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Teaching Tips
It's never too early to start planning for the next term, whether it's the course syllabus or the course materials themselves -- including your Bb course site. Each link below provides timely tips concerning the corresponding week of the semester.

• Week One - Use SPOT report to improve current course, block student access to copyrighted materials on last semester’s Blackboard courses, the first-day attendance policy for online courses, and assignments for recently enrolled on-campus students
• Week Two - Get to know your students
• Week Three - Use the Technology-Enhanced Classrooms
• Week Four - Deter unoriginal work
• Week Five - Help students maintain integrity in their papers and projects
• Week Six - Get feedback from your students at midterm
• Week Seven - Organize grading criteria in a rubric
• Week Eight - Integrate "active learning" into your class
• Week Nine - Place book orders online
• Week Ten- Use a course calendar to manage your workload
• Week Eleven - Design an online lesson for those days you have to cancel class
• Week Twelve - Increase your students' research skills
• Week Thirteen - Keep a teaching journal
• Week Fourteen - Begin drafting next semester’s syllabus
• Week Fifteen - Copy contents from your Bb course site into next semesters course site
  During the online request process for a new Course Site for next semester, you can ask to have the contents copied from your previous Course Sites into your new site. Login to this link, Step 4 will prompt you to "copy content from," and you will be provided a dropdown box to choose the previous course you want to have copied. Once your new course is available on your "HOME" page, review it for broken links. (Note: Discussion Board Forums or Group Pages - any area populated with your current students -- will not be copied over, so you will need to set up those areas again. But Gradebook items, assignments and other content, URLs, surveys, etc., will be copied over.) Remember to turn course availability OFF while you rebuild your site and turn it ON when it is "ready for prime time."

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