Faculty- Want an Alternative to TWEN? Learn Blackboard!

CSU’s Center for eLearning is offering the following training sessions for faculty:

Moving from Blackboard CE 8 to Learn 9.1 – August 3rd
The Moving from Blackboard CE 8 to Learn 9.1 workshop is geared toward seasoned online instructors and advanced users of Blackboard CE. This two-hour workshop will walk instructors through the necessary steps to transition your course from CE 8 to the new Learn 9.1 platform.

Blackboard Learn 9.1 Boot Camp – August 24th – 25th
The Blackboard Learn Boot Camp is a two-day workshop introducing instructors to designing your courses for online delivery. This hands-on workshop is trageted for instructors new to online course delivery and/or those interested in learning more about quality course design. Topics will cover best practices for course design as well as the basics of Blackboard Learn.

Visit eLearning’s web page for more information and online registration.

CSU’s Blackboard system automatically creates a course page for every class being taught at CSU, and automatically gives access to all the students registered for the course.  Blackboard has a nice layout and is easy for students to use.

Lexis has a version of Blackboard available too.  Ihad problems with it in the past, but Lexis has made improvements to the system.  One advantage over CSU’s  Blackboard system is that when you upload a document,  Lexis Blackboard can automatically create links to cases and other items on LexisNexis.   (This is also an advantage of TWEN).  Another nice feature of Lexis Blackboard is the plagiarism checker, SafeAssign.