Blackboard
Blackboard (Bb) is the learning management software used at CMU to provide an electronic, Internet-accessible site for your course and course materials. Using Blackboard to teach or supplement your course is like using a Web site with all your content except that Bb has additional interactive abilities, like chats, discussion boards and assessment tools. To see an overview of some Bb instructional capabilities, go to www.cel.cmich.edu/onlinelearning. To see a faculty tutorial of Blackboard, go to www.cmich.edu/Bb__CMU/Faculty_Tutorials.htm. To access CMU's Help Desk, click here: www.cmich.edu/Information_Technology/Getting_Help/Help_Desk.htm.
If you are an online course instructor, you will be provided with a Blackboard course shell that includes a collection of course content, activities and assessments as developed for online delivery consistent with the master course syllabus.
Policy Regarding Usage of Blackboard in ProfEd
ProfEd, in cooperation with CMU IT, provides a Blackboard course shell (Web site) for every course offered. You are not required to use Blackboard unless you are teaching an online course. This shell is intended to enhance communication between students and instructors. This document sets the recommended parameters for the use of Blackboard.
Faculty[1] may use Blackboard as a non-required supplement to their course. Faculty may not deliver all or part of their course online in lieu of meeting scheduled class time. Blackboard may be used to deliver a portion or portions of a course, creating a “hybrid” learning environment only with prior planning and approval from the appropriate CMU/ProfEd administrative bodies.
Considerations in Policy Development
- Students have chosen a face-to-face format and may not necessarily have the desire to, knowledge of, or access to the Internet to review or complete required assignments online.
- Intended use of Blackboard must be indicated on the course syllabus as it is constructed in the Syllabus Build Tool.
- Using Blackboard to replace face-to-face meeting time requires review and approval of the full curriculum review process, including the Academic Senate.
Appropriate Uses
- Instructors may post some or all of their course materials to Blackboard. All material posted to Blackboard must still comply with copyright laws.
- Instructors using course reserves are asked to contact the CMU Libraries' Course Reserves and Copyright Services office to obtain copyright permissions and for assistance loading items in to Blackboard.
- Instructors may provide a link from the Blackboard course shell to the SBT syllabus developed for the course.
- Instructors may use the testing, discussion board or other student features of Blackboard exclusively if conducted in a computer lab during regularly scheduled course times.
- Instructors should indicate intent to utilize Blackboard when developing the course syllabus in SBT.
- Instructors are strongly encouraged to use the email and grade center features of Blackboard.
For assistance with the following issues, please contact:
- Academic Issues: Your Academic Program Director
- Technical Issues: CMU helpdesk at 800-950-1144 x3662 or direct dial 989-774-3662.
- Administrator Support Issues: Jeremy Bond, Sue Parker, or Tyler Morkin at 800-950-1144 x. 2094, 2610, or 7512.
Blackboard Resources
- Blackboard @ CMU: Includes FAQs, student and faculty tutorials, background information, and policies for use
- Center for Instructional Design (CID): Provides online workshops for beginners and advanced users
[1] This policy does not apply to instructors teaching web-based distance learning courses. Online instructors are required to use the Blackboard learning management system to deliver courses.
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