Blackboard Resources


Blackboard (Bb) is the course 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 and discussion boards. Bb resources can be found at the following CMU sites:
 

 

Backup Course Contents and Gradebooks

 

Blackboard 7.1 Support Material

 

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
  1. 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.
  2. Intended use of Blackboard must be indicated on the course syllabus as it is constructed in the Syllabus Build Tool.
  3. 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

Contact Information


[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.