has the control
sometimes for example an institute does not want to include YouTube videos in
your contents so let's say that you are teaching in a primary school where the
Institute does not want you to allow links to the YouTube videos so this type
of control at the institution level is also important to understand so I will
discuss these details if I make in future any class on this particular LMS
so this was a brief introduction to some of the features of Blackboard we have
seen both ultra and the original interfaces
and I hope that you will find this useful so I hope you liked this video if
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watching see you next time