Creating Online Content

Blackboard Tools to Interact with Students

Several tools are available to enable you to communicate with your students in asynchronous and synchronous activities such as email, discussion board postings, and Blackboard Collaborate

• Post an announcement
• https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Interact/Announcements
• Create Discussion Boards
• https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Interact/Discussions
• Email all of some of your students
• https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Interact/Email
• Create Blogs or Wikis for students to share or collaborate
• https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Interact/Wikis
• https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Interact/Blogs
• Self & Peer Assessment Tool 
  • What are Self and Peer Assessments?
  • Preview a Self and Peer Assessment
• Web conferencing or video tools to record content, set up office hours or hold real time classes
  • Collaborate
  • MyMediasite
  • Webex
  • Zoom

Blackboard Tools to Create Content

Several tools are available to enable you to create content within Blackboard.

• Learning Modules a way to create an organized collection of course materials
• https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Course_Content/Create_Content/Create_Containers_for_Content/Create_Learning_Modules
• Types of Course Content
• https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Course_Content/Create_Content/Create_Course_Materials/Types_of_Course_Content
• There are many types of course materials that can be created: uploading files, videos, YouTube, images, audio files, tables, links to other websites
• https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Course_Content/Create_Content/Create_Course_Materials
• https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Course_Content/Create_Content/Create_Course_Materials/Work_With_Text
• Voice Thread
  • What is Voice Thread - Video 
  • Adding Voice Thread to your Course
  • Setting Up your Voice Thread Link
  • Waiting for Students to Submit Work (if you’ve created a graded assignment)
  • Grading Student Work (if you’ve created a graded assignment)
  • Creating a VoiceThread 

Mediasite to Create Content

If you would like to or re-use an existing presentation, please submit a request to https://cf.umaryland.edu/nursing/

MyMediasite to Create Content

My Mediasite allows you to record lectures on your own computer, outside of a classroom, and post them to your Blackboard site.

MyMediasite Resources

• Access https://mediasite.umaryland.edu/mediasite/mymediasite
• Note: If you encounter a message that you do not have permission to access, please submit a request to https://cf.umaryland.edu/nursing/
• How to Install
• Using the Software
• Upload a File