How to Download Assignments - Blackboard Help You can download assignment submissions to review them offline instead of reviewing them online. Choose to download all or only selected submissions as a single ZIP file. Unzip or expand the file to view the contents. Each submission is saved as a separate file. Windows and Mac computers have built-in capabilities to view and extract compressed ZIP file packages. How to Download Assignments In the Grade Center, locate the column for the assignment you want to download. In the pop-up window, click Save File and click OK. When you use the download function, usernames are included automatically in the file names for easy identification. If a student added an attachment, the downloaded ZIP file may contain two files for each student: the attached file and a TXT file produced by the Grade Center that contains information about the submission and student comments. The Assignment File Cleanup function allows you to select students and delete files associated with their submissions.
Teaching Notes for Using Discussions for Active Learning Teaching Notes for Using Discussions for Active Learning Objectives At the end of the session, participants will be able to: • describe what it is like to participate as a student in a whole class online discussion and a small group online discussion. • list strategies that facilitate online discussions that build community and enhance learning. • evaluate strategies that are most useful for specific goals • begin to develop questions and assignments that generate online interaction and critical thinking. • be able to explain what a rubric is, how it could help students and faculty in a discussion, and be able to identify some elements of an effective discussion rubric. Stage 1—Identify the problems in an Online Current Discussion Participants read the following online instructions before coming to class: You are group of faculty team teaching an interdisciplinary course of 50 students on “Current Issues in the .” In Class Exercise (20 minutes) • Review objectives. (20 minutes.) (15 minutes. A. B.
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Regrading tests Let's say we gave students a Blackboard test, the students have submitted their answers, and, we then discover that one of the questions has an incorrect right answer or point value. Happens all the time. In older versions of Blackboard, you'd have to manually grade every student's test again, and then, manually change the points for each question you messed up test by test. It took forever. And to edit the test, there are several different ways to get to it. All three take you to the same place and all three are going to show you this orangish yellow box at the top of the page, saying this test has a certain number of attempts. And click on Submit and Regrade. So, we showed you how to change the point value to make it extra credit, to give it full credit. Finally, to delete a question, basically in the test canvas, what you're going to do is click a check box to the left of the question, scroll up or down, and click Delete and Regrade.
Rubric for Online Discussion Board Participation Rubric for Asynchronous Discussion Participation Name___________________________________________________________ Asynchronous discussion enhances learning as you share your ideas, perspectives, and experiences with the class. You develop and refine your thoughts through the writing process, plus broaden your classmates’ understanding of the course content. Use the following feedback to improve the quality of your discussion contributions. Examples of postings that demonstrate higher levels of thinking: “Some common themes I see between your experiences and our textbook are….” For more information, contact Barbara Frey at baf30@pitt.edu Rubrics for Assessment Teachers who integrate technology into student activities and projects often ask us this question - “How do I grade it?” Fundamentally, assessing multimedia activities and projects is no different than evaluating traditional assignments, such as written essays. The primary distinctions between them are the unique features and divergent possibilities associated with their respective medium. For instance, a blog has a unique set of possibilities (such as hypertext, embedded video, interactive imagery, etc) vastly different than those of a notebook (paper and pen notes and drawings within a contained document). The first thing to realize is that you cannot separate the user from the device. iPads, Chromebooks, and tech tools themselves don’t demonstrate great learning; it’s about what students do with the technology that matters. The technology itself is simply neutral.
Viewing the student results and question item analysis So now that our students have completed our test, we need to review their grades. I'm going to switch over to a different course that actually contains some completed and submitted tests. This is going to be the third educational technology course. To view student test results, you need to open up the grade center. Either way it doesn't really matter. For most types of Blackboard quizzes Blackboard automatically grades the student's responses and enters a score. Blackboard can't grade essays, we have to grade them by hand. It's a kind of a nice way to make sure that you're unbiased in your grading. And there's a dash here in the essay. When I'm done, I can either hit Save and Next, or in this case, I'm going to Save and Exit. So quiz two didn't have any manually graded questions. What this is going to do is it's going to show you a copy of your quiz With an average score for each question, and answer distributions by percentage. Item Analysis is brand new in service pack 10 and later.
Three Scenarios for Engaging Students with Rubrics October 22, 2010 E-Coaching Tip 82 (#3 Fall 2010) Three Scenarios for Engaging Students with Rubrics How would you like to make one or two minor changes in your course design that would help your teaching go more smoothly while accelerating your students’ learning? What might this minor yet powerful change be? The change lays in the use of rubrics, scoring systems that clarify goals and communicate standards of student work. Here are three rubric scenarios. Getting Started with Rubrics You are likely using rubrics for one of your assignments. Should I share the rubric with my students ahead of time? These preparations make the use of rubrics go smoothly. Rubric Scenario One: Traditional Instructor Use This scenario is probably the most traditional use of rubrics. Rubric Scenario Two: Self Evaluation with Rubrics This scenario is a minor tweak on scenario one and invests more review responsibility with the learner. Rubric Scenario Three: Rubric Peer Review Types of Rubrics Conclusion