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Blackboard is a Learning Management System (LMS) that supports learning by extending the face-to-face learning environment to online learning spaces and providing virtual classrooms for distance learning courses.
How do I evaluate a blended or online course?
If UNSW's Course and Teaching Evaluation Improvement system (CATEI) does not gather sufficiently detailed feedback from students about the online activities, you may wish to:
The process of designing blended and online courses is covered in this section of the site. General information on Setting Up and Revising Curriculum is available in the Curriculum Design area of this site.
Planning blended and online courses
See Planning Blended and Online Courses for the following information on the planning process:
The following pages will help you plan online activities and assessment.
Using other people's work in your course
Original works and other subject matter are automatically given copyright protections under Australian law. Copyright law is intended to provide a balance between rewarding creators for the use of their works and allowing users reasonable access to those works.
When setting up your online content, make it accessible for all people. Ensure that students using assistive technologies can access all the learning materials you include in a course. For maximum accessibility of your material to students of all degrees of ability, including those with a sensory or cognitive disability, keep all elements of your online course simple, concise and consistent within the course.
Pages that will help you create your Blackboard course structure:
When to review your design
Review your online course design at several points to ensure that it is achieving the desired outcomes. The Design Review Checklist on this page is a basic reviewing tool, but we advise you to carry out additional student testing of your site before you make it available to all your students.
Some key stages when you should review your course design are:
If you are not organised and clear about your expectations, your online teaching can take up a lot of your time. Here are some strategies that will help you control the amount of time you spend online.
Your students value highly any feedback you give them on work completed throughout the course. Feedback should be constructive, meaningful and timely if it is to be useful, but the less time you have available, the less likely it is that you will be able to respond with such good quality feedback. Learning management system tools can help you deliver comprehensive feedback and save time.