Discover Best Practices
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
Once you have requested a course site for the current or upcoming terms, you can copy content by returning to the Blackboard Site Request Home Page and clicking the Copy button for the newly created course. You will need to have a role of Instructor, Course Builder or TA in both the source and destination course sites. For further information, please login to the Bb Site Request Tool.
