Blackboard Blitz
Friday November 11, 2011
Harold Washington College – Room 407
1. 9:00 – 10:00
Topics covered include:
– managing the environment
-creating announcements
-posting documents, videos, external links, and more
-accessing Control Panel functions
2. 10:00 – 11:00
Topics covered include Basic Grade Center features:
-customizing the view
-posting grades and student comments
-weighting grades
– generating reports
-downloading the Grade Center
3. 11:00 –12:00
Topics covered include:
-Communications Features (email, discussion board, internal messages)
– Digital Assignment Function
-Turnitin.com (plagiarism detection software)
Lunch (on your own)
4. 1:00 – 2:30
Blackboard Open Lab – Practice: Work on your spring courses.
Click on the link below to reserve your seat. (max. 25)
Response Deadline – noon Thursday November 10
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BB_in_a_day_workshop
The Harold Lounge 
This is a great opporunity. Mark your calendars for two others.
Next Tuesday is CAST’s Technology Tools of the Trade 2. We may have one of the presentations on Bb uses and tricks. Let me know if that’s something you’d be interested in. The alternatives would be Google Docs or Prezi. The other topics are Animoto, Glogster and Course content in the cloud. This fast-paced sequel to TToT 1 will have the same “speed dating” format.
Also, Friday Dec. 2 will be CAST cookies and grading. We’ll open up 1046 for anyone who wants to hang out, eat cookies, drink coffee (or some other warm beverage),grade, write exams, chat, wrap gifts for your favorite out-going CAST coordinator, etc.
opporunity=opportunity oops