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Blackboard Resources
Blackboard (Bb) is CMU’s selected learning management system. A Bb course site,
or shell, is automatically created for every CMU course whether offered in Mt.
Pleasant, online, at a location elsewhere in the United States or abroad. Using
Blackboard to conduct or supplement your course allows for increased
communication, electronic delivery of content and materials and online
assessment, assignment submission, grading and feedback. Additional information
regarding Bb can be found by following the links below:
Backup Course Contents and Gradebooks
Policy Regarding Usage of Blackboard in ProfEd
ProfEd, in cooperation with CMU IT, provides a Blackboard course shell (Web
site) for every course offered. 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 requiring course reserves are required to post electronic versions
of the course reserve items in the Blackboard course as provided by the CMU
Copyright Office.
- 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 book features of Blackboard
Contact Information
- 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 or
Sue
Parker at 800-950-1144 x. 2094 or 2610.
[1] This policy does not apply to
instructors teaching web-based distance learning courses. Online instructors are
required to use the Blackboard course management system to deliver courses.