Blackboard Learn™ for the Apple iPhone™ and iPod® Touch mobile digital devices will be available from 26 March 2009, at no cost from the Apple iTunes® App Store.
Similar to the integration with the Facebook® platform, Blackboard Learn for the Apple iPhone is enabled through the Blackboard Sync central service.
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There is a copy of the standard school of Biological Sciences end of module questionnaire available to use on Blackboard as an online survey. Contact Jo Badge to have a copy added to your course site.
Once the survey has been added, you can customise the questions to include the names of the lecturers on the course. Then you can set the survey to become available to students automatically on any given date.
This short video demonstrates how to add the survey, customise it and make it available.
A Quick video showing how to access the results of a Module survey in Blackboard.
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How to use the data gathered on a Blackboard survey for a module questionnaire and represent answers as scores not percentages.
The School of Biological Sciences standard end of module questionnaire is available as a blackboard survey which can be customised for your course. Contact Jo Badge to get a copy for your course.
Once the module has ended and the survey has been completed by as many students as possible, you can access the data via the gradebook.
CONTROL PANEL> GRADEBOOK
You will see a column for the module questionnaire (subtitled ’survey’). A green tick will appear for every student that has completed the questionnaire and submitted it. A padlock icon indicates that the student has looked at, but not completed the questionnaire. You will not be able to retrieve partial data from these attempts, so contact the students and ask them to finish the survey.
Click on heading for the column for the module questionnaire (subtitled ’survey’), then choose ‘ASSESSMENT ATTEMPT DETAILS’. This will show you how many students answered the survey and give percentage scores for each answer.
assessment attempt details
For simplicity and a record of the survey this page can be printed off.
Alternatively, if you wish to download the raw data for the survey, you can manipulate the results in Excel to produce an overall score out of 5 for each question.
From the GRADEBOOK, click on heading for the column for the module questionnaire (subtitled ’survey’), then choose ‘DOWNLOAD RESULTS’. Save the file to your computer.
download survey
Open the downloaded results in Excel. Copy and paste the formulas from the example spreadsheet into your dataset for each question.
A student view account can be created for a user if one doesn’t already exist. The standard format for the account is ‘cfsUsername_s’, so for a CFS account of ‘abc1’, the student view account will be ‘abc1_s’. The user needs to enter a password (and a password confirmation) and they also have the option of enrolling the account as a student onto the current course.
If a student view account already exists, the user has the option to modify the password.
AVAILABILITY AND RESTRICTIONS
The tool will be available from Tuesday 9th December. The tool is only available for users with a course role of Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Grader or Course Builder.
TO ACCESS THE TOOL
To access the tool please follow this Blackboard menu route: COURSE SITE > CONTROL PANEL > Course Tools Section > STUDENT VIEW ACCOUNT
End of module surveys can be carried out on Blackboard. If you wish to use a module survey that already exists on Blackboard course on a new module, you can export the existing survey and import it into the new course.
CONTROL PANEL>SURVEY MANAGER> EXPORT
export survey from module manager
The survey will then be packaged as a zip file which you can download to your computer.
In the new course:
CONTROL PANEL>SURVEY MANAGER> IMPORT
import module survey into new course
Browse to find the module survey that you downloaded and import it.
Students will soon be able to pay for printing online using a debit or credit card and print using the wireless network service. From on Tuesday, 11 November 2008 the changes to the open access printing areas will become live. Full information available on the ITS website.
The software that supports the electronic voting system, (also known as ‘clickers’ or ‘who wants to be a millionaire?’) is now available on CFS. Turning Point 2008 can be used to write voting questions on any CFS PC in a special version of PowerPoint (2007 or 2003). The drivers to enable voting in teaching rooms, computer rooms and labs are being installed across campus. All first year BS, MB, MG and MP students now have handsets for the full academic year. So if you are conducting voting with first years, all that is now needed is a small USB receiver connected to the presenting machine. Three voting receivers and an additional 115 handsets are available for teaching use with other undergraduate or postgraduate students.
Turning point 2008
An online form is available to book the equipment and you can see you booking in the online calendar.
More supporting information on how to use the system, including user guides, booking information, ideas for using voting in your teaching are available on Jo Badge’s support site.
To re-use a Turnitin Assignment for the new academic year:
Go to the CONTROL PANEL
click on TURNITINUK ASSIGNMENTS (listed on the left hand side under ‘course tools’
CLICK ON VIEW
You will now see the assignment inbox. If any originality reports were used from the previous year in disciplinary matters, you must download a copy and save it to your machine, as these will be deleted when you renew the assignment.
From the assignment inbox, select the originality report in question and open it
click on the originality report to open it
Once open, click on the ‘download’ icon to collect a copy of the report in html
download the file
Once all the reports required have been collected, you can update the assignment settings to renew the dates and perform a roster sync to list the current students in the assignment box. Full instructions on how to do this are in a related post : updating Turnitin assignments
To update a Turnitin Assignment for a new academic year, you need to change the date settings that govern when the item appears on Blackboard and the deadline for work to be handed in.
Go to the CONTROL PANEL
click on TURNITINUK ASSIGNMENTS (listed on the left hand side under ‘course tools’
click on view
click VIEW
You will then see the assignment inbox, click on ‘edit assignment’
assignment inbox: click on 'edit assignment'
This will bring up an editing panel, where you can reset the dates for the assignment to appear (start date) the deadline for the work to be handed in (due date). Remember to set the post date at any date after the due date (this is not a feature we use but the dates need to be set in this way for Turnitin to accept the assignment). alter the dates as required and remember to alter any date information in the instructions section. Click on submit when you are finished.
edit assignment
Finally, make sure the students are listed in the assignment inbox, otherwise they may be prevented from being able to submit their work. To do this, click the roster sync button on the assignment inbox:
click roster sync
