BLACKBOARD

                                         

Hello everyone! I hope you're doing well!

Today I'll be talking about a learning tool, Blackboard. So, what is Blackboard? Blackboard is a learning management system like Moodle. It’s a tool that allows faculty to add resources for students to access online. Resources are added into Blackboard courses for students to enhance teaching. It’s an flexible, learner achievement centered tool, that’s why you can use any theory to teach your online course. 

It's not free like Moodle, so it has a more user-friendly interface than Moodle.  It’s a paid service and its market is bigger , it can be used by government and schools. If you have money and also if you want it to be professional, you should use Blackboard.

 Online learning can be done in a synchronous or asynchronous environment. In a synchronous environment, students and instructors have instant or "real-time" interaction. Course members need to meet at a certain time and this may seem to be a negative aspect. Setting a clock, however, can help students keep track of everything as needed and manage their time. An example of a synchronous tool is Blackboard Collaborate. In Collaboration, your class can be gathered for a course. You can organize office hours, work sessions, improvised developing discussions and invite guest speakers.

  As you can see, there are various courses on Blackboard and you give roles to these courses. Roles control access to tools and content within a course. Each user is assigned a role for each course in which he or she participates. For example, a user with the role of ''Teaching Assistant'' on one course may have the ''Student'' role on another course.

 You can be sure that you can give all students the opportunity to succeed with Blackboard. You can set courses and change their contents.You can give your students homework, take exams, grade them, set goals for them and even track their performance.

                        

   There is much more to say about the Blackboard, but these are what I can tell you. If you want to get lost in the depths of the Blackboard and discover it yourself, here is the website; Blackboard Ally LMS 

I'll be giving information about Moodle on my next post! See you soon!