Teaching with Blackboard
Moving your face-to-face lectures to an online setting can be challenging, but we have resources to make the transition easier.
Blackboard Learn course guides and resources
Blackboard Learn is the learning management system (LMS) that we use at Mayo Clinic to deliver online courses. Use Blackboard as a place to house your syllabus, reading materials, discussion boards, assignments and quizzes, grades, references, resources, and more.
Engagement tools
Explore the many tools to help keep your learners engaged in virtual course material.
Adding interactive modules to Blackboard (SCORM)
Storyline 360, Articulate Rise, and Captivate are tools that help you create engaging and interactive eLearning content. With these, you can create slideshows and embed videos for a richer online learning experience. SCORM is a set of technical standards for eLearning products. It provides the communication method and data models that allow eLearning content and LMSs to work together.
- Inserting streaming video into Storyline 360
- SCORM: Uploading to Blackboard
- Storyline publish setting for Blackboard
Blackboard Learn Interactive Tools offers tools for learners to self-reflect, collaborate, and communicate. Students can share ideas and gather feedback using discussion boards, blogs, and journals. Wiki tools provide collaborative spaces where students can work together and build upon each other’s contributions.
Kaltura
Deliver your lecture online with Blackboard’s Kaltura tool. Use Kaltura Media to create video content. With Kaltura Media, you can upload files, create webcam recordings, or screen captures for your course.
- Adding Kaltura Media to a content area in your Blackboard course media gallery
- Adding Kaltura Media to your Blackboard course media gallery
- Kaltura playlist in Blackboard
- Kaltura help site: Video exchange
- Video Exchange 101
- Video Exchange 102
TurningPoint
Use TurningPoint to create online scheduled assessments, conduct polls, and manage results entirely online. TurningPoint is integrated into Blackboard.
VoiceThread
Use VoiceThread to upload, share and discuss documents, presentations, images, audio files, and videos. Users can comment on VoiceThread slides using the microphone, webcam, text, phone, or audio-file upload. VoiceThread is integrated into Blackboard.
Other interactivity tools
- FlipGrid: Free video discussion board application (externally supported)
- Screen-O-Matic: Free screen recording web application (externally supported)
- Open Board: Free whiteboard application (externally supported)
Instructional strategy and best practice
- Blended Learning — The Fundamentals (Educator’s Central podcast)
- Modules … A Piece of Cake, Right!? (Educator’s Central podcast)
- Modules, Make it Count (Educator’s Central podcast)
- PIVOT MedEd faculty resources (external website)
- Teach Remotely — Best Practices (Harvard University)
- Teaching in the Age of COVID 19 — Pros and Cons of Popular Online Tools (infographic)
- Tips for Using Your Phone to Record Video (two-minute video)
- Establishing Online Learning Environments (infographic)
- How to Promote Active Learning in a Digital Classroom (infographic)
- How to Use Discussion Boards (University of Huddersfield)
- Humor & Pedagogy: Funny is Not a 4-Letter Word … it’s 5 (EP:06) (podcast)
- Learning Styles — Unpacking the Myth (EP:12) (podcast)
- Promoting Learner Engagement Online (infographic)
- Reflecting on Reflection — The Value of Making Meaning (EP:07) (podcast)
- Sticky Learning — What Binge Watching Teaches Us About the Goldfish Myth (EP:08) (podcast)
- Tips for Online Learning Success (infographic)
- Virtual Breakout Rooms — When to Use It and When Not To (Learning Solutions Magazine)