A G U I D E T O T H E P E R S O N A L I T Y O F W E B C T ’ S
S U C C E S S O R , B L A C K B O A R D L E A R N 9

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Navigating Ted
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Imported Courses from WebCT
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New Courses
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Content Tools
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Collaboration & Communication Tools
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Tests, Assignments, and Grades

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Open links in new tabs! (Mostly)
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Don’t get logged out every 15 minutes
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Java only required for Chat/Virtual
Classroom tool
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No Browser Check
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Drag to re-order list items

When you request a course website:
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We will migrate the most recent offering of your course to Blackboard
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A new blank course site will be created for your current class
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You may choose to import as much content as you like
Watch a demonstration video: http://iwdc.ucsd.edu/ted/
¡   click Copy Content from an Imported WebCT site

Build Tab
Course Menu
Syllabus
Course Content
Instructor/
Designer Tools
Gradebook,
Student Submissions
Manage Course

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Course menu includes a default set of common locations
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All course tools available, via Tools link
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Organization
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Add tools, content area to Menu
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Can add as many Content areas as desired
Add files, folders, and tools to Content
Areas
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When Edit Mode is off, you see the same items students see
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Items hidden from students may be used in
Edit Mode

Files, folders, assignments, and other tools listed along page
•   Consistent look between all courses

With Edit Mode on, buttons appear allowing you to add content to the page.

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From the Build Content menu, select File
Select the file from your computer

From the Content page, add links to Tests,
Assignments,
Discussions, and other class tools.
For all tools (except Assignments)
Select Tool
Type
Select
<NEW> or
Existing
Set Up Tool
Options
Select New or
<Existing>
Set Up
Link
Options

•   As with
WebCT, Build content designed to be viewed in a sequential order
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New Feature:
Enforce sequential viewing order

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WebCT’s Mail tool
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Messages stayed inside the class website
A copy of the content was emailed to students, but they had to return to
WebCT to reply
Replaced by two tools with complementary features:
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Messages : Send a message inside Blackboard
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Maintains a stand-alone mailbox, with Inbox, Sent folders
Student not notified via email
Used as equivalent to Mail in classes imported from WebCT
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Email : Sends a regular email to students
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Once the message is sent, no involvement in Blackboard
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No Sent folder to maintain history of sent messages
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No notification to students in Blackboard
Email appears to come from your email address, so students can reply directly to message

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Available on Tools page
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… or add directly to the Course Menu
Check this if you want students to use the tool

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Topics are organized in Forums. Click Create
Forum to add a Forum for each distinct topic of conversation (Papers, Tests, Administrative)
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Instructor may choose to moderate posts
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Students may opt to subscribe to forums, to receive an email notification when a new message is posted
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No longer allows Forums to be organized into Categories

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Provides a place for individuals or groups to share information and opinions with the class
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Journal: Record of progress and notes; only the instructors may respond
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Blog: Publish opinions or progress, where others in the course may post feedback comments
Easier to find in Ted: Add via Add Interactive Tool , making them easier to find and add to your course

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Provides a place for students to work together as a class or in groups to create content
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Completely contained within Ted
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No longer requires using a separate tool on a separate website
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Easily set up separate private spaces for groups
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Integrated with grading
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Assists you evaluating individual students’ contributions

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Chat: Basic messaging
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Virtual Classroom:
Includes whiteboard and other features
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Present other class content to viewers in chat window
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Hand-raising
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Breakout sessions

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More basic
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Fewer options for visibility and viewing
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No recurring events
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As with the Email tool: Listed on Tools page, may be added to Course Menu

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Now called a Test or Survey
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Includes many new question types
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Less chance to lose students’ responses
Generally a long list of reduced features (most are rarely-used customizations)
Grading moved to Grade Center

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Functionality largely unchanged
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Student attaches file to submission
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Instructor decides whether to allow “drafts”
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Instructor may return file with grade
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Grading moved to
Grade Center

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Little changed WebCT
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Use TurnItIn inside WebCT window without a separate username/password
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No confusing Settings page, as in
WebCT’s Build tab
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Instructor may submit on behalf of a student by clicking link to assignment
View Assignment Inbox from
Control Panel > Course Tools
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Grading moved to Grade Center

Student i>Clicker registration is identical to WebCT:
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Instructors add a Registration tool to a Content page
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Students click Registration tool, and type in their i>Clicker ID
May take up to a minute to load!
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Instructor then uses i>Grader tool to synchronize registrations
For more information, visit: http://iwdc.ucsd.edu/iclicker

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Consolidates grade options to one place
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In WebCT, there might be many different places where you could set a column as Released to Students
Easier column types
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All columns “scores”, but can be displayed as
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Number
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Percent (relative to points possible)
Letter, according to “schema” you define
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Score may be entered as letter or number
No more Histogram in statistics
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Does have text chart of grade distribution
No more Grading Forms
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Can associate a Rubric with an assignment, but does not use it to help with grading

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Shows Ungraded Tests, Assignments, and TurnItIn assignments
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For Tests and Assignments, may choose
“Grade Anonymously” to grade all students’ submissions in random order, with student’s name hidden during grading process

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More spreadsheet-like
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Click on a grade to make changes in the same window
Use arrows to move to next student
Show only interesting columns
Upload/Download
Spreadsheet
Weighted columns
Quicker access to column settings
Know at a glance what students see
Click on a score to edit in place
Highlights
To-Do Items

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Much easier to create a weighted score
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Easy to exempt a student from an assignment, so the weighted score ignores that assignment

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… about something covered too quickly?
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… something you use a lot in WebCT?
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… something you wish WebCT did differently?

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More information
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Email: iwdc@ucsd.edu
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Phone: x
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Frequently Answered Questions: http://iwdc.ucsd.edu/ted
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This will grow as we get more questions – feel free to contact us!
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Resources from Blackboard: Look for the
Instructor & Designer Resources - Ted Training class when you log in to http://ted.ucsd.edu