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| Introduction | |
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| Who Should Buy This Book? | |
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| Foolish Assumptions | |
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| What's in This Book? | |
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| Conventions Used in This Book | |
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| Icons Used in This Book | |
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| Where to Go from Here | |
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| What's Blackboard All About? | |
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| Your First Look at Blackboard | |
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| Logging In to Blackboard | |
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| Navigating Your Way Around Blackboard | |
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| Traversing the course Control Panel | |
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| Comparing Edit view and Display view | |
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| The Course-Development Process | |
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| A Quick-Start Guide: Get on the Fast Track with the Fab Four | |
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| Post your syllabus | |
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| Give online assignments | |
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| Set up your Gradebook | |
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| Start discussion topics | |
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| The bridge | |
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| Starting a Brand-New Course | |
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| Facilitating a Course | |
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| Ending the Party: Life in the After-Course | |
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| Easing into Blackboard | |
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| Got Learners? (Getting People into Your Course) | |
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| Managing Learner Accounts | |
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| Enrolling Users | |
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| "Who's in My Course?" | |
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| Deciding on a User's Role | |
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| Removing Users | |
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| Managing Groups | |
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| Adding users to a group | |
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| Listing users in a group | |
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| Removing users from a group | |
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| Making the Course Your Own | |
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| Managing the Course Menu | |
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| Choosing menu items | |
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| Customizing the look and feel of your course menu | |
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| Managing the Blackboard Tools | |
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| Surfing the sea of tools | |
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| Opting in or out of Blackboard tools | |
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| Choosing what the learner gets | |
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| Building Your Class Materials | |
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| Managing Content in a Content Area | |
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| Creating content in the Visual Text Box Editor | |
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| Adding content created elsewhere | |
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| Editing with ease by using the Display view and Edit view | |
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| Adding World Wide Web links | |
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| Organizing your content | |
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| Moving, copying, modifying, and deleting items | |
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| Determining Content Availability | |
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| All content, all the time | |
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| Timing the release of content | |
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| Exploring Adaptive Release of Content | |
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| Connecting with Learners | |
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| Distinguishing Communication Types | |
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| Communicating Nonverbally Online | |
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| Making Announcements | |
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| Giving Out Your Contact Information | |
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| Posting your profile | |
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| Adding and managing multiple profiles | |
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| Conducting Online Asynchronous Discussions | |
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| Setting up discussion forums | |
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| Posting and replying to threads | |
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| Collecting, locking, and removing threads | |
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| Archiving old discussions | |
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| Chatting with Learners | |
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| Joining and adding collaboration sessions | |
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| The Virtual Classroom | |
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| Chat | |
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| Collaboration session | |
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| Sending E-Mail | |
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| Sending e-mail by using the All options | |
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| Sending e-mail by using the Single and Select options | |
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| Delivering Messages (No, Not E-Mail!) | |
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| Creating messages | |
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| Viewing and managing messages | |
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| Earning Your Blackboard Black Belt | |
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| Getting the Most from Blackboard | |
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| Staying on Track with the Course Calendar | |
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| Assigning Tasks | |
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| Doling out the work | |
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| Ensuring learner progress | |
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| Collecting Files with the Digital Dropbox | |
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| Adding and sending files | |
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| Removing a file | |
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| Using Glossary Manager | |
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| Entering terms | |
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| Uploading Glossary terms | |
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| Downloading the Glossary | |
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| Assessing Learner Progress | |
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| Creating and Deploying Tests | |
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| Establishing the test framework and its settings | |
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| Understanding common elements in test questions | |
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| Taking a Look at Question Types | |
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| Calculated formula | |
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| Calculated numeric | |
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| Either/Or or True/False | |
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| Essay or short answer | |
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| File response | |
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| Fill in multiple blanks | |
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| Fill in the blank | |
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| Hot spot | |
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| Jumbled sentence | |
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| Matching | |
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| Multiple answer or multiple choice | |
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| Opinion scale or Likert | |
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| Ordering | |
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| Quiz Bowl | |
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| Using questions from a pool or another test | |
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| Using questions from a text file | |
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| Making changes to questions and the question display order | |
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| Using the Pool Manager | |
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| Sharing test questions among your Blackboard courses | |
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| Using Tests in Blackboard | |
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| Deploying a test | |
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| Viewing test results | |
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| Removing a test | |
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| Ensuring test security | |
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| Creating and Using Surveys | |
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| Deploying a survey | |
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| Viewing survey results | |
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| Clearing a learner's survey attempt | |
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| Removing a survey | |
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| Discovering the Joys of the Assignment Manager | |
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| Creating assignments | |
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| Providing feedback to learners | |
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| Downloading assignments in bulk | |
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| Clearing a learner's assignment in the Gradebook | |
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| Using Other Blackboard Tools for Assessment Purposes | |
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| Discussions | |
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| Chat assessments | |
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| Learner group work | |
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| Course Implementation | |
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| Managing Your Gradebook | |
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| Creating graded items | |
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| Managing items | |
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| Making your Gradebook settings | |
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| Determining whether you're "weighting" too long | |
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| Downloading and uploading grades | |
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| Entering grades manually | |
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| Sorting and filtering | |
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| Viewing the Gradebook differently | |
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| Taking Advantage of the Performance Dashboard | |
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| Using Course Statistics | |
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| Filtering Course Statistics | |
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| Choosing your reports | |
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| Using the Course Statistics information | |
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| Tracking Views | |
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| Discovering tracking information | |
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| Sharing tracking info with learners | |
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| Course Management | |
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| Reducing, Reusing, and Recycling Your Course | |
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| Copying a Course, Copying a Course | |
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| Copying into a new course | |
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| Copying into an existing course | |
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| Making an exact copy | |
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| Exporting and Importing the Goods | |
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| Exporting a course | |
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| Importing a package | |
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| Creating an Archive | |
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| The Part of Tens | |
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| Ten Superimportant "Think Abouts" for Building Your Course | |
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| Where Are Your Learners: At a Distance or with You? | |
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| What Are the Learning Styles of Your Learners? | |
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| What Do Learners Know about Your Content before They Arrive in Class? | |
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| What Are Your Learning Goals and Objectives? | |
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| How Is Your Course Organized? | |
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| How Accessible Are You to Your Learners? | |
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| How Do You Communicate with Learners? | |
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| How Do You Assess Your Learners? | |
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| Ten Strategies for Organizing an Outstanding Course in Blackboard | |
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| Plan, Plan, and Then Plan Some More | |
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| Get to Know Blackboard Inside and Out | |
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| Consider Learners' First Impression of Your Blackboard Course | |
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| Brainstorm about Your Course Structure | |
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| Organize It! | |
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| Create Your Course Structure | |
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| Develop Your Course | |
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| Take Your Course for a Test-Drive | |
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| Make Adjustments | |
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| Plan, Plan, and Then Plan Some More (Reprise) | |
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| Ten Ways to Keep Learners Involved by Using Blackboard Communication Features | |
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| Let Learners Practice with Communication Tools Early in the Course | |
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| Put Learners in Charge (Sort of) | |
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| Use a Rubric to Grade Discussion Forum Postings | |
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| Provide a Model "Excellent Posting" | |
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| Determine Your Presence in Discussion Forums | |
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| Use Disagreements or Conflicts As Teachable Moments | |
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| Hold Learners Accountable for Topics Discussed within Blackboard | |
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| Use the Blackboard Collaboration Tools for Online Office Hours | |
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| Ask Questions of Specific Learners During Collaboration Sessions | |
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| Remember the Rules of Online Engagement | |
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| Ten Ways to Assess Learning | |
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| Create Online Tests for Frequent Self-Assessment | |
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| Post Assignments to the Discussion Forums | |
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| Use a Virtual Classroom or Chat for "Oral Exams" | |
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| Set Up Learner Groups for Projects | |
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| Use a Rubric for Discussion Forum Postings | |
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| Have Learners Come Up with Test Questions | |
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| Use Adaptive Release to Structure Your Courses | |
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| Require Learners to Submit Assignments in Progressive Sections | |
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| Gather "Muddiest Point" or "One-Minute" Papers with Messaging or E-Mail | |
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| Collect Long-Term Reflections with Journals | |
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| Ten Questions to Ask Your Blackboard System Administrator | |
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| "How Do I Generate a Blackboard Course?" | |
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| "How Do Learners Gain Access to My Blackboard Course?" | |
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| "What's the Policy Regarding Access to My Blackboard Course?" | |
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| "How Far in Advance Will Learners Have Access to My Course?" | |
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| "How Do My Learners Change Their E-Mail Addresses in the Blackboard System?" | |
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| "How Long After the Semester Ends Will Learners Have Access to My Course?" | |
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| "Can I Use One Blackboard Course for Multiple Sections of the Same Course?" | |
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| "What Happens to My Blackboard Course at the End of the Semester?" | |
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| "Does My Blackboard Course Have a Maximum Size?" | |
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| "If I Leave This Institution, Can I Take My Blackboard Course with Me?" | |
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| Ten Things to Look Forward to in Blackboard Learning System 7.1 | |
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| A Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform Visual Text Box Editor | |
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| An Extra-Credit Option in Tests | |
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| Multiple Attempts in the Gradebook | |
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| An Enhanced Discussion Board | |
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| The Availability of Discussion Board Statistics | |
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| Discussion Board Grading | |
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| Customized Feedback for Tests | |
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| Test and Survey Managers Import and Export | |
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| Submission Reports for Verification | |
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| New Language Packs | |
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| Appendixes | |
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| Real-Life Issues in Teaching with Technology | |
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| Who Owns Your Stuff? | |
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| Copyright Issues | |
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| Online Privacy Rights | |
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| Academic Dishonesty | |
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| An Overview of the Blackboard Content System | |
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| Managing Files and Content | |
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| Using Versioning to Keep Track of Files | |
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| Putting e-Portfolios to Good Use | |
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| Tracking Activity Progress with Workflow | |
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| Using Collaborative, Web-Enabled File Storage | |
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| Cataloging Learning Objects | |
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| Searching for Shared Files, Folders, and E-Portfolios | |
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| Gaining Library Know-How through E-Reserves | |
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| A Blackboard Course-Building Checklist | |
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| Announcements (refer to Chapter 6) | |
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| Faculty and staff information (refer to Chapter 6) | |
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| Syllabus (refer to Chapter 4) | |
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| Course content (refer to Chapter 5) | |
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| Assessment (refer to Chapter 8) | |
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| Communication (refer to Chapter 6) | |
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| Evaluation (refer to Chapter 8) | |
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| Additional Resources on the Web | |
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| Help from the Folks at Blackboard, Inc. | |
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| Course Materials from Around the Web | |
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| Good Practices for Teaching Online | |
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| Necessary Knowledge about Online Copyright Protection | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |