210. Blackboard Grade Center -- 22 Tutorial Videos

Using Camtasia I created 22 short videos (2-6 minutes each) covering nearly all the features in the new Blackboard 8.0 Grade Center.  The process went pretty quickly -- I did them all in 2 days.  They are not polished, but hopefully adequate.  I am very excited about the potential of these types of training videos for our faculty. 

Taylor is upgrading to Blackboard 8.0 over Christmas break.  We do not plan to hold any formal training sessions for the faculty for the new Grade Center.  Rather, they will be expected to watch these videos.  Of course, we will be prepared and more than happy to work with individual professors in answering questions and helping them figure out how to implement their particular grading schemes using Grade Center.

Here is how you can access the videos if you are interested:  Click here to get to our Blackboard.  After you enter username = guest and password = welcome you will find yourself in the "Resources for Bb Instructors" site.  Select the button labeled Grade Center 8.0 (bottom of list) and you will be able to access all 22 of the videos.

I think these will be helpful for people.  I searched the web and wasn't able to find much that was comparable.

Comments

[Bonnie Matthews]

I was unable to login with the guest account. I received this message:

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University of Richmond

[Gary Friesen]

Bonnie, try again. We made a change yesterday that broke the link. I have reposted it.

[Lauren Goldberg]

Hello Mr. Friesen,
My name is Lauren and I am a graduate student interested in universities that are making the greatest strides to cater to Millenial students. I am wondering if you have any insight into the most cutting-edge schools in this category? (Besides Taylor, of course!)
Thank you for this great resource, also!
Lauren
laurenjeana@yahoo.com

[Gary Friesen]

Ohio University and Ball State have done a lot with Second Life. Sarah "Intelligirl" Robbins is a doctoral student at Ball State and has done a lot of work in this area. You can google her to find out more. She is going to be the keynote speaker at the ICI Instructional Technology Summit to be held at Taylor University August 14. I first heard her speak at Educause.

[Wendy Johnson]

Hello,

I tried to log in to watch the tutorial videos for Bb 8.0 and an error message said:

Access Denied
This course is not available

Any chance the videos will be made available again?

Thank you,
Wendy Johnson
River Parishes Community College
Sorrento, Louisiana

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